gdk771
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I posted this question on the Bobcat forum also but just realized this is probably the more appropriate forum to ask this. I have 104 acres that were clear cut 6-7 years ago and need about 60-65 acres of it thinned from around 2000 trees/acre to 600 trees/acre. This was originally a loblolly pine farm but I now have a mixture of these and other trees including sweet gum, privet hedge and other junk. I am also including pictures of my land to show how dense the trees are. I am wondering if I can use my Brown Tree cutter adapted to a Bobcat to clear this with or if I should consider hiring someone to mulch it and/or rent a mulcher. I have a neighbor who will let me borrow his Bobcat S250 to use but I don't know if it is too small for this type of use or not or if I should consider renting a larger unit. It has standard flow hydraulics unfortunately. Here is my original post..
I have a Brown Tree Cutter that I tried to use with a Ford 5000 tractor but when I backed into the trees, I could only go about 10-15 feet before the pine trees "bunched up" behind the cutter and it created enough drag to cause my tractor wheels to spin. It was suggested to me today that I perhaps use a Bobcat to 3 point hitch adapter with a hydraulic motor to allow the use of the Brown Tree Cutter on the front of the Bobcat. I found one adapter here from searching the forum
3 PT. Hitch Adaptor without Hyraulic Unit
but don't know if it is beefy enough to support this tree cutter. This thing is pretty heavy and is quite a load for my Ford 5000. If I could get it high enough off the ground so I could move it up and down to mulch the pines and keep it level at the same time it might just work however. I can supposedly cut up to 5 inch trees with this thing but don't want to try that. It mows down the small pines just fine but after they start bunching up I can't go any further. I don't know how big of a hydraulic motor it would take to drive this thing also or if my standard flow would run it. Here is a picture of the tree cutter. It is an older model from the late 90's I was told by Brown (90 hp gearbox). The newer units have 165 hp gearboxes. Most of the pines I want to remove are in the 2-3 inch range. Anything larger than that I would like to save.
I have a Brown Tree Cutter that I tried to use with a Ford 5000 tractor but when I backed into the trees, I could only go about 10-15 feet before the pine trees "bunched up" behind the cutter and it created enough drag to cause my tractor wheels to spin. It was suggested to me today that I perhaps use a Bobcat to 3 point hitch adapter with a hydraulic motor to allow the use of the Brown Tree Cutter on the front of the Bobcat. I found one adapter here from searching the forum
3 PT. Hitch Adaptor without Hyraulic Unit
but don't know if it is beefy enough to support this tree cutter. This thing is pretty heavy and is quite a load for my Ford 5000. If I could get it high enough off the ground so I could move it up and down to mulch the pines and keep it level at the same time it might just work however. I can supposedly cut up to 5 inch trees with this thing but don't want to try that. It mows down the small pines just fine but after they start bunching up I can't go any further. I don't know how big of a hydraulic motor it would take to drive this thing also or if my standard flow would run it. Here is a picture of the tree cutter. It is an older model from the late 90's I was told by Brown (90 hp gearbox). The newer units have 165 hp gearboxes. Most of the pines I want to remove are in the 2-3 inch range. Anything larger than that I would like to save.