It just got a little more "creative" , I am on the hunt for a 2 ton excavator arm for the front of it . It will have a small tree shear on the end so I can snip trees off and feed them straight into a front mounted woodchipper on the machine . I will go through the paddock first with the chipper and then again with the mulcher to clean up the stumps and rubbish . Mulchers in general are too slow at processing whole trees . A chipper with 175hp driving it will chip them in seconds .
I will also be able to rake debris with the arm from tight places and direct it into the mulcher . The arm will also be able to run a small flail mower for mowing embankments etc .
May I ask. Why did you buy one new?? Around here you could get a good 3pt one that would be good to chop up and use for 3k. It would save alot more money. Or couldn't you find any?? Only reason why I don't buy one is cause a back hoe costs 6k and I don't have a tractor for oneToday I bought a new backhoe off New Holland for a 55hp Boomer .
I couldn't get a small excavator at the right price so this will suffice . I will remove the stabilizer legs and use that function and the control valve sticks to drive the tracks . Servo/Pilot system hydraulics would have been good that the excavator would have provided , but this will do at a 20k saving .
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The piece of junk I saw wasn't worn out just unwanted.To answer the last two posts . If I wanted to end up with a secondhand worn out piece of junk after I go to all this trouble , I would have used second hand worn out parts on it .