Homemade powered brushcutter?

[cleatus]

Jimy22, How about looking at one of the older fixed height 30" riders, remount rear wheels to neer center of deck and remove steering and extend frame for hitch.

 

[drmiller100]

brush gets too thick, you won't be driving the atv through it. terrain gets too rocky, you are toast.
stihl fs85 with adjustable angle hedge trimmer is the critter to have for brush.
with the hedge trimmer, i can cut buck brush as fast as it trims grass with the grass triimmer attachment.
and it will go anywhere you can walk to.

the dr trimmers are a joke.

 

[have_blue]

I can tell you right off that a handheld string trimmer needs to turn at high RPM... in the 6000-8000 RPM range to be really effective. With the larger string, you may get away with 5000, and most 4 stroke utility engines are rev limited to ~3600 RPM.

 

[Taylortractornut]

You could also make the feet per minute blade/string tip speed larger by adding length to it. Kinda like the work diametrer in a lathe the larger the work piece the slower the rpm needed to turn it. I have a friend that used chains on his bushhog instead of blades. He mounted corner bits off old dozer blades to make the ips harder for cutting the spplings. I think his pto is a 1 to 1.5 ratio. He cant us the standard swinging blades as he has alot of rock outcrops on his land. I think somone in Farmshow did this to. On a self powered rig you could use a smaller chain.

 

[goodoleboy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Years ago, I needed to mow some tall weeds. I took an old non-self propelled rotary mower. About $20 worth of larger plastic wheels and it had a cutting height of 6 inches.

Might look at that.

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That seems like a good idea.
Be careful with raising wheels as you could hit an obstacle/rock and it could be throw at you becuase the back Flap that stops debris is no longer long enough.

 

[scollins]

We have been cutting trails through an Illinois hardwood forest full of Honeylocust,Multiflora Rose, downed logs and briars for about 20 years.

A chain saw cuts the heavy stuff, after we get in to it through the MF rose with the brush cutter. In 2001, we bought a Billygoat self-propelled brusher. It goes up the steepest hills and pulls me up with it in low gear.



For larger stems, one of the Stihl brush cutters with the buzz saw blades make nice clean cuts without leaving stobs, but do not chop up the thorn bushes like the rotary brushers do.
I have an old Green Machine Forestry cutter with a Stihl buzz saw blade. ZING!! goes the hawthorns.

Below, are my ND fire trail photos. They are used for hiking, hauling firewood, ATV and snowmobile of the neighbor's, access for spraying weeds, etc.
After the trails are cleaned up, use a broad-leaved brush killer in a 4 gallon sprayer or 25 GL towable sprayer to convert the trails from brush to grass.
This works well to get rid of blackberries on the trail, etc.

In the photo, the fence line was later trimmed out and sprayed with brush killer to widen the fire break / hiking trail.

I locate my trails, if at all possible, where I can keep them mowed with a lawn tractor. The slopes that are too steep get 3-4 passes with the Billygoat brusher.



In areas of thorny vegetation, trails are the only way to enjoy a walk through the woods without a suit of armor.

SC

 

[andser]

Hello Friends

i have a big farm in Thailand around 50 HA , and had many problem with the brush cutter and the people cut the weeds , so i buy brush cutter with a japanese motor Kawasaki very happy but my staff still can not cut the weeds quick so that we can catch the begin without growing ! they say continue on the shoulder around 10kg are heavy hole day ! so now i find the same system of brush cutter with high wheeler ! but i dont have a experiences with such a brush cutter. is anyone there can inform me more about ? Lawn Mowers - Jinhua Teammax Tool Manufacture Co., Ltd.

thanks
andy