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thefishhunter

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Long story short, I have found a couple of shredders available here that could easily be converted to "self powered"

If you were using it like one of those ATV pull behind mowers / disc / etc. If your strictly pulling from the drawbar; How big a load could an 8n pull, all day through an overgrown pasture?

I'm thinking if you had NO pto horsepower being pulled off the motor and were just using it to pull, how much could you pull all day in second gear or even third?

I would assume that there are guys on here who have pulled hay wagons / grain carts / etc. FULL around with an N? Thats gotta be 8-10 thousand pounds at a whack?

All this is assuming the following: the brakes are great, the engine is tuned up and in good knick, basically that the tractor is in great shape and ready to work.
 
(quoted from post at 12:11:36 05/05/16) Long story short, I have found a couple of shredders available here that could easily be converted to "self powered"

If you were using it like one of those ATV pull behind mowers / disc / etc. If your strictly pulling from the drawbar; How big a load could an 8n pull, all day through an overgrown pasture?

I'm thinking if you had NO pto horsepower being pulled off the motor and were just using it to pull, how much could you pull all day in second gear or even third?

I would assume that there are guys on here who have pulled hay wagons / grain carts / etc. FULL around with an N? Thats gotta be 8-10 thousand pounds at a whack?

All this is assuming the following: the brakes are great, the engine is tuned up and in good knick, basically that the tractor is in great shape and ready to work.
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have done that kind of weight, BUT I live in the flat lands where brakes are almost unnecessary. Very bad to tow more than tractor weight, safer with less, on hilly land, as even with good brakes, the load can push you where ever it wants!
 
How big of bushog you talking? Should
run a 5ft even with the pto. Weight of
any bushog including a batwing shouldn't
be a problem under most common
conditions.
 

BIG - there's a 12 footer that's available here for virtually nothing. and I have a motor to drive it.

I currently run a 5 footer and it works great, however I have the oppurtunity to bush hog about 75 acres next door to me, and dont want to go buy another tractor, and dont want to spend 1/2 a year getting through it.

I figure running the 5 footer, I can cover an acre an hour with the 8n hp in first / second gear and not bogging it down. I THINK (<--big assumptions here) that I should be able to cover all 75 acres in 2 days if I'm just pulling and can keep it in 3rd???
 
I figure running the 5 footer, I can cover an acre an hour with the 8n hp in first / second gear and not bogging it down. I THINK (<--big assumptions here) that I should be able to cover all 75 acres in 2 days if I'm just pulling and can keep it in 3rd???
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I find 2nd full throttle (4 mph ) is a little slow but an hour in 3rd 2/3rds throttle (5 mph ) beats my kidneys too hard on our pastures . Maybe weighted tires would help , The heavier 3000 at 5 - 6 mph is comfortable . Could be the 11.2 vs the 12.4 tires also .

If you double to two acres an hour , 75 acres would be 37.5 hrs .

We have about 100 rolling acres with about half being pasture . When my aunt would hire it out , the crew with fair sized newer tractors would do it in 40 working hours .

If your bidding the 75 acres you might want to hedge your bet . You can always charge less if it runs smooth .
 
I love the concept...and ambition! As
long as it isn't steep or very soft I
think it will work great. With the
engine I'm sure that mower will way
nearly what the tractor does but should
be fine as long as you are doing open
field and have some tongue weight.
Curious what kind of engine you are
using and how you plan to gear it down
to 540, and what will you use for a
clutch?
 
Hunter you need to stop and do the math.

an acre an hour means 75 hours to cut that. like said above 2 acres an hour is still 37.5, heck even 3 acres an hour is still 25 hours.

To cut 3 acres an hour with a 5 ft cutter you need to be traveling around 6 mph.

personally, I don't know how anyone cuts brush faster than 2-3 mph. unless they are cutting perfectly flat land. I find anything over 3 mph is too fast for the terrain we are cutting.
 

Im not 100% sure on the motor... my original intention was to use a smaller motor, run it through a transmission (to get to close to 540), then a 1:1 transfer case to the mower.

Now, I think what I've got in mind is a plain jane chevy 350 with a belt driven governor out front of the mower (on the drawbar.) Standard clutch & 4 speed. ...you can get these for $250 bucks or less every day of the week here. Should give 120 odd HP @ 2500 RPM or so. Should drive the mower with MORE than plenty of A$$.
 
Tiger,

Was just semi-kidding around about the timing.

But, I do figure if the mowers never boggin' down, then I can mow as fast I the tractor will go.

I'm not charging for the mowing, I'm trading for hunting rights, so my only interest is getting it all mowed before it starts growing head high again...Which it will if I use the 5 footer.

The property is dead flat, and the worse thing I have to watch out for is overgrown fences. 4 years ago, this was all horse pasture, so its not too too bad...
 

I'd have to say forget a 350 v8 on a brush cutter.

It would probably take you longer to 1 find a cutter that could handle a v8 engine, and 2 build a contraption that could hold the weight of a 350 and a 4 speed, than it would to just cut it with your 5 footer.

that seems like A LOT of cutting for only hunting rights.

I just cut about 2 acres of former horse pasture last weekend. granted its been about 8-10 years since it saw horses and its hilly, but it took me 4 hours to clear it.
 
Should work, myself for simplicity and
weight I think I would look for a
straight 6, Ford Chevy it don't matter,
and mount that to it. Transmission
should be perfect with a suitable speed
and provision for clutch throwout.
 
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