I know it didn't show up in the video. But I used almost a whole can of PB blaster on this over both of my attempts to free this up. And it didn't seem to help. Persistence seemed to be the winning factor.
Evan, you mentioned almost quitting to free up that brush hog wheel, but I have determined there aint no quit in your dna, because whenever you encounter a problem, you always find a solution, nice going dude, I always enjoy your videos
all the energy of the hammer blow is absorbed by the bounce. if you just had it stable on wood blocks or something solid you could hammer that right out no problem...
When you started twisting it with that bar I knew you had it on the run! Makes me think maybe I ought to service up my brush hog haha! Nice shirt you got there!
I noticed the grease zerk was missing on my cousin's brush hog last year. I couldn't get a new one in at first and noticed there were no threads. When I couldn't get a tap in, I realized the hole didn't go all the way through. So I drilled it out, tapped it, installed a zerk, and greased it.
I just want to say that I am glad you show all of the events that don't go as planned and the mistakes you've made over the years. It makes it easier for all of us to see that you have they same struggles and you may not always have a real good clue as how to fix something or accomplish a task. But you keep going and persevere. Gives the rest of us newbies hope.
Put a couple caps of brake fluid in you gearbox when adding fluid. If the seal is not cut it will swell it up and stop the leak. Do not add more than 2 caps ful each time it is filled up. That is a old mechanics trick.
Hi Evan, it was so satisfying when that shaft came out! I spent half a day removing a bent shaft on the Super C this week, and there's nothing like the feeling when it finally pops loose.
I am so impressed that you never give up when you’re trying to fix your Appliances and equipment❣️❣️❣️❣️😊😊😊😊 Really proud of you and I love your videos. Keep up the good work in always look forward to the next one❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️♥️♥️♥️♥️ congratulations on getting the brush hog fixed. (I was beginning to wonder if you weren’t going to get it done. I love your determination)!!!!!!
Hey Evan, We always just filled our brushhogs with grease, when they started leaking, It works great and never had a fail. I worked for the township and it was what I was taught many years ago. lol
Evan, Great Job again !! You're so good at figuring out how to fix that Brush Hog...I would have to get all my neighbors over to help and that would cost at least one case of beer and about 8 hours !!! You are great fixing up your farm...I look forward to your videos ....so interesting !!! Thank You...
Evan, I am amazed at how you did not quit and you kept after the shaft and made it work. You always find a way to fix whatever you are working on and that take a lot of patience of knowledge, but you do what you have to do and fix it.
Hey Evan thanks for the video. In Australia we call the bush hog a rotary slasher. I have had one on the back of a Massey Ferguson 135 diesel for the last 30 years. Have replaced seals in the gearbox once
Sometimes the littlest jobs can take forever and throw you for a loop. May I suggest the Dewalt 20v grease gun, it's my FAVORITE tool from Dewalt. Makes greasing fun honestly!
Evan when you heat anything up like that again! Just heat it up red hot an cool it guickly with water an it will fall apart! It will break up the rust!
You have great patience Evan as well as the skills for whatever is put in front of you to fix. Thanks for sharing your projects with us. Have a Blessed day.
Did a great job I think you do excellent on all your videos I really like watching them I noticed you had an FTRshirt on I also watch him he is very good also may God bless and be with you
Job well done Evan, glad you got the wheel freed up now keep it greased before it sets all winter and before each use. A little extra grease is worth more that the labor and tools it broke to fix it. Stay safe around there and keep up the good work. Fred.
Tough job but good 1 to get done .It sure feels good when you start to see it move and it keeps getting better with every inch gained. I just got to watch your last 3 videos. I am in Prince Edward Island in Canada and lost power 8 Days ago when Hurricane Fiona came through.Still don't have power ( running on generator for 8 days now ) but last night we got internet and tv back so I got to catch up on your videos. We lost some trees but no damage to house or buildings so we were very lucky . So many people had trees (some 200 years old ) fall on their houses and cars and buildings tore apart. There are areas where there are miles of power lines down with trees on top of them ,but day by day we are getting better and making progress to . 1 of my sisters had 21 trees fall in their yard so they have lots of work cleaning up yet to do. Was looking forward to watching your vids and feels like things are getting back to normal.
