Waratah15
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Hello Warata,
Before you get too too far on this-
You should vistit the everything attachment site or the skid steer attachments.com and you can purchase a quick attach kit that can operate a standard PTO drive three point hitch type heavy duty flail mower with your ASV hudraulic system using a pump mounted in the quick hitch that rotates the flail mower gearbox at the rated 540 RPM using the ASV hydraulic system.
I have one question is your ASV unit a high flow unit?
Save your time and money and do it this way.:thumbsup:
Thanks for the advice Leonz, only problem is that the 3 point adaptor low flow attachment in Australia from skid steer solutions is $3097, that before I buy a flail mower!
http://www.skidsteersolutions.com.au/Skid_Steer_LF_3_Point_Adaptors_s/53.
Pretty sure I can build the whole thing for way less than the cost of just the 3 point attachment, found a much better motor now from Surplus Centre, runs at 1800rpm @ 15.5 gpm. I'm lucky enough to have a very nice workshop, lathe, mill, mig, tig and some expertise with designing in 3d cad. Just have to make sure I really get the basics sorted in terms of speccing the components. Now I realize this isn't a simple project, have a good buddy that says everything you plan in terms of time and cost for a project should be multiplied by the magic number pi
Oh and by the way, my skid steer has low flow, 16 gpm.
Any advice on tip speed of cutters most welcome, seems like it's somewhere between 3000 and 9000 fps from what I've read and been told - thats a pretty broad target....