Delphicoder
Silver Member
So thanks to all the help I received over the weekend, I went with phase I and picked up a LandPride 48 rotary cutter from the dealer this am, $1245. Ouch. A dealer further (50 minutes) away was 50 bucks cheaper, but did not have any in stock. The dealer I bought it from is the same dealer I purchased the BX25 from and is 5 miles from my home. So I am not sweating the 50 bucks in price.
So anyway, here is a pic of it after I got it home, still on my trailer, and me trying to figure out how it all goes together (yes I read the manual, but it is all so new to me anyway).
The sequence is :
About to unload from the trailer. Then (not pictured) I try and figure out how I am going the man handle this 420 pound of steel. I decide it is going to handle me instead if I try that. So I wrap a towing strap to the thing and us my FEL to position it in a easy place. Unhook the backhoe and then connect the cutter via the three point hitch. All this took a while :confused2:
Wow, that does not look correct. Oh, then I see how to lower the rear by doing the rear tire adjustment. Of course I take it in just the opposite direction that I want it to go, live and learn.
After playing around with the top hitch, I think I finally have it like I want. Able to raise the front a little to level and above, then it raises the entire unit for "transport" mode. At least I think it is correct, but not really sure.
Next I connect the drive shaft thing to my pto. This is the first time anything have been connected to it. took me a minute to realize how to line things up. The cutter manual said something about making sure it was not too long. I really do not know what they mean. The shaft from the cutter was like telescopic. Strange contraption. But it "clicked" into place and seems ok.
Now it came with these little safety chains for the drive-shaft. I have NO IDEA where these are "suppose" to go. If someone can help me out here, that would be great.
Well by now it was getting late in the afternoon. But I wanted to see if I had it all set up. Actually I was pretty darned scared of it. So off in the woods trail I went in case it decided to launch all sorts of stuff.
I found a safe place, and remembered my dealer told me to lower my rpm, then engage and let it get going, then raise the rpms. So on my little BX25 I lowered the rpms as low as they would go, and then engaged. I think it was too low, because the little diesel that could coughed up some smoke, but then recovered. haha! I was not sure how I would know when the pto was at 540 rpms, so I just went ahead and put my tractor at my normal engine rpms, (like 2700) and it seemed better. I could still feel a little vibration, maybe that is normal, not sure.
So then I lowered it some and prayed I would live to see another day. I could hear it eating up some of the little brush, all seemed well. I drove it down the path, and then practiced backing up into more dense brush.
so I lived, and was not hurt. I disengaged, and decided to take it to some of the taller grass / hay that was at the top of my driveway. I put it in the highest position it would raise to and headed up there. That was fun, and that is the last picture.
Tomorrow I will ease into the heavier stuff. I plan to back into it, ever so slow, and watching out for the stumps. I hope I don't break anything or end up in the hospital! ha! I will get used to it the more I do it, I hope!
So anyway, here is a pic of it after I got it home, still on my trailer, and me trying to figure out how it all goes together (yes I read the manual, but it is all so new to me anyway).
The sequence is :
About to unload from the trailer. Then (not pictured) I try and figure out how I am going the man handle this 420 pound of steel. I decide it is going to handle me instead if I try that. So I wrap a towing strap to the thing and us my FEL to position it in a easy place. Unhook the backhoe and then connect the cutter via the three point hitch. All this took a while :confused2:
Wow, that does not look correct. Oh, then I see how to lower the rear by doing the rear tire adjustment. Of course I take it in just the opposite direction that I want it to go, live and learn.
After playing around with the top hitch, I think I finally have it like I want. Able to raise the front a little to level and above, then it raises the entire unit for "transport" mode. At least I think it is correct, but not really sure.
Next I connect the drive shaft thing to my pto. This is the first time anything have been connected to it. took me a minute to realize how to line things up. The cutter manual said something about making sure it was not too long. I really do not know what they mean. The shaft from the cutter was like telescopic. Strange contraption. But it "clicked" into place and seems ok.
Now it came with these little safety chains for the drive-shaft. I have NO IDEA where these are "suppose" to go. If someone can help me out here, that would be great.
Well by now it was getting late in the afternoon. But I wanted to see if I had it all set up. Actually I was pretty darned scared of it. So off in the woods trail I went in case it decided to launch all sorts of stuff.
I found a safe place, and remembered my dealer told me to lower my rpm, then engage and let it get going, then raise the rpms. So on my little BX25 I lowered the rpms as low as they would go, and then engaged. I think it was too low, because the little diesel that could coughed up some smoke, but then recovered. haha! I was not sure how I would know when the pto was at 540 rpms, so I just went ahead and put my tractor at my normal engine rpms, (like 2700) and it seemed better. I could still feel a little vibration, maybe that is normal, not sure.
So then I lowered it some and prayed I would live to see another day. I could hear it eating up some of the little brush, all seemed well. I drove it down the path, and then practiced backing up into more dense brush.
so I lived, and was not hurt. I disengaged, and decided to take it to some of the taller grass / hay that was at the top of my driveway. I put it in the highest position it would raise to and headed up there. That was fun, and that is the last picture.
Tomorrow I will ease into the heavier stuff. I plan to back into it, ever so slow, and watching out for the stumps. I hope I don't break anything or end up in the hospital! ha! I will get used to it the more I do it, I hope!
