djradz
Veteran Member
I have been opening up some brush areas on my land with my lite duty 5' KK rotary cutter. The cutter has done a great job on small and large brush (up to about 3"). I know some of the brush I am cutting is abusive to this lite duty cutter....but it seems to tackle it quite nicely.
MY QUEStiON: My ground is also quite rough.....and I am always digging the leading edge of the cutter in the ground....which then levers the back end up before it breaks free and the back end again falls to the ground. This seems hard on stuff...but I also want to clip the brush low to the ground. It seems the lead edges of the cutter dig into the ground too easliy thus creating the problems. Any operating suggestions???....or is this just part of the game on new rough ground?
I bought this cutter new for a good deal ($550.00) and so far have beat the tar out of it. It has not even sheared a pin...yet. But I need to wire all the pins on my three point in place (or replace with bolts) as I keep losing them in the thick brush.Sometimes it feels like the rotary cutter is also part tiller....as I sure have scalped allot of sod and tilled allot of ground with it.
Foggy, go with "check chains". See attached photo. No chain on top, but these support the front so that no matter how low you drop the 3-pt, you limit it to a point you can live with. Although I've shown the picture of my RFM with the chains, my brush hog has the same setup except without the turnbuckles as the required adjustment is less precise. The idea actually came from Woods documentation back many years ago, but I think is still greatly appropriate today unless whatever you are connecting has front caster wheels. Note that the chains go loose when you lift the implement and do not interfere in any way with the operation, except to limit how far the front falls based on how long you make the chains. Give it a try - I think you'll be very impressed and wonder why all rotary cutters are not provided with the same as standard equipment.
