Here are some pictures of my new Bearcat 73554 Chipper/Shredder mounted on my JD 2520.
This unit is pretty awesome! Very well built, and it works the balls! The shredder and top 360 degree blower discharge I just cannot say enough about.
Like the brochure says, "If your only going to own one clean up machine, the 73554 blah, blah..."
I all I can say is it did everything well, the chipper, the shredder, the discharge shoot. Hydraulic feed is awesome, but twice the money, and once I rid this pile I will never have a sole pile this big again. I'll trim, limb & chip once a year in the fall. I am sure it'll go on quite a few time to take care of the limbs that fall from those seacoast NH warm, humid summer thunderstorms.
With this tractor and machine I will tell you 5" is too much for it. 4" is all I will put through it. The very first thing I put through it was a storm broken 8" pine limb. After a few small chippings, I went up the scale with a 3", 4", & 5" limb. It ate the 3" like no tomorrow, the 4" I had to feed and then hold back. The last 18" of it it ate no problem. The 5" however was a little problem. I had about 48" in lenght and feeding and holding back, until the last 18" I let it go for safety. Well, it ended up bogging down to the rotor not moving, however the tractor did not stall, it just smokes the belt. I shut it down. Cleared it out and started it back up and went back to it. The moral of the story is 5" is either too much for it or the 2520 is not enough PTO HP (20.5) to truly be a 5" chipper. Since the Bearcat machine is rated up to 45 HP, I'd say it is the 2520 that is the weak link here. I'm not complaining, this is my lawnmower (72"mmm) , I just don't want to beat either one of them and 4" is all I'll place in it.
I give both JD & Bearcat thumbs up for a couple of terrific products!
This unit is pretty awesome! Very well built, and it works the balls! The shredder and top 360 degree blower discharge I just cannot say enough about.
Like the brochure says, "If your only going to own one clean up machine, the 73554 blah, blah..."
I all I can say is it did everything well, the chipper, the shredder, the discharge shoot. Hydraulic feed is awesome, but twice the money, and once I rid this pile I will never have a sole pile this big again. I'll trim, limb & chip once a year in the fall. I am sure it'll go on quite a few time to take care of the limbs that fall from those seacoast NH warm, humid summer thunderstorms.
With this tractor and machine I will tell you 5" is too much for it. 4" is all I will put through it. The very first thing I put through it was a storm broken 8" pine limb. After a few small chippings, I went up the scale with a 3", 4", & 5" limb. It ate the 3" like no tomorrow, the 4" I had to feed and then hold back. The last 18" of it it ate no problem. The 5" however was a little problem. I had about 48" in lenght and feeding and holding back, until the last 18" I let it go for safety. Well, it ended up bogging down to the rotor not moving, however the tractor did not stall, it just smokes the belt. I shut it down. Cleared it out and started it back up and went back to it. The moral of the story is 5" is either too much for it or the 2520 is not enough PTO HP (20.5) to truly be a 5" chipper. Since the Bearcat machine is rated up to 45 HP, I'd say it is the 2520 that is the weak link here. I'm not complaining, this is my lawnmower (72"mmm) , I just don't want to beat either one of them and 4" is all I'll place in it.
I give both JD & Bearcat thumbs up for a couple of terrific products!