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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 27740" data-attributes="member: 307">I just had one swivel caster wheel, front and center. I tried to lift the weight off it b4 turning and not to apply down pressure to it (happens if I roll my bucket cylinders out too far) and to watch for ditches and holes that are too square and deep for the wheel to roll through.  I have learned to be vary careful with it. Renter however are a different story.I have broke the hub out of the wheel, (standard 3pt brusher wheel, bent the 1" shaft it steers on, bent the 1 1/4" grade 8 bolt I made the new shaft from. Broke the 3500 lb trailer hub I made the next swivel from.It is getting a 8 stud, 7000 lb trailer hub this time. I also folded up the factory king kutter arm that holds the wheel tried to reinforce it once and finally just tossed it. New one is 1.5 by 3 by .250" box iron. FixedThis should have a tire 30" tall and a swivel on a 2.5" pin made out of a good grade of steel. I will put it on a pickup receiver so I can remove it easily for the real rough bush, where you must carry the cutter.I love the open front design on the cutter though. Better performance in grass because it discharges some of the clippings. Better it brush because it all gets cut off, no more bending it over and just can't hit it with the blades. Now the blades are the first thing there. WHACK, gone.Ken</blockquote>