john in la
Well-known Member
Lets start with I am not easy on a brush cutter.
I feel if the tractor can bend the tree over it ought to be small enough for a brush cutter to eat it.
So I replace more than my share of shear bolts.
I am using a Howse 5 foot cutter that has a cutting capacity of up to 1 1/2 inches per the manufacture with a 55hp gear box.
Rather than get off my butt and cut these trees down with a saw I am looking at installing a pto clutch and doing away with the shear bolt.
We are not talking about cutting a grove of trees.
More like might come across 3 or 4 trees per acre.
I assume you just install them with grade 8 bolts and cut the drive shaft to fit the shorter length.
Then I went to find one and found a big price differance in different brands.
https://www.agrisupply.com/gr-1-pto-slip-clutch-smooth/p/90653/
https://www.agrisupply.com/pto-slip-clutch/p/32323/
With the second one costing almost 3 times as much there has to be a differance but for the life of me I can not find much of a differance in the discription.
So school me on these PTO clutches.
I feel if the tractor can bend the tree over it ought to be small enough for a brush cutter to eat it.
So I replace more than my share of shear bolts.
I am using a Howse 5 foot cutter that has a cutting capacity of up to 1 1/2 inches per the manufacture with a 55hp gear box.
Rather than get off my butt and cut these trees down with a saw I am looking at installing a pto clutch and doing away with the shear bolt.
We are not talking about cutting a grove of trees.
More like might come across 3 or 4 trees per acre.
I assume you just install them with grade 8 bolts and cut the drive shaft to fit the shorter length.
Then I went to find one and found a big price differance in different brands.
https://www.agrisupply.com/gr-1-pto-slip-clutch-smooth/p/90653/
https://www.agrisupply.com/pto-slip-clutch/p/32323/
With the second one costing almost 3 times as much there has to be a differance but for the life of me I can not find much of a differance in the discription.
So school me on these PTO clutches.