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.