Mowing Turbo's and mower dust

[jmfox]

I am considering buying a flail mower to attach to my SR80, but I am concerned about the dust. From what I am told the turbo diesels are particularly vulnerable to airborne particulates, and flail mowers produce more fine particles than rotary mowers. Has anyone here used a front attached flail on a turbo diesel? The flail I plan on using is the Bobcat, which I believe is made by Seppi and uses the SMO hammers.

jmf

 

[Duffster]

That is what your air filter is for

 

[jmfox]

That is what your air filter is for

I know about the air filter, but I also know at least one person who has a Caroni "Y" type flail who is constantly cleaning and replacing his filter which, according to him, is not necessary when using his rotary blade mower. If this is true for the hammer type flail, that I am considering, it would be a deal breaker.

jmf

 

[tatra805]

tell him to raise his 3pt a bit....

Only joking, no offence intended..

I think all depends on what and when you are cutting. In dry dusty circumstances I can see both making big clouds.
When, then yes filter cleaning is part of the job.

Just a trick i saw from some guys. They put a air hose fitting on their filter housing and route to a quick-connect at the front of the tractor. Daily they then blow out the filter housing by connecting to their compressor.

1 detail: the fitting has to be behind the filter so it blows the dust out of the filter and then out of the filter housing.

Quite impressing what cloud of dust came out of the filterbox.


If i remember correctly the Magirius-Deutz dessert trucks had this as standard equipment back in the old days with a remote cab mounted valve run from the airbrake barrels.

 

[Charlesaf3]

I have a prefilter on my turbo - maybe you can get something similar? It traps a fair amount of dust.

 

[DieselPower]

Charles has a good idea with the prefilter. If you can't find one that fits your filter you could easily make one out of some window air conditioner foam filter material.

 

[rexcramer]

Every single piece of heavy duty equipment in the world has a turbo, and most are in conditions a hundred times worse than your flail can ever produce. They hold up for tens of thousands of hours. You will be fine, but get a prefilter if it helps you sleep at night

 

[kennyd]

Every single piece of heavy duty equipment in the world has a turbo, and most are in conditions a hundred times worse than your flail can ever produce. They hold up for tens of thousands of hours. You will be fine, but get a prefilter if it helps you sleep at night

Exactly!

 

[chh]

Every single piece of heavy duty equipment in the world has a turbo, and most are in conditions a hundred times worse than your flail can ever produce. They hold up for tens of thousands of hours. You will be fine, but get a prefilter if it helps you sleep at night

Just keep the air filter clean. No flail mower will put out 1% the dust of a D6 on a hot August day building a road, well site, ect.