Hydraulics required to run brush mower on Bobcat 553

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trex232

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I am wanting to build a low flow 4ft brush mower for my Bobcat 553, 8.5 gpm, I picked this motor off surplus center, Dynamic BMRS50H4KS, will the be close enough to spin the gearbox, I haven't bought the gearbox yet so could go with 1.47 or 1.93, any help would be great
 
   / Hydraulics required to run brush mower on Bobcat 553 #2  
Trex:

At max flow you should get a bit over 600 rpm from the motor, which (for me) is close enough to the standard pto 540 rpm for three point hitch mounted mowers.

Will you have enough power at the mower? If your system has about 2500 psi, which is close to the intermittent maximum for that motor, after system losses and motor inefficiency losses, you will have about 10 hp to the gearbox shaft.

I did something similar with an 11.5gpm flow and 48" mower. Even light brush slows it down enough that you have to creep along very slowly. Mine is certainly an improvement over a weed eater with a brush blade, and it serves my purpose well enough, but there is not enough power to just drive through brush like you could do if the mower were on the three point hitch and PTO powered.

My mower is a Bush Hog Squealer and has a 1:1.93 ratio gear box. I think the higher ratio is used to give an adequate blade tip speed on the relativly short 24" cutting radius.
 
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#3  
It seems most of the companies that build them use the 1:1.93 gearbox, would it take less power to operate the 1:1.47, also I found one on ebay with a 1:1.6 ratio which would be in the middle would this operate better.
 
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#4  
I built the brush cutter and it is awesome it is a monster, it is my new favorite attachment
 
   / Hydraulics required to run brush mower on Bobcat 553 #5  
How about some pics and specs??????
 
   / Hydraulics required to run brush mower on Bobcat 553 #6  
What he said ^^^
 

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