Tractor Supply sells quart bottles of 00 cotton head grease, that’s what I use in mine, doesn’t leak. It isn’t displayed in the oil and grease section, think it is in the PTO or cutter parts section.
Evan my wife and I enjoy your videos. Good luck to both of you. I'll bet that Rebekah had a few things to say about your sight unseen auction bid of the hay wagon.
a quick and dirty trick for leaky gearboxes is to put a tube of grease in with your oil to thicken it up so it doesn't leak past the seal just don't make it so thick it doesn't flow!! sometimes you can run a brake hone through a tight tube to get a shaft to be looser
The gear box on my brush cutter started leaking bad. I pumped it full of John Deer Corn head grease. It is a zero viscosity grease and does not leak out.. Works fine now.
When your dealing with rusted pins in sleeves next time heat the sleeve in one spot up and down the entire length of the sleeve only just enough heat to expand the sleeve then pour water over the top of the pin to cool it down causing the water to penetrate between the sleeve and pin then heat again on the opposite side and pour water over the top again the water will be sucked further down inside and then twist just as you did with the pipe. Repeat 90 degrees from that point if needed. Adding the water turns the rust to a paste and lubricants the pin in the sleeve. This works on those large high dollar rusted nuts and bolts as well.
I took a board and wedged it into the fork. Forced it and it started to turn. Put a new grease zerk and had someone grease while i moved it back and forth. Finally fell out. Took a grinder to the shaft and put it back together. Never an issue since.
Make a cover or counterbore the socket for a seal and add a thrust bearing, even a rope seal under the washers would help i did that to my garden tractor.
JudithB I loved brush hogging at the farm and it got easier the more I did it!!! First time, I got too close to the garden fence, and when I swung the hog around, I hit a tpost. The break away bolt did it job and broke, but it took me 3 trips to town to get the right size. I did buy 2 more for just in case!!! LOL!! Then I ran over a hornet nest, and escaped before getting stung. I killed the nest that night, so I wouldnt hit it again!!!
I just had to do a similar rebuild this season on my brush hog. The grease zerk was plugged when my father in law bought it 15 years ago and he never bothered fixing it. It seized up and started digging in, but thankfully it was not as seized as yours. I used a heavy duty hammer drill with a pointed chisel tip (like on the puller) and it pretty much was able to vibrate it out.
That video looks like an evening I've had with the brush hog I bought new I was mowing a ditch leading down to a Levy that was to wet to mow long ways so I was backing the mower across the ditch mowing one side then the other I had the tractor in 4x4 and ended up bending the shaft for the wheel bracket I finally got it out by putting it in my 20 ton shop press and pressing it out it wasn't an easy task I took it to a machine shop in the next town west of where I live he cut the shaft off and welded a ram stock for a hydraulic cylinder he on and he said it would be stronger than it was before but not to brush hog in 4x4 all the time anymore
I've seen a few frozen swivel wheel shafts in my day, but I think yours was tighter than any of them. We all get behind with maintenance and that seemed to be the case with the shaft and overgrowth. You did a nice job of catching up both Evan. Thanks for sharing the experience.
The grease zerk wouldn't take grease this year. And I didn't have the correct size to replace it. I finally got the right size zerk and it wouldn't take grease either. The shaft was completely plugged up. That's when I started trying to take it apart and used the torch the first attempt.
@@CountryViewAcres I know exactly what you're talking about on the zerks - If you need this size, you have that size, if you need this thread all you have is the other thread and forget about the angles. Plus, as you say, sometimes even a new zerk won't take grease. 🤷♂
Get some 00 grease from Tractor Supply for the leaking oil in the gear box. It is about the consistency of home made jelly and mixes well with the regular gear oil and helps with leaks.
I've had the same problem on an old brushog I used to have with the same tail wheel set up . Ended up when I got it off took it over to my neighbor and he got it on his lathe the pin had a slight bow in it you couldn't see with the eye. He turned it and it went back together really easy.
