know your operating cost when mulching

[Compact1]

It took me close to 500 hrs to get the costs pretty close on my gyro trac/ASV 4810 combo...around $70 per hour for machine/head (lots of teeth and a few ASV tracks). So I bumped my rates up to cover my time running the rig and to cover the increase in fuel. What I've noticed is that my costs have gone down since I switch to a Fecon head...down by close to $25 per hour (no, I don't work for FECON). By that may change as I have only 200 or so hours on the Fecon...no bearings or balancing yet...

Now I wonder how that compares to what the Rayco guy would say...

-tmts

tmts,

Which Gyro-Trac head did you have? Was it a carbide hammer tooth or the planar?

Thanks

 

[TMTS]

I had (and still have sitting in my shed) the gyro trac Toma Ax 500H (bought in spring of 2003), which is the head that had the swinging standard pot metal teeth (no carbides). Gyro trac tried to get me to switch to the planer tooth drum model when they came out with that, but to switch over was almost the same $$ as a new Fecon. Gyro Trac's customer service was good, but to me their prices are 10-20% at least more than the competition...and they drum I had kept haveing balance and end shaft issues...

thats my two cents worth....