Thanks for the kind shout-out Martin. This is a perfect illustration of the video I SHOULD have made! 😉Great job as always. 👍😎

I love your cool and calm demeaner in explaining all that you do. Looks like a usefull product I think I will will get one.

Thanks so much for this video too! I even specifically looked for information about replacing that shroud and couldn't find anything useful. Most search results got confused and seemed to think that I was referring to the safety shroud on the end of the PTO shaft -- not the one on the gearbox. I must say it's somewhat comforting and I feel a certain brotherhood with you having suffered through this same experience. I got a new PTO shaft for my RCR1872 and it took me about 5 hours total to fully remove the old one, properly grease/maintain the new one, and install the new one. I was fully expecting you to realize the reason you couldn't remove the shaft was due to the snap ring being there... something I figured out the hard way -- but yours was gone! Once I removed my snap ring, I still had trouble from rust because the that zerk had not been greased in far too long (or at all?). I spent a couple hours hitting it with penetrating oil and ultimately had to use a ratchet strap to help me get enough force to break it free. I think if I am willing to cut off the old shroud like you did, it might be possible to get to the screws and remove it without having to remove the pto shaft :). I will try it that way. By the way, if you can believe it, my shroud is an older version of the one you had that has even smaller access! Also, am I the only one torquing shear bolts to spec? The manual on my cutter says a grade 2 shear bolt with 13 tpi should be torqued to 49 ft lbs. I'm new to all this so I might be overthinking it :). Looking forward to watching some more of your videos. I appreciate you.

Spectacular!...You channeled the OG Willy Wonka with "...not going to speed this up, you will have to suffer with me". Bravo!!

How satisfying to take a sawzall to that ridiculous shield! Well done. 😂

Just been trying to design one over the last week...all the hard work done with this unit .... excellent idea.

I like that design! Much easier to access for maintenance and also to fix the snap ring needed to avoid CHAOS, DEATH & DESTRUCTION... lol! Thanks!

Good afternoon Martin. That shaft was stubborn. They all are. I painted the pto on a tractor once and got it hooked up to an implement and thought I would never get it unhooked. Too bad the Land Pride engineers didn’t put their thinking caps on like EA did. But then again, Land Pride engineers will never have to work on one of their own out in the field in the real world. If they did, there would certainly be some changes in design. Well doneMartin.

Really enjoyed watching your lovely video. Really hope you are well and having a great Wednesday. Many thanks from Chris and Jane 💕👍💕

Martin, did you ever notice how a somewhat simple 30 minute job turns into a frustrating hour-long job? At least that's how things seem to go around my place. I'm not as agile as I once was but I slowly get things done. I sure like that brush cutter gearbox hood. Man you made my back hurt after watching you in that bent-over position for such a lengthy period. Glad this hood solves your access problem. Enjoyed your install video. Great explanation throughout the process, ha, even the frustrating parts. You made things look quite simple though my back is still twitching from watchning you bent over throughout. I see you have quite a bit of bamboo in the back. I helped a Marine friend remove large patches of that stuff from his backyard and he was so tickled to finally have it gone. Boy, it was a task in itself. Alright my friend, take good care of yourself. Don 👍🏽🤠 10/15/23

Hi Martin, I have the same unit and am looking forward to installing that cover on my RCR1860.. I had the same issues with getting to the fittings and I haven't checked if my snap ring is installed... Thanks for doing a video on the EA Shield...God Bless and Keep SAFE...Chief {NYS/ADK}

Thank you for this video Martin! I purchased the EA hood and installed it today. It makes maintenance so much easier now. I love this thing! I really enjoy your videos. Thanks again!!

I have that cutter and have experienced every problem in the video. Great solution.

Very informative video, Martin. Thanks for sharing !!

Very nice! I have a birthday coming up and will tell the wife that about this! I need to look at my Bushhog brand brush cutter to see if it fits. Great video as always Martin. Thanks for making it!

I bought one of these EA hoods a few months back and had the same issues removing the crappy 'shield' on my LP cutter - did the same thing you did and cut it off so I could get to the bolts. I love the EA hood and I've finally been able to fully service my cutters shaft and connections now. Great video once again.

Boy, am I glad you found snap ring missing. That could have been disaster. I found no need for flower pot on my tractor supply cutter and I shortened it to install shear bolt and to lubricate. The silly thing was probably there because someone stupid got hurt and sued. Enjoy your videos. Thank you.

