Be careful reversing direction. The Lane Shark only uses a regular nut on the shaft and reversal will turn it loose. OTOH my Brush Monster cutter uses a castle nut and is designed to be run in either direction.
Looks like a great job.
I don't know your terrain, but be careful of lifting all that weight on any kind of slope. The roadway maintenance rigs around here all have counterweights
I don't see myself reversing direction for now or maybe forever, depending on how this works out. So far I have only run a few tests to see how things are working and what needs to be changed. This setup also has the cstle nut with cotter pin. I wanted to take the blade carrier off and got the castle nut off, using an impact wrench, but could not get the blade carrier off. I will need a puller to get that done. So for now I will just use it as is and after some more use I will know if I want to change the blades to flat / double sided or if this is OK for my needs.
As far as terrain goes, I would not be running this on any terrain with no cross slope but I appreciate the warning and have also had experiences with tractor roll with elevated loads. The first time was when I got my first tractor many years ago, luckily I reacted correctly and dropped the loader to the ground and the load was only a couple of feet off the ground. Tractors are not the best design for lifting heavy loads high, if there is any cross slope because of the floating front axle.
hillbilly, neat set up. I also have concern for cutting with it high in throwing trash on the tractor and windshield for your safety. If you have a rear remote on your tractor you can run hoses from it to operate the hyd cyl with great control over the 3rd function valve, well the one I have run.
So far I have not had that issue but I haven't had enough seat time yet to determine if the cab will get hit with debris or not. I have watched a bunch of videos for the Lane Shark, it's clone and the Limb Ninja and don't see them having that issue. However they all use flat blades and therefore do not create up draft.
This is my first tractor with a 3rd function and I much prefer the diverter I installed on my old tractor. With the diverter I could feather the flow to the implement with this it is either on or off, with full flow. I installed a couple of flow control valves on the 3rd function but they don't seem to make much, if any difference. Weird since they are one way, fully adjustable and rated for up to 15gpm. At first I couldn't tell which settings were more flow and which were less, so I adjusted to both extremes and soon found out which was less. Fully closed you can hear the relief valve cut in as soon as the 3rd function is engaged. There are about 10 full turns from 0 to full flow and even at around 1/8th of the first turn it doesn't seem to reduce the cylinder speed much, if at all but I can hear the valve restricting the flow and I can feel the valve get hot. I'm going to call the vender and talk to him about it.
Do the rear remote act the same way? I have 2 and was has a float.
