Help us design on our Mulcher Attachment

[bubenberg]

Here you go Dude, we like your answers. We hope not to have to purchase anything to complete this project except for material, incidentals and our FREE /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif labor.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( For this to be a one man operation....you will need some type of agitator/auger/aerator in the trailer to direct the mulch toward the pick up hose.
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This has been one of our concerns, and we definitely will include that concept in our prototype.

Thanks Very Much!

Wish us luck and have the good ideas coming, please! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[RegL]

Somewhere in cyberspace I saw an attachment for laying mulch at was attached to a loader bucket. I can't find it now but as I remember, it had a snout where the mulch is discharged. The snout was attached to a flat funnel that spaned the front of the bucket. I think it also had augars to feed mulch toward the snout. The neat part was, the whole unit was mounted on pivit points like a grapple so it could be rotated back with aux hyd and you could load the bucket like normal. At the time I think the unit I was looking at was to heavy for my pt1430 but I bet a lighter weight one could be built.
For ideas, you might want to look at agracultural equipment. way to big for our purposes but maybe could be minaturized.I work on ski jumps in the Winter and we place tons of snow and ice with ag equipment,Mixer wagons, silage blowers, grain augars,etc. Seems a lot of things landscapers are trying to come up with, farmers figured out a long time ago.
By the way, good thread. I'm looking forward to what you come up with.

 

[Rip]

Check out www.FarmShow.com They have a lot of good (as well as goofy) reader-supplied plus commercial products for just about anything a farmer or rancher can come up with and somehow cobble together.

They have over 25 years of back issues on a CD for about $40 which should provide for some entertaining and interesting browsing. One consistant theme is "how cheap and how much scrounged material can I use for this".

The thing is, among the "chaff" are some genuinely ingenious and clever ideas that folks have made work for little $$. So deffinately worth a good look for your project here.

 

[bubenberg]

Thank You for the hint! This as you say a very good source for do-it-yourselfers. Was affiliated with and Ag. University and i was "mandatory reading*. I am still subscribed to the magazine and it is a very long way from one issue to the other!

 

[J_J]

I would suggest a large blower/vac, with no less than an 8 hp engine either Honda, or Kohler This vac /blower system would be mounted on the back of the lawn tractor which then pulls the trailer. Lay a 6 to 8 in smooth hose in the mulch. If a 6 to 8 in grain auger is used, it might be self feeding, using only one person. If no grain auger is used, I do believe from working with similar situations, that one man would be in the trailer keeping the hose unclogged. The driver /spreader would operate the hose, and spray the material [mulch, pine bark, straw , rubber mulch]. Dry material is best, and the hose should be elevated so no dips in the hose. With this rig, you drive along the side of a mulch bed and throw out bunches of mulch, probably as far as 20 ft.

 

[jmc]

RegL,


Was it a side discharge bucket like in the attachment?

John

skid steer side discharge bucket

 

[bubenberg]

Thanks, brilliant find! Must be rather costly, worth to look into!

This forum is the BEST! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bubenberg]

Hi RegL,

Was it what John mentioned or possibly the row mulcher from Millcreek Mfgr. ?
Thank You very much for remembering anything at all! You stimulated John and our brains here. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[shoppintractors]

Truck mounted blower/vac listed on ebay.......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22655&item=4348805222&rd=1

Don

 

[Dustycedar]

an auger would pry be the cheepest way to go it would have to shove it though a hose to the end with some sort of on off to control the flow to u
no air or big blower would be needed
it would work like a concreet pump