Thanks. I just bought property and the seller included his Kubota L4701 with Land Pride brush cutter. The cutter had the plastic housing cut away just like you had to do. I think I might buy the EA extreme cover. Other other resources on grease, grease guns, grease fittings, etc. I'm new to this as a new land owner.😊

How's she goin'? You are right on the money with your assessment of this shroud Martin. A much better solution to a problem and like you have shown, with easier access, the maintenance and safety features can be addressed and made operational. Take care!!

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Thanks Martin. Gonna get one.

Thank you for the video! Just ordered a gearbox hood from extreme! 👍

I was wondering where that retaining clip was at. that was what I thought was holding it on making it impossible to remove. I built a custom safety shield to replace mine years ago. its round and is held on with two wing nuts. makes servicing much easier.

I'll be looking hard at Everything Attachments for a bush hog and box blade when I buy a larger tractor. They thought that shroud out. I love and cringes at Ted's testing videos. What a character.

Thanks so much for posting this! I have a 72” Frontier cutter with a slip clutch that is supposed to be adjusted annually. I have never been able to do it because of of the stupid shroud. Even my professional mechanic son couldn’t figure out to access the slip clutch without destroying the shroud. I love how you cut yours off. I’ll be doing the same after my Xtreme Hood arrives!

Watched your video and got excited about remedying this problem with my Bush Hog. Went to their website and even tried to call. Apparently, their company is in a whole lot of legal problems and they have pretty much ceased to function. If you know of any other cover manufacturer, please let me know.

I actually pulled the cover off mine a few weeks ago when trying to service my cutter. I thought it was such a stupid design. Now that I know this is an option I might get one. Not that I'm personally around the cutter while it's running but I'm now always worried that I'm going to back into some brush with with low clearance and get stuff wrapped up in the PTO. I didn't have to cut my old one off so if I ever sell the cutter to upgrade tractors then I can take it with me for the next one.

I BOUGHT ONE OF THESE AND MODIFIED IT TO FIT MY BETSCO FLAIL MOWER. MUCH BETTER

Lol I knew it was something to do with a brush hog martin. Cheers. Good job

you had me at reciprocating saw! I need that cover. mine is busted and a pain. $90 is cheap.

I did this upgrade to my rcr1860 earlier this year. Absolutely love the accessibility. I wish it would fit on my tiller. I'm surprised to see yours didn't have a slip clutch. Could you imagine having to replace a shear bolt with that thing in the way?

Did I hear a turkey yelping in the background?

Thank you so much for this excellent video! I just broke a first shear bolt in my first 10 minutes of mowing, I am a complete beginner. I am trying to watch videos and read the books and figure everything out. I could not figure out what or how to get around this huge safety shield on the rotary cutter and so this has helped tremendously. I'm just going to take everything very slowly *** Do you have a video showing how you check the oil and grease up inside of the gearbox on your Land Pride rotary cutter? Also, I tried to click on the link for that extreme hood and the link was broken. That seems like it would be worth a good investment

Hey Martin, Thanks for sharing this video. My rotary cutter is also a Land Pride, model RCF2072. It looks very similar to yours but larger. Do you think that it’s safe to say that I’d have to remove the PTO shaft to install an EA hood like you did? I had no idea you had a bamboo forest? I was thinking of growing some but I’ve heard that they can be quite invasive and high maintenance. Is that your experience? Thanks! Dave

It seemed like the new metal gearbox hood had a potential for rattling when you installed it. Did you notice that it added noise when you engaged the PTO? Thanks for your videos. They are very well done.

I hate that "flower pot" sheild on my Land Pride cutter, as well. Wish they all came with something like the EA sheild. But now that EA is out of buisness, anyone have an idea, or modification, to make the maintnence job easier at the gearbox end?

Martin If that doesn’t protect it nothing will. Later

That poor mower needs a wash bad!

I think you would of been just fine after you cut the old one in half to leave it as is.. been done with it.

Not a good look for Land Pride. No thought of the customer's need to do routine maintenance. Bad design for sake of cheapness and avoiding liability. They could have prevented this trouble but wanted to have the cheaper brush cutter. But if you have to spend money to retrofit, is it really worth it? Maybe. Maybe not.

I like the gearbox hood but it seems EA has gone out of business. Do you know anywhere else to get one?

Does anybody make something similar? EA is defunct right now.

My Bush Hog BH6 has that same ridiculous, aggravating, idiotic, frustrating, exasperating, irritating, vexatious, pestiferous, galling, rebarbative contraptions, and I have yet to deal with it. Something in me kept me from taking my recip saw to it....a guard is good and needs to be on, right? Nope! Not at my expense of procrastinated maintenance. No one is going near the spinning hardware anyway...I don't care that it gets aired out now. Problem solved. Except a cover like EA's would help keep rain out, and some chaff. We'll see.....