Posted by John in La on September 16, 2018 at 18:02:05 from (24.158.216.181):
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.
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.
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