If that gear box still leaks oil something you could do is get some disc mower grease and fill the gearbox with it. It's liquid enough to flow as it's needed in the box but viscous enough that it won't leak out. Not a proper fix but it works. I filled my mower gearbox two years ago with it and haven't had to top it off.
Mix grease with your gear oil and make it pretty thick will help with lube and leak less .. most brsh hogs used what is called cornhead grease instead of gear oil they are all notorius for leaks even with new seals i take a paint mixer on a drill to mix them together the thicker the better
If you want to forgo new seals in the gear box for the time being, I pump grease into my old Bush Hog instead of wasting money on oil. Just check it every so often.
If replacing the bottom seal on your mower goes anything like mine did, you're going to need another person alot of heat , a big hammer and a piece of solid stock to knock the stump jumper off. It was a royal pain!
Use grease in the mower’s gear box with the oil . Grease can seal up the leak of the oil. Then add enough oil to splash up with the gears. I got a forty five year old 6 foot. Still mows about ten acres a year. Oil seals won’t stay in right never ever always leak.
I saw where you used some PB Blaster which is a good product. One thing that I have learned that works well on frozen/stuck/rusted bolts is a 50/50 mixture of transmission fluid and acetone.
This is 1 reason I say put this thing in a shed or at least cover it with a tarp. And grease it liberally before and after every used. That is called preventative maintenance.
I know it didn't show up in the video. But I used almost a whole can of PB blaster on this over both of my attempts to free this up. And it didn't seem to help. Persistence seemed to be the winning factor.
Evan, you mentioned almost quitting to free up that brush hog wheel, but I have determined there aint no quit in your dna, because whenever you encounter a problem, you always find a solution, nice going dude, I always enjoy your videos
Hello Evan I keep getting this crap I won something or email them back of coarse I dont look into just wondered if there was a way block them.
I keep blocking them. They just make new accounts. It is a big problem on youtube.
@@CountryViewAcres I never respond back to them what losers they are. Thanks your reply. Have a great day.
HELLO from Germany! NOW THE WHEEL IS REPAIRED MAKE A PVC cap over the shaft so that no water can get in, we did that too, since then no more problem
Thumbs up for wearing a Farmer Tyler Ranch shirt 👍
When the shaft came out, how many of us must have thrown our hands in the air and yelled "Yea". Bully for you, Evan, for your persistence. God bless.
all the energy of the hammer blow is absorbed by the bounce. if you just had it stable on wood blocks or something solid you could hammer that right out no problem...
I was going to say the same thing
I agree that means right about that wood I think it's a good idea
Doesn't do the seals on the lift cylinder a lot of good either.
I agree Robert Neff, it would have moved long before it did.
When you started twisting it with that bar I knew you had it on the run! Makes me think maybe I ought to service up my brush hog haha! Nice shirt you got there!
Way-a-go! Stay with it, don't quit!
Well, brute force and manpower did the job!!! 🛠🔩 That brush hog is a beast!!
I noticed the grease zerk was missing on my cousin's brush hog last year. I couldn't get a new one in at first and noticed there were no threads. When I couldn't get a tap in, I realized the hole didn't go all the way through. So I drilled it out, tapped it, installed a zerk, and greased it.
Hello from the Netherlands .
thanks for the video .
Sincerely, Hollandduck
I just want to say that I am glad you show all of the events that don't go as planned and the mistakes you've made over the years. It makes it easier for all of us to see that you have they same struggles and you may not always have a real good clue as how to fix something or accomplish a task. But you keep going and persevere. Gives the rest of us newbies hope.
Nice t-shirt. Silva Brothers… This Old House.
You can say "our", we are in this with you.
You need free-all. Appreciate your tenacity.
Put a couple caps of brake fluid in you gearbox when adding fluid. If the seal is not cut it will swell it up and stop the leak. Do not add more than 2 caps ful each time it is filled up. That is a old mechanics trick.
Great job getting that job done!! Love the FTR shirt too!! Two of my favorite channels
Like your tee shirt, and the support you give Farmer Tylor.
