Multiple spindle bush hog

[High Cotton]

Has any one had one that blades started hitting each other. At first I thought the shaft had some how jumped a tooth. Now I think the blades and or bolts are worn allowing them to hit one another. Has this happened to any one else?

 

[dun]

Had bad bearing that caused on side ro wabble and hit the other, I chaneged the way they were indexed on one side so that the baldes were 180 out and that solved it for a while. Had to move one gear in the gear box to do it.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Any sign that a gear box has been took a part. What brand is it??

 

[cowski]

it needs to be timed correctly. l-

 

[High Cotton]

It's a woods 10ft. It seemed like it was timed right when it started hitting. The spindles were perpendicular to one another. I did as Dun suggested. Thanks Dun. It worked for now. The gear boxes looked fine. The only thing that I noticed was that the 6 splined shaft on one gear box was in pretty bad shape. The splines were pretty mangled. The only thing that I can think of is someone lost the bolt that holds the flange some time in the past.

 

[lucky7chief]

We have a 10 ft Bush Hog 3210. It has rubber dampeners on the cross shafts that will slip. That will cause the blades to get out of time. I think the point is there needs to be some way to handle a hit on one side. There is only one main clutch. I don't care for it and would never have another brush hog with the cross shafts.