Expected price to pay for a Woods BB6000X Brushbull?

[Piston]

I'm eager to get the tractor on site, hook up the quick hitch and hook up the Woods cutter, size the driveshaft and give it a whirl. I presume the starting method is to engage the PTO at a lower rpm, spin the deck up to engine speed and then increase engine speed to PTO power as the easiest on the tractor's PTO system. If not, clue me in!

That'll do it :thumbsup:

I'm not sure how the NX will be, but people with the RX6010 have complained about the auto engagement of the PTO, about how it was very "abrupt" with engaging. So just be mindful that you don't have the engine speed to high when engaging. You may want to give the engine a very little throttle (high idle) when engaging the cutter, but you'll quickly figure that out by "feel" after doing it a couple times.

 

[RoyJackson]

...I presume the starting method is to engage the PTO at a lower rpm, spin the deck up to engine speed and then increase engine speed to PTO power as the easiest on the tractor's PTO system. If not, clue me in!

That's about right...engage the PTO at idle (you might have to "blip the throttle" if the tractor starts to stall), give it a few seconds for the blades to extend and do expect some vibration until they extend.
Then smoothly increase engine RPM.

Disengaging the PTO...slow the engine to idle and give the cutter 30-60 seconds to spin down, then disengage the PTO. Slowing engine speed to idle before disengaging is easier on the tractor's PTO (this applies to any PTO driven implement).

I assume your cutter has a slip clutch....adjusted it yet?

 

[MinnesotaEric]

That's about right...engage the PTO at idle (you might have to "blip the throttle" if the tractor starts to stall), give it a few seconds for the blades to extend and do expect some vibration until they extend.
Then smoothly increase engine RPM.

Disengaging the PTO...slow the engine to idle and give the cutter 30-60 seconds to spin down, then disengage the PTO. Slowing engine speed to idle before disengaging is easier on the tractor's PTO (this applies to any PTO driven implement).

I assume your cutter has a slip clutch....adjusted it yet?

The NX series has a stall protector switch, and so I'll just need to play around with the finding the right "start up speed" as everybody is suggesting. No matter what, I want to make sure I have the procedure correct because even though it is the medium duty rotary cutter, there is a pile of rotating mass to spool up, and I wanted to make certain I have the start-up procedure right.

How often do you guys find yourselves sharpening and balancing the blades on your cutters?

Clutch adjustment wise, nothing has been fitted yet because I the tractor is still on the dealer's lot. I paid for the base tractor, and I ordered all of the available options, and it is apparently taking time to get all of them in. It is frustrating.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Follow-up:

Woods BB720X

The Kioti NX6010 HST easily runs a Woods BB720X. The Woods 720 is able to mulch pretty much everything I can get it to knock over. At one point I was knocking over a field of 20' tall 3-4" poplar. Really the limit of the rotary cutter was that it didn't cut low hanging limbs which prevented me from just tearing through the woods. I'm very pleased with my purchase, I just wish I had gotten a wider BrushBull.

 

[john_bud]

I've got the first generation brush bull 600. It mows grass,brush, bushes, saplings and up to 3" maple and oaks. Also many northern wi rocks, stumps, high spots, etc. After 10-11 years of hard use (abuse?), the welds for the stump jumper to cross bar broke free. Pretty easy weld up job. Pretty low maintenance unit, especially with how I beat on it.

Oh, it breaks blades right at the bend. Snaps them in half. Even with chain on both sides, it's scary as heck thinking about 5-7 pounds of steel flying. Keep people 2-300 yards back. I think the blades break from mowing high spots in the ground. All too easy to do on my uneven terrain.