Hi Evan, it was so satisfying when that shaft came out! I spent half a day removing a bent shaft on the Super C this week, and there's nothing like the feeling when it finally pops loose.
I am so impressed that you never give up when you’re trying to fix your Appliances and equipment❣️❣️❣️❣️😊😊😊😊
Really proud of you and I love your videos. Keep up the good work in always look forward to the next one❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️♥️♥️♥️♥️ congratulations on getting the brush hog fixed. (I was beginning to wonder if you weren’t going to get it done. I love your determination)!!!!!!
Hey Evan, We always just filled our brushhogs with grease, when they started leaking, It works great and never had a fail. I worked for the township and it was what I was taught many years ago. lol
Yeah we have done that too.... we always used john deere corn head grease though. It's like a oil and grease mix if you wanna call it an in-between
Love the “Farmer Tyler Ranch” t- shirt 👕 another fantastic channel on RUclips!
Evan, Great Job again !! You're so good at figuring out how to fix that
Brush Hog...I would have to get all my neighbors over to help and that would cost at least one case of beer and about 8 hours !!! You are great fixing up your farm...I look forward to your videos ....so interesting !!! Thank You...
The elation when the wheel was finally free! Hurrah!!!😆 I'm glad you persevered, the reward is amazing, isn't it?
Evan, I am amazed at how you did not quit and you kept after the shaft and made it work. You always find a way to fix whatever you are working on and that take a lot of patience of knowledge, but you do what you have to do and fix it.
Kudos…Another great example of your work ethic and skills👍👍👍
Fill the gear box up with grease then add the gear oil. It will help slow down the leak and keep the gears lubed if you run out.
Love FTR along with your channel.
Glad to see I'm not the only one driving the struggle bus on my projects! Thanks for filming!!
Captain Prairie Driving the struggle bus? That's hilarious, I'm stealing that one!😂
@@TheBereangirl I am sure I stole it from somewhere too!
@@captainprairie5790 😂
Totally rocking that Farmer Tyler Ranch tee!😎
Adding a grease zerk is the best idea you ever had!! I'm a yuge believer in grease zerks!!
Hey Evan thanks for the video. In Australia we call the bush hog a rotary slasher. I have had one on the back of a Massey Ferguson 135 diesel for the last 30 years. Have replaced seals in the gearbox once
Hardworking fella you are my man 💪
You have the patience and perseverance of a Saint. Very admirable. Love your vids.
Good to see that you it free and now it turns
With the wheel been the way it was, their is no greater feeling to see and enjoy the fruits of your labor working right.
Sometimes the littlest jobs can take forever and throw you for a loop. May I suggest the Dewalt 20v grease gun, it's my FAVORITE tool from Dewalt. Makes greasing fun honestly!
Good job fixing the tail wheel on the brush cutter.
Evan when you heat anything up like that again! Just heat it up red hot an cool it guickly with water an it will fall apart! It will break up the rust!
Great video. Better hang a bucket over the swivel wheel so the rain don't seize it up again.
You have great patience Evan as well as the skills for whatever is put in front of you to fix. Thanks for sharing your projects with us. Have a Blessed day.
Did a great job I think you do excellent on all your videos I really like watching them I noticed you had an FTRshirt on I also watch him he is very good also may God bless and be with you
@@mitchellgourley4642 I google FTR is it about motor cycles?
@@mitchellgourley4642 Never mind i got it Farmer Tyler Ranch
I watch him also lol
@@Gods-Elect no It’s about a
Ranch
Set a hyd jack on the pin wrap a chain over it and extend jack to press down the pin. Use sockets to keep pressing the shift down.
Like the FTR t shirt
I noticed your Farmer Tyler Ranch tee shirt!
Job well done Evan, glad you got the wheel freed up now keep it greased before it sets all winter and before each use. A little extra grease is worth more that the labor and tools it broke to fix it. Stay safe around there and keep up the good work. Fred.
I do enjoy watching your videos.
Love the T-shirt!!
