redneck bush hog

[nomorejohndeere]

 

[Big Bud guy]

In the 1930s my great grandpa made a grasshopper poison spreader out of an axle/differential.  Still have it

[IHKeith]

My Dad is a Bush Hog dealer, not long ago Bush Hog equipment was exclusively shipped by Bush Hog's own trucking company.  The drivers I met were small town folk, born and raised in the area of their truck's home base, had family that worked for Bush Hog too, they were connected to the equipment they hauled.  If I remember right Bush Hog had two factories that equipment was shipped from, one in Salma?Selma? Alabama, and the other somewhere in Iowa.  A driver from Alabama told me that the first Bush Hog was built with a differential and hood from a Ford pickup, with a chain for a blade,  by "a couple good old boys" messing around the garage.

 

[russ_alabama]

There's been four bush hogs (Bush Hog brand) on this place over the course of mine, Dad's, and Granddad's life, and they were all made in Selma.  I'm devoted to the brand, without any negative to say of other brands that may be as good or better.  It's a great thing about America's legend of the 20th century that a couple of good old boys could innovate and create a product that many want to copy.  Sometimes the best ideas come from those with the need at hand in front of them.  

[IHKeith]

30 minutes ago, russ_alabama said:

There's been four bush hogs (Bush Hog brand) on this place over the course of mine, Dad's, and Granddad's life, and they were all made in Selma.  I'm devoted to the brand, without any negative to say of other brands that may be as good or better.  It's a great thing about America's legend of the 20th century that a couple of good old boys could innovate and create a product that many want to copy.  Sometimes the best ideas come from those with the need at hand in front of them.  

The evening I heard that Bush Hog story I was working on a derby car, I unloaded the Bush Hog truck and the driver was visiting with us after.  I can't remember what we were "engineering" for the derby car, but some kind of trickery or bending of the rules, when we explained it to him we ended with a remark that we were silly hicks and spend too much time messing around in the garage, he told us that story and that he has a job because of some guys messing around in the garage

[nomorejohndeere]

awesomeness

 

[E160BHM]

On 3/30/2023 at 8:08 PM, IHKeith said:

My Dad is a Bush Hog dealer, not long ago Bush Hog equipment was exclusively shipped by Bush Hog's own trucking company.  The drivers I met were small town folk, born and raised in the area of their truck's home base, had family that worked for Bush Hog too, they were connected to the equipment they hauled.  If I remember right Bush Hog had two factories that equipment was shipped from, one in Salma?Selma? Alabama, and the other somewhere in Iowa.  A driver from Alabama told me that the first Bush Hog was built with a differential and hood from a Ford pickup, with a chain for a blade,  by "a couple good old boys" messing around the garage.

 

Sometime in the late 1970s Bush Hog bought the StanHoist line in Fort Dodge, Ia.  StanHoist made rotary mowers, wagons, wagon hoists, and pipe frame loaders which became Bush Hog products.  Production was moved to a building just southwest of the intersection of US20 (now Old Highway 20) and US169.  The building in the early ‘70s had been a New Idea plant and warehouse.