Hydraulic articulating arm string trimmer?

[hunter63]

I know that that thsi is a dumb question....and being a Noobie, and i suppose I should dig harder on the search........BUT'
Does any one make a articulating arm string trimmer?

Side mount, to reach rocky banks and cut weeds and brush?
Thanks for any info.

 

[Little_Grizzly]

I am looking for exactly that but a lot more substantial than a string trimmer. I need to cut brush - up to 2" buck-brush. I need TPH mount though.

 

[hunter63]

A TPH arangement set up would be alright as well......and I know the make a sidw mount brush hog as they trim the brush along our raod with one....But it's on a big machine not a 3015 Mahindra.

 

[ttriff]

Tractor Mounted PTO Powered Weed Chopper String Trimmer

Other ideas

4M INC.

Swisher, Swisher Products : 44 Inch Tow-Behind Trailcutter

and

DR DR Power Equipment - Brush Hog / Brush Mower ? clear land / brush - mow saplings make tow-behind mowers that travel beside the tractor but they aren't string trimmers.

I'm been trying to figure out how much hassle it would be to mount a big wheel type string trimmer to a platform that extends out 90 degrees from my forklift forks. Seems trivial to remove the wheels, handle, then bolt the axle to a plank. Would need to create an extension for the throttle and some kind of kill switch.

 

[hunter63]

The top one is kinda what I had in mind, I gonna call them and see it thatr arm can be articulated up and down to trim along a steep bank.

Tractor Mounted PTO Powered Weed Chopper String Trimmer

The old side bar mowers might work, but I have a lots of rocks to deal with....
but that is close.

I do have a trail mower that I have basically burned down since 1995, as I used it behing the 4 wheeler for a lot of years before I got the tractor....Not a Swisher, but same deal...still runs but is really beat up....LOL.
Must have broke the tounge off 4 or 5 times

 

[hunter63]

Just called the guy with the side arm, and it remains 90 degrees with no way to raise and lower the cutter....He did suggest a sickle bar mower...too many rocks.

Or this one, my tractor is too small....
Tractor Mounted, Articulated Ditch And Slope Mowers

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Google the Swisher Postmaster. It's not exactly what you're after but it might give you some ideas.

 

[bcp]

Cut the big ones with a chainsaw, then mount an old lawnmower on a boom, with or without wheels.

Bruce



From:
http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=1183

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I have an older model 5HP DR trimmer mower that is a beast as a walk behind and the belt keeps triping off from heavy brush limbs. Cuts up to 1" blackberry vines like they are butter. I am toying with a way to mount on the FEL, delete the mickey mouse clutch idler pulley (source of the belt tripping) and replace the motor w/a hydraulic motor powered off the tractor. Would have to work out the speed problem as few HMs run at 3600 RPM like a gas engine. That would be easy to hinge mount and have a posistioning cylinder to angle up and down toget bslopes both up and down. Next winter's project to flesh out.

Any bright guys done this type thing yet?

Ron

 

[Little_Grizzly]

Not a string trimmer but at least it's articulated: here