Tough job but good 1 to get done .It sure feels good when you start to see it move and it keeps getting better with every inch gained. I just got to watch your last 3 videos. I am in Prince Edward Island in Canada and lost power 8 Days ago when Hurricane Fiona came through.Still don't have power ( running on generator for 8 days now ) but last night we got internet and tv back so I got to catch up on your videos. We lost some trees but no damage to house or buildings so we were very lucky . So many people had trees (some 200 years old ) fall on their houses and cars and buildings tore apart. There are areas where there are miles of power lines down with trees on top of them ,but day by day we are getting better and making progress to . 1 of my sisters had 21 trees fall in their yard so they have lots of work cleaning up yet to do. Was looking forward to watching your vids and feels like things are getting back to normal.
Great video
Tractor Supply sells quart bottles of 00 cotton head grease, that’s what I use in mine, doesn’t leak. It isn’t displayed in the oil and grease section, think it is in the PTO or cutter parts section.
Evan my wife and I enjoy your videos. Good luck to both of you. I'll bet that Rebekah had a few things to say about your sight unseen auction bid of the hay wagon.
Good job having that amount of patience
Great job keep up the good work love your videos thank you
I own 6 different bush hogs. 4 with multiple gearboxes I pump 1 tube of grease per box and as it heats it helps the seal hold oil!
a quick and dirty trick for leaky gearboxes is to put a tube of grease in with your oil to thicken it up so it doesn't leak past the seal just don't make it so thick it doesn't flow!! sometimes you can run a brake hone through a tight tube to get a shaft to be looser
The gear box on my brush cutter started leaking bad. I pumped it full of John Deer Corn head grease. It is a zero viscosity grease and does not leak out.. Works fine now.
Farmers in Australia use to use wire to fix things, nowdays they use an angle grinder to fix things.
When your dealing with rusted pins in sleeves next time heat the sleeve in one spot up and down the entire length of the sleeve only just enough heat to expand the sleeve then pour water over the top of the pin to cool it down causing the water to penetrate between the sleeve and pin then heat again on the opposite side and pour water over the top again the water will be sucked further down inside and then twist just as you did with the pipe. Repeat 90 degrees from that point if needed. Adding the water turns the rust to a paste and lubricants the pin in the sleeve. This works on those large high dollar rusted nuts and bolts as well.
Another great video. I like your Farmer Tyler Ranch shirt; his is another channel I never miss.
love the FTR tee shirt Evan 👍
I took a board and wedged it into the fork. Forced it and it started to turn. Put a new grease zerk and had someone grease while i moved it back and forth. Finally fell out. Took a grinder to the shaft and put it back together. Never an issue since.
Make a cover or counterbore the socket for a seal and add a thrust bearing, even a rope seal under the washers would help i did that to my garden tractor.
JudithB I loved brush hogging at the farm and it got easier the more I did it!!! First time, I got too close to the garden fence, and when I swung the hog around, I hit a tpost. The break away bolt did it job and broke, but it took me 3 trips to town to get the right size. I did buy 2 more for just in case!!! LOL!! Then I ran over a hornet nest, and escaped before getting stung. I killed the nest that night, so I wouldnt hit it again!!!
Well done Evan. Thanks for posting.
That hydraulic jack will still be good, your operation with it was wrong. Sorry.
How do you figure?
looks much better now. glad that you got the wheel fixed. I don't think that it was going to come out. great video thanks for sharing
Looks good Evan have a good night.
Hi, Evan! Great video! I love watching you work on your farm equipment. You are very knowledgeable.
A floor Jack and chains will do awesome things
I just had to do a similar rebuild this season on my brush hog. The grease zerk was plugged when my father in law bought it 15 years ago and he never bothered fixing it. It seized up and started digging in, but thankfully it was not as seized as yours. I used a heavy duty hammer drill with a pointed chisel tip (like on the puller) and it pretty much was able to vibrate it out.
I've taken a cut off wheel and made a slice longways in the tube to help relieve the tension. Then just welded it back up after I got shaft out.
