Your Advices for New Rotary Cutter Design

[cglaser104]

OP has left the building.

He was doing research for a foreign business and refused to identify in which country. Before I realized his agenda, I bit. Then it got creepy.

Who cares, honestly? Guy has the ears and eyes of someone looking to build a better mouse trap then let him. In doing so any other company who would want to can read this same information and use it. (The ETA guys are on here all the time and are a proud US manufacturer) If whomever he was researching for deploys these design ideas and they are loved by the marketplace others will adopt similar changes. It's part of the evolution of ideas/deployment of them. The guys at ETA constantly tear down competitive equipment and improve it, is this really any different?

 

[ArlyA]

This thread was not creepy. The OP asked what users would like. Some folks responded with respect.

 

[Ford850]

IF someone told me to design the best rotary cutter I could, well......after owning this one for a while now,

I'd say I can't think of anything I'd change on it! It's a brush eating SOB!!

It works GREAT on grass, brush and small tree's, it just gobbles them up and spits out what's left of them!

It's easily the best cutter I've ever run and I'm betting it will still be here when I take my eternal dirt nap!!

Get them while you can boys, there's a new "bean counter design" coming down the pike!!!

SR

I have one just like that and everything you just said is the truth. It痴 the best of the best.

I'll pile on to these posts. I bought the same Woods BB720 a few months ago. I have the chain guards on mine too which really help tame the chunks of wood from flying out. I sometimes drop it low as I pass over some of my lawn just for grins. It trims my lawn like a golf course, not that I plan to use it for that type of mowing or expect the sharp blades to last, but man what a smooth clean cut. In the heavy stuff it is a beast, and "brush eating SOB" sums it up well. I had some areas of Black Locust trees, most from 2 - 3" diameter and way over my roll bar height of 8'. It chopped them to shreds, and I could drop the mower to the skids and pass over the area again to clean the stumps flush with the ground. 8' weeds and grass are mulched to nothing on the first pass. This has been everything I hoped to have in a heavier cutter.

 

[Shaneard]

I'll pile on to these posts. I bought the same Woods BB720 a few months ago. I have the chain guards on mine too which really help tame the chunks of wood from flying out. I sometimes drop it low as I pass over some of my lawn just for grins. It trims my lawn like a golf course, not that I plan to use it for that type of mowing or expect the sharp blades to last, but man what a smooth clean cut. In the heavy stuff it is a beast, and "brush eating SOB" sums it up well. I had some areas of Black Locust trees, most from 2 - 3" diameter and way over my roll bar height of 8'. It chopped them to shreds, and I could drop the mower to the skids and pass over the area again to clean the stumps flush with the ground. 8' weeds and grass are mulched to nothing on the first pass. This has been everything I hoped to have in a heavier cutter.

Here’s some I did recently with the Woods, the first picture those are briars about 6-8’ tall. The second and third are really thick grass with a mix of small trees. I haven’t sharpened my blades in 3 years. I’m sure they need it but it still cuts great.

This Woods had a belt on the front when I bought it, it tore up pretty quick so I made a chain holder and put chains on the front. It also had a piece of metal on the back and I took it off so stuff would exit instead of being mulched. I want to put chains on the back soon.





I went to the local hardware store and told the owner I needed 56 pieces of chain, he said come here and I'll show you how to cut them.

 

[Diggin It]

I see one thing with these that no one has mentioned (that I've noticed) in this creepy thread which was probably a farce from the git-go.


Side swing. The Woods picture shows why. Unless you have a cutter wide enough to get outside both tire tracks, you'll always be driving over at least some brush. Yes, there are side mounted cutters, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to swing/slide a standard cutter to one side by two to three feet at will? Maybe even hydraulically? Might be a challenge with a typical PTO shaft, but .....

 

[Shaneard]

I see one thing with these that no one has mentioned (that I've noticed) in this creepy thread which was probably a farce from the git-go.


Side swing. The Woods picture shows why. Unless you have a cutter wide enough to get outside both tire tracks, you'll always be driving over at least some brush. Yes, there are side mounted cutters, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to swing/slide a standard cutter to one side by two to three feet at will? Maybe even hydraulically? Might be a challenge with a typical PTO shaft, but .....

Hardee had that covered years ago with their offset 3 point hitch and centered 3 point hitch, although not hydraulic.

 

[Exchanger]

Dear all,

I am still here and checking your posts, still trying to give my best efford to create right products for you. Some of you get the point and said something like this: "Maybe some brands see this posts and hear our voice!" I don't think they have an efford for this. They are not improving theirselves and they are selling same products for years. They are happy with their profit.(You are buying rotary cutter with 1600 dollar. Cost is max-max-max 800 dollar.)

Nationalists said much. I respect to nationalist thoughts. Just want to say that: i am not your enemy, but your own market is.

By the way, are you happy with price of the spare parts?

Best regards

 

[Shaneard]

Dear all,

I am still here and checking your posts, still trying to give my best efford to create right products for you. Some of you get the point and said something like this: "Maybe some brands see this posts and hear our voice!" I don't think they have an efford for this. They are not improving theirselves and they are selling same products for years. They are happy with their profit.(You are buying rotary cutter with 1600 dolar. Cost is max-max-max 800 dolar.)

Nationalists said much. I respect to nationalist thoughts. Just want to say that: i am not your enemy, but your own market is.

By the way, are you happy with price of the spare parts?

Best regards

They sell the same products for years because they are good products. Why improve something if it doesn't need it? A cutter is such a simple design and has a simple function. If you think you can make a better one for cheaper with cheap replacement parts by all means make it. Stop talking about it and do it.

 

[Exchanger]

They sell the same products for years because they are good products. Why improve something if it doesn't need it? A cutter is such a simple design and has a simple function. If you think you can make a better one for cheaper with cheap replacement parts by all means make it. Stop talking about it and do it.

Ideal customer for market.

 

[Shaneard]

Ideal customer for market.

I'm happy with my WOODS.