Boom type bank mower

   / Boom type bank mower #21  
I was thinking a little more about your cool mower and I it's important to note and highlight the brilliant use of the 2 cycle engine. Because of the extreme angles of operation a 4 stroker would not last long due to poor lubrication. You are a wise grasschopper.
 
   / Boom type bank mower #22  
Hi there,

A great piece of kit I am on the same sort of project but with Reel mowers / flail head so we can cut either grass or hedges.

Just a point though do you have any means of releasing the arm if you are caught up on a pole or other obstacle?
With this type of side arm most if not all commercial machines have some sort of sheer device (a pin or hydraulic pressure relief) - It could bend quite a few bits of steel if you do get caught.

From another aspect it would be good if you could control motor from tractor for emergencies - cut off switch maybe.

A really neat solution,albeit expensive compared to your costs so far would be to run as a full hydraulic motor setup from tractor - save having two enfgines burning fuel.

Interested to hear your thoughts - but still a really neat bit of work
 
   / Boom type bank mower #23  
WOW I missed this thread when it popped up. I have to make one of those things! Actually more correctly, my neighbor has to weld up one of those things for me as that is well beyond my welding and engineering abilities! I have an old John Deere mower that hasn't been used in a couple seasons, it works great, but we just don't use it. I've actually tried to give it away. Now I have a use for it.

Ron, you have a great idea and one that many of us can use. THANKS.
 
   / Boom type bank mower #24  
That is just to SMART: /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Very nice job, i can use something like that along my 600ft of ditches, i often dreamed of something like that when every fall i see the town come thr with their big one to clean the road sides of shrubs and undergrowth.
 

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   / Boom type bank mower #25  
Man! your town sure is nicer than my county! They come through and if they find a cedar tree (or anything) they cut it and THROW IT ON THE FENCE!
 
   / Boom type bank mower #26  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That is just to SMART: /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Very nice job, i can use something like that along my 600ft of ditches, i often dreamed of something like that when every fall i see the town come thr with their big one to clean the road sides of shrubs and undergrowth. )</font> <font color="red"> I have 3 ditches and 2 banks i could use it on. </font>
 
   / Boom type bank mower #27  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That is just to SMART: /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Very nice job, i can use something like that along my 600ft of ditches, i often dreamed of something like that when every fall i see the town come thr with their big one to clean the road sides of shrubs and undergrowth. )</font>
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Several years ago the state had something like this mounted to a road grader instead of a tractor. They only used it one time on my St. Rt highway and I never saw it again anywhere.
It was wicked and threw pices of the cuttings clear into the side of my house which is about 100 feet from the road.
That is probably why they never used it again- to dangerous and damaging.

Have you ever seen the giant machine that has a long arm with about seven 16 to 24 inch circular saw blades attached to it.
This thing will reach tree limbs that are above the wires on electric poles.
This is what the state used a few years back to trim trees and brush along my road. Quite a monster machine.
My Elect. Co. uses a same type set up except the arm with the saws hangs down from the bottom of a helicopter.
They use it for trimming trees along their right of ways.

BUDGET HOMES CO.
 
   / Boom type bank mower #28  
GuglioLS brought up a good point about the motor. I personally never would have thought about it. I was looking at surplus center and they have some 2 stroke motors. I do not recall ever seeing a two stroke lawn mower /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif But there are a lot of things I dont recall anymore /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
   / Boom type bank mower #29  
Lawn Boy made a good profit selling two-strokes on push mowers for a long time.
 
   / Boom type bank mower #30  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I do not recall ever seeing a two stroke lawn mower : )</font>
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