Rotary Cutter Rotary Cutter Advise

[DieselBound]

Nice cutter! I'd shell out $2666 (that's kind of an odd number:laughing for that. Of course, Ford Distributing is a bit closer to you than it is to me (shipping is a killer for me).

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I have a Kubota L4850 which has 42 pto horse and I'm looking for some rotary cutter advise. I've decided a 6' cutter is what I want, but my questing is. Will a Bush Hog BH26 cut bigger brush than a Bush Hog BH16 when your operating with the same pto horse? Will a Land Pride RCR2672 cut more brush than a RCR1872 or a RCF2072 with the same pto horse? I know the larger cutter has more capacity, but does it require the the maximum horse power to have the additional cutting capacity?

I was talked out of getting a a heavy Woods BB7200X cutter in favor of the medium Woods BB720X cutter by people on this forum because the tractor I was looking at only has 49 PTO horsepower. As it turns out, for brush I run my engine at reduced rpm to save fuel. Where I tend to use full power is when I mowing cattails and 3" material. But with brush, I have power to spare. The following video the engine is set at 2000 rpm.

 

[LD1]

I was talked out of getting a a heavy Woods BB7200X cutter in favor of the medium Woods BB720X cutter by people on this forum because the tractor I was looking at only has 49 PTO horsepower. As it turns out, for brush I run my engine at reduced rpm to save fuel. Where I tend to use full power is when I mowing cattails and 3" material. But with brush, I have power to spare. The following video the engine is set at 2000 rpm.

Must have missed that inquiry. A medium duty dont take any more HP to operate than a heavy duty. And alot of times, the blades are the same size. Just bigger gearbox and thicker deck and sides.

Not that the 720x isnt a good well made cutter. But powe-rwise, you wouldnt have noticed a difference if you had gotten the 7200x

 

[DieselBound]

There is, however, one other thing that I noticed when looking at the specs on various cutters, and that was that the higher-end ones tended to have taller decks, which I would assume would tend to reduce clogging (and, thus, be able to run with a little less power): I assume that the deck height is to also facilitate mowing over bigger stuff (which they're rated for). How much difference it makes I have no idea. Just seems that physics would tend to say that there would be some difference in performance.

Pricing on the higher-end cutters scared me so much that I opted to go for a used one.

 

[moonmark1980]

Got my new Brown 416 cutter last week. This thing is a beast! It hasn't stopped raining here in Iowa since it came in, so I haven't used it much yet. I did run it a little Friday afternoon at my dads place and I was mowing over 3/4" to 1-1/4" saplings and bushes and it didn't shake or stumble a bit. Can't wait to get it over to my hunting property to really give it a work out. Thanks everyone for the advise, I'm really glad I went with the heavier duty cutter and also glad I stuck with the 6' cutter instead of the 7'. My tractor may have turned the 7' cutter, but I doubt it would have lifted it. The 6' cutter is a load (1200lbs).

 

[ovrszd]

Got my new Brown 416 cutter last week. This thing is a beast! It hasn't stopped raining here in Iowa since it came in, so I haven't used it much yet. I did run it a little Friday afternoon at my dads place and I was mowing over 3/4" to 1-1/4" saplings and bushes and it didn't shake or stumble a bit. Can't wait to get it over to my hunting property to really give it a work out. Thanks everyone for the advise, I'm really glad I went with the heavier duty cutter and also glad I stuck with the 6' cutter instead of the 7'. My tractor may have turned the 7' cutter, but I doubt it would have lifted it. The 6' cutter is a load (1200lbs).

Congrats on the new tool. Hope you get many, many years of service from it. Definitely looks well built!!!!!

 

[brown40]

Love the looks of those Browns. Nice choice. You doing chains or rubber guard on it?

 

[moonmark1980]

Love the looks of those Browns. Nice choice. You doing chains or rubber guard on it?

I thought I'd try it with the standard rubber guard for a while.

 

[Raised on a Deere]

The way I read the Brown website the brown 416 is a pto 1000 rpm machine. Is your tractor 1000 rpm at pto? The 540 rpm machines are double the price.

 

[moonmark1980]

The way I read the Brown website the brown 416 is a pto 1000 rpm machine. Is your tractor 1000 rpm at pto? The 540 rpm machines are double the price.

I guess it doesn't come right and say 540 pto on the website, but it does have a 1:1.5 gear box ratio which puts the blade speed at 15,260 ft/min with 540 pto. That puts it right around the same blade speed as the bush hog and land pride comparable models.

 

[Raised on a Deere]

I guess it doesn't come right and say 540 pto on the website, but it does have a 1:1.5 gear box ratio which puts the blade speed at 15,260 ft/min with 540 pto. That puts it right around the same blade speed as the bush hog and land pride comparable models.

I didn't do the math but noticed the 1.5 gear ratio so that got me to scratching my head. If you select 540 PTO speed on the search filters the 416 does not show up. Just a glitch in the data entry somewhere in the web masters domain. Hate to make some mistake like not paying attention to some basic detail and receive a machine I cannot use. Just doing the super cautious, double check, measure twice maybe three times before you cut thing.

 

[moonmark1980]

Ya, after your response I looked at the website and seen that too.

 

[Piston]

How's this bad boy working out for you? I've cut some ridiculously heavy brush with my Brown 472 and am STILL impressed with it every time I use it. Not nearly as pretty as yours is though! I've thought a few times of upgrading to the 416 simply because it's quick hitch compatible and mine isn't, but so far they're are other priorities I need to spend my toy money on.

Congrats!

 

[moonmark1980]

How's this bad boy working out for you? I've cut some ridiculously heavy brush with my Brown 472 and am STILL impressed with it every time I use it. Not nearly as pretty as yours is though! I've thought a few times of upgrading to the 416 simply because it's quick hitch compatible and mine isn't, but so far they're are other priorities I need to spend my toy money on.

Congrats!

Great! I've only had it out once and was really happy with it.