Wishes and dreams, front mount brush shedder

mikewood869 · Mar 10, 2019

On the tractor I was thinking is a Ford 6610 with rear wheel drive, 8spd with 4 reverse and dual remotes (1982 or 1983 model) and a ford 777B loader. Just out of curiosity would it be possible to run a brush cutter off the loaders hydraulics? If not, engine mount hydraulic pump (rear left side of the engine, there is a plate their), or off the crank (I think they had a kit to make the loader to run off a crank)? When the brush cutter is attached to the loader. Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2adjkAfyvQ

I was thinking 7 ft, we have a woods 208 brush cutter (8 ft) and that is pushing the tractor without any weights (the rear of the tractor goes up into the air. I was hoping to cut up to 8 inches thick.

Sorry for the upside down photos.

Billy NY · Mar 10, 2019

The thing that stands out is, can you get the hydraulic specifications met to run a rotary cutter like that ? One that will take the larger material from small trees. The larger ones that are on loader/skidder type chassis, for brush and small tree clearing, have very expensive hydraulic pumps. They will take down every small diameter tree, except apple, those they leave when the forestry outfit clears the power lines. The ones on skid steers are just smaller, but pack the same punch. Very interesting question, I've got a ton of work like that to do here, vines especially, might just pay to rent one as once done, then I can keep after it with just a common rotary cutter.

You will want to make sure you have guards for everything, those large ones toss firewood size blocks out. One needs to stay well away from the business end.

Russ from MN · Mar 10, 2019

I doubt your loader hydraulics would run a brush cutter, if it did it would probably require a cooler. It looks like you have
about 10 gpm at 2500 psi. A skidloader works nice with a front mounted cutter, but I'm pretty sure they have a lot more
volume. A PTO driven brush cutter is the most efficient, but I can't run over 8 inch brush. In MN we call an 8 inch plant a
tree, not brush!

RM-MN · Mar 10, 2019

Your tire dealer will love you if you get a front mount brush chopper. With the rear mounted ones the tractor needs to bend the full length bushes or trees which then get cut. A front mount would cut them off so the stub stumps would be right in front of the tires all the time. You'll be nearly certain to need tires repaired regularly.

JD Seller · Mar 10, 2019

Making a front mounted heavy duty brush cutter for your tractor and loader would be hard to make work correctly an SAFELY. Your tractor hydraulics would not have enough flow. Also the tractor itself would not be heavy enough to carry that load of a cutter on the loader way out in front.

Look up "Brown Tree cutters" I have sold them they are a cross between a bush hog and a tree cutter. You back into large trees and they top guard on the Brown tree cutter is spring loaded which allows it to move enough that the blade will cut down trees/brush. The spring loaded guard pushes the trees over backwards.

ohiojim · Mar 10, 2019

are you talking cutting 8" stuff with a brush hog ?? i'd pay to watch that around here.

moresmoke · Mar 10, 2019

Realistically to drive something like that you would need a pot pump. Even then it would still be questionable.

I will let the others discuss the other pitfalls.

Google forestry clearing equipment, you will get an idea of the right tool for the job.

Mutt and Jeff · Mar 10, 2019

You want a forrestry cutter attachment.

It is a big spinning drum with carbide teeth

Takes high flow hydraulics and lots of horsepower

seen one guy showing off his on a new skidsteer he either leases or replaces every year or two as the left behing stumps and amassed debri left in
undercarrage destroys the machine

consider them disposable

The biggest meanest ones have their own seperate engine and pump systems
forrestry mulcher

jddrawbar · Mar 10, 2019

I have a Brown Tree Cutter. 4 blades on a 1" drum plate. Like JD seller said, you can back into a large tree, slowly and cut it down. 165 hp. Borg-Warner gear box with a cage built over the mower. It is not something you want to watch working, it will sling debris out the open back of the mower for 100'+. A good piece of equipment that can cut down anything you can drive over or back over.

mikewood869 · Mar 12, 2019

I see. Just don't have the HP or GPM. Just making cutting down brush that much easier (been burning everything over 7 inches). Was thinking of a 6 ft or 5 ft brush cutter. I saw someone try to shred a 8 inch log... you could see and smell the slip clutch working.

Destroked 450 · Mar 12, 2019

Notice in the video he's using a track loader and is setting behind a door made of ballistic glass.
There's a reason for both.
Put one of those cutters on a tractors front loader and your looking at stubbed tires, punctured radiator and possibly killing yourself from flying debries.
I'd like to have one of those cutters for my skid loader to remove light brush, but anything over 4" I push over and remove roots and all, don't want to deal with the stumps when working the ground

Oliver 500 Wa · Mar 12, 2019

A friend of mine has a 7' brushcutter on the front of a Bobcat tracksteer loader. It WILL knock down some pretty sizeable trees but, he feels it it very hard on it. His current approach is to have his guys walk the work area and drop anything 3" and bigger before they go through with the machine.

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