That video looks like an evening I've had with the brush hog I bought new I was mowing a ditch leading down to a Levy that was to wet to mow long ways so I was backing the mower across the ditch mowing one side then the other I had the tractor in 4x4 and ended up bending the shaft for the wheel bracket I finally got it out by putting it in my 20 ton shop press and pressing it out it wasn't an easy task I took it to a machine shop in the next town west of where I live he cut the shaft off and welded a ram stock for a hydraulic cylinder he on and he said it would be stronger than it was before but not to brush hog in 4x4 all the time anymore
I've seen a few frozen swivel wheel shafts in my day, but I think yours was tighter than any of them. We all get behind with maintenance and that seemed to be the case with the shaft and overgrowth. You did a nice job of catching up both Evan. Thanks for sharing the experience.
The grease zerk wouldn't take grease this year. And I didn't have the correct size to replace it. I finally got the right size zerk and it wouldn't take grease either. The shaft was completely plugged up. That's when I started trying to take it apart and used the torch the first attempt.
@@CountryViewAcres I know exactly what you're talking about on the zerks - If you need this size, you have that size, if you need this thread all you have is the other thread and forget about the angles. Plus, as you say, sometimes even a new zerk won't take grease. 🤷♂
Mine did the exact same thing. After you clean it grease it before every use to keep clean grease in it.
I applaud your perseverence👏. Never quit.
Get some 00 grease from Tractor Supply for the leaking oil in the gear box. It is about the consistency of home made jelly and mixes well with the regular gear oil and helps with leaks.
I've had the same problem on an old brushog I used to have with the same tail wheel set up
. Ended up when I got it off took it over to my neighbor and he got it on his lathe the pin had a slight bow in it you couldn't see with the eye. He turned it and it went back together really easy.
I watch FTR too. He’s great !!
Sometimes you just have to walk away and come back later with a fresh mind.
Good job Evan!
You're doing a Good Job
Always good when a daily annoyance is done and dusted. 😀
If that gear box still leaks oil something you could do is get some disc mower grease and fill the gearbox with it. It's liquid enough to flow as it's needed in the box but viscous enough that it won't leak out. Not a proper fix but it works. I filled my mower gearbox two years ago with it and haven't had to top it off.
You can run corn head grease in your gearbox. It won’t leak like oil but still provides lubrication.
Mix grease with your gear oil and make it pretty thick will help with lube and leak less .. most brsh hogs used what is called cornhead grease instead of gear oil they are all notorius for leaks even with new seals i take a paint mixer on a drill to mix them together the thicker the better
Nice job Evan. I’m looking forward to seeing you replace the seals in the future - i need to do the same.
So happy to have you back yes I know you are always busy working but it’s always great to see mate hope you all are doing great thanks again Joe.
Good job Evan You are a smart crafts man
If you want to forgo new seals in the gear box for the time being, I pump grease into my old Bush Hog instead of wasting money on oil. Just check it every so often.
Semi liquid grease works well and leaks out slower. Regular grease doesn’t stick well to the gears.
Nice shirt
Awesome video as always - and love the T-shirt!
Nice work Evan🤘🏼‼️
If replacing the bottom seal on your mower goes anything like mine did, you're going to need another person alot of heat , a big hammer and a piece of solid stock to knock the stump jumper off. It was a royal pain!
You have some neat tools.
Use grease in the mower’s gear box with the oil . Grease can seal up the leak of the oil. Then add enough oil to splash up with the gears. I got a forty five year old 6 foot. Still mows about ten acres a year. Oil seals won’t stay in right never ever always leak.
Another great video Evan
Another great video Evan, also glad to see you'll be repairing the roof on the woodshed. Looking forward to seeing that video.
yes, I hope to do that this fall/winter.
What great determination !!
I saw where you used some PB Blaster which is a good product. One thing that I have learned that works well on frozen/stuck/rusted bolts is a 50/50 mixture of transmission fluid and acetone.
Wow that was a battle
This is 1 reason I say put this thing in a shed or at least cover it with a tarp. And grease it liberally before and after every used. That is called preventative maintenance.