Front mount drum mower.

Loren Coffin

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My earlier thread about drum mowers is because I've been thinking the last couple years about building a front mount, with 4 smaller drums. Getting the angle of the lift arms and associated gear arranged so it releases/lifts when bumping something will be the critical factor I think.
2 drums will make a big windrow that will tangle on the tractor I think, going to 4 will make 2 smaller ones and clear everything maybe.
Thinking of using hyd. drive with 2 counter rotating motors belted to alternating heads. Any thoughts on if the onboard hydraulics will put out enough?
 
Oh, sorry, initial power will be a MF65, and I'm hoping I can slow down a little to make it easier on equipment with this rough ground, and make up for it by running the 3pt 2 drum also.
 
Think I have seen a couple pictures of them mounted on European tractors. Don't think I'd like one on front of mine. Heavy enough on the rear!
 
The Fella mower is not hydraulic driven. I don't want to be a candle snuffer but I think driving 4 drums by hydraulic at the high cutting speed which is reqiured would need a higher oil flow than what your tractor can supply and there would be a heating issue too.
 
(quoted from post at 17:55:43 09/27/13) The Fella mower is not hydraulic driven. I don't want to be a candle snuffer but I think driving 4 drums by hydraulic at the high cutting speed which is reqiured would need a higher oil flow than what your tractor can supply and there would be a heating issue too.

That's nothing a pto pump & hyd oil reservoir couldn't more than take care of. At one time I powered a Vermeer R23 rake from a pto hyd pump using the rakes tubing tongue for a reservoir. The oil in tongue served as the cooler.
 
I had originally thought of using a pto mounted pump to run it but thought if the onboard hyd would then I'd use that.
As for the rpm limit difference of the motors to head a simple step up gearbox can fix that. It'll create more loss in the system but I didn't figure this would be as simple as a rear mounted.
Using a bigger tractor isn't a stumbling block to the idea, just part of the process.
 

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