Any suggestions for a skid steer mounted rough cut mower?

digger doug · Nov 1, 2016

This message is a reply to an archived post by rockyridgefarm on July 08, 2013 at 09:47:17.
The original subject was "Any suggestions for a skid steer mounted rough cut mower?".

I did, here is version 1.0

digger doug · Nov 1, 2016

Let me try some pictures first...

glennster · Nov 1, 2016

prolly wanna wear a hoodie and maybe some goggles running that rascal!!!

digger doug · Nov 1, 2016

Hey now ! I used a $3 Harbor Freight face shield....

Having loading a video, or even the u-tube linky to it.

will try some more, pardon my elbow typing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ycQ6Lf0xA

Our Farmer · Nov 5, 2016

What'd you use for the hydraulic motor?
I built one from an 5' bush hog, and used an old Char Lynn wheel motor I had hanging around. LX565 14gpm @3000 skidsteer. Not getting the tip speed I wanted. Calculations said I should be getting 540 rpm into the gearbox, but I'm not.

Plenty of power though. Thing'll go through a 2" sapling like it's not there. More like whirling axes than mower blades.

digger doug · Nov 6, 2016

Well I have 9.5 gpm so found a motor on surplus center.com
to give me about 500 rpm.

Unless you have a hi flow machine, you'll never get the performance
like on the back of a tractor.

So with the very low flow of 9.5 gpm, I decided to only use blades for a 4'
diameter cut width. Unlike a tractor, it's easy to swing side-to-side
to clear a path wide enough for the machine (If the sides are open like my design)

Also, a closed deck that re-cuts the material (shreds) takes more h.p. (that I don't have)
So mine is more of a slash cut. I have cut in high grass, but that is what takes the
h.p. so progress is slow.

In operation along a tree line (trimming the underbrush) it generally goes like this:
You spin it up to speed, and then go in, as you drop speed, (or outright stall) you lift it up and back up a bit to get it spun back up.

Steve Oller · Nov 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:48:49 11/01/16) prolly wanna wear a hoodie and maybe some goggles running that rascal!!!

ow about a suit of armor !!! :roll:

digger doug · Nov 7, 2016

(quoted from post at 17:42:03 11/06/16)

(quoted from post at 11:48:49 11/01/16) prolly wanna wear a hoodie and maybe some goggles running that rascal!!!

Click to expand...

ow about a suit of armor !!! :roll:

Oh come on now....bunch-O weenies....

Here is the more streamlined version 2.0
and it greatly cuts down the stuff "coming back"

Plus I think I'll just ad a cab door to the skid loader.

digger doug · Nov 7, 2016

Well heck...here should be version 2.0 pictoores

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