Eagleview
Veteran Member
Im planing on building a tracked mulcher using a 10 ton excavator base . It will have a shaft driven cutter head via a twin disc clutch on a 265hp Nissan Diesel . In my mind the drum should rotate bottom forward like my flail mowers so it will shred going forward and should not need to go over the area in reverse . But they are mainly made to rotate top forward , why ? My machine will look a little like a PT400 Gator only smaller . With my flail mowers when you strike a piece of steel or a hard rock it just throws them forward and gives me time to stop . Rotating top forward in the same situation the cutters would grab the object instantly and probably break something . My mowers are useless in reverse but cut like a lawn tractor going forward , does this not apply to mulchers ?