Renze
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It was 8 years ago that i bought a municipal heavy duty flail mower, from a guy who mounted it on his wheeled 13 ton excavator but took it off again when it turned out to be so heavy that it kept pulling him towards the ditch. He bought a much lighter model on his excavator, so i got the mowing unit for 250 euro.
Several projects later, 5 weeks ago my friend saw a flail mower headstock on Marketplace, which i bought for 350 euro. It had all the parts i needed: Side swing, lift, and a jackshaft with 280mm 4x SPB belt pulley.
Last Wednesday i picked up a Holaras silage spreader for 250 euro, which has heavy duty gearboxes with 1.69 reduction. Off course these can also speed up 1.69 and together with a 125mm pulley on the gearbox speeding up another 2.2 will give me 2000rpm on the shaft.
I dismantled the silage spreader right away, cut out a few lengths of rectangular tubing for future projects, and loaded it back up for scrapping. Even though i'll get 25 euro less for it because its summer holiday (no demand from the industry) i wont load it up another time.
So i'm 850 euro in, will get some scrap money back, have a center gearbox to sell, and have a spare gearbox.
My neighbour is a machinist and has a lathe at home, he will lathe some bushings and pins, i must have some scrap laying around to make some hinge ears, so then i need some rolled bronze bushings and a taperlock 4x SPB 125mm pulley.
Later on i want to extend the swing arms, 60cm (two feet) of offset is fine to mow around street signs on the verge, but not enough to stick it underneath the barbed wire into the ditch along the field..
I have a three week holiday so i hope to get something done. Oh and my tractor will need an extra hydraulic valve to operate both side swing and tilt... Anyways, i can test without it.. tidying up is for later.
Several projects later, 5 weeks ago my friend saw a flail mower headstock on Marketplace, which i bought for 350 euro. It had all the parts i needed: Side swing, lift, and a jackshaft with 280mm 4x SPB belt pulley.
Last Wednesday i picked up a Holaras silage spreader for 250 euro, which has heavy duty gearboxes with 1.69 reduction. Off course these can also speed up 1.69 and together with a 125mm pulley on the gearbox speeding up another 2.2 will give me 2000rpm on the shaft.
I dismantled the silage spreader right away, cut out a few lengths of rectangular tubing for future projects, and loaded it back up for scrapping. Even though i'll get 25 euro less for it because its summer holiday (no demand from the industry) i wont load it up another time.
So i'm 850 euro in, will get some scrap money back, have a center gearbox to sell, and have a spare gearbox.
My neighbour is a machinist and has a lathe at home, he will lathe some bushings and pins, i must have some scrap laying around to make some hinge ears, so then i need some rolled bronze bushings and a taperlock 4x SPB 125mm pulley.
Later on i want to extend the swing arms, 60cm (two feet) of offset is fine to mow around street signs on the verge, but not enough to stick it underneath the barbed wire into the ditch along the field..
I have a three week holiday so i hope to get something done. Oh and my tractor will need an extra hydraulic valve to operate both side swing and tilt... Anyways, i can test without it.. tidying up is for later.