Side hydraulic brush cutter

[BrokenTrack]

I built a homemade ditch mower for $0.00, but mine was electric and not hydraulic.

I was pretty much testing it to see if the concept would work, and it did.

If I was to build one, I would use a PTO generator, and an electric motor just to make things more simple.

 

[mikester]

I built a homemade ditch mower for $0.00, but mine was electric and not hydraulic.

I was pretty much testing it to see if the concept would work, and it did.

If I was to build one, I would use a PTO generator, and an electric motor just to make things more simple.

I was thinking along the same lines but using a hydraulic motor driving a wire whipper sniper head to cut near and under fence lines.

 

[ArlyA]

I was thinking along the same lines but using a hydraulic motor driving a wire whipper sniper head to cut near and under fence lines.

If I was building this, I'd use a head that holds heavy plastic string. We run .155 but some company's are now making 170 and 180 versions. That stuff will take out small trees.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I was thinking along the same lines but using a hydraulic motor driving a wire whipper sniper head to cut near and under fence lines.

I thought about using my log loader a it already has the boom and hydraulics. It even has the full rotational grapple on it, but it would have to be geared up so that when it spun, it would spin the cutter fast enough. I am not sure how hard that would be. A few belts and pulleys and I would think it would soon be whipping!

It would be limited too though, as it only has a 10 foot reach, and of that, only four feet down below grade.

 

[L47TLBwannabe]

I've thought about making something that could mount either on my loader or on the 3-point of my tractor and run it off the remotes on my tractor. But I think I'd just go with a sickle bar to keep things simple and I don't have to worry about a lack of flow or pressure. My father in law has a dike around his property as he lives in a flood zone and sadly the bozo's that built the dike made the slopes too steep in some places so it can pretty difficult to mow.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I've thought about making something that could mount either on my loader or on the 3-point of my tractor and run it off the remotes on my tractor. But I think I'd just go with a sickle bar to keep things simple and I don't have to worry about a lack of flow or pressure. My father in law has a dike around his property as he lives in a flood zone and sadly the bozo's that built the dike made the slopes too steep in some places so it can pretty difficult to mow.

I mow the sides of the road so about daily I feel like I am going to roll over. I never have though.

An old dump that I have to mow is the worst though. To mow it, I have to put out my arm like a crutch, then corkscrew my way around the dump. That part is easy, as it has a consistent pitch to it. The back swath is the worst because now I have my boom mower down, hill, and often have to lift it to go over stumps and debris around the bottom. Then there is the wood chuck holes at the bottom too.

On the back-swath, 90% of the time my outer rear tire is off the ground.

 

[cstamm81]

I built this a few years ago. Works great. Uses 10" saw blades. Hydraulic motor turns the first sprocket, then each shaft feeds the following one. View attachment 666044

This is very interesting. Did you do a write up on your build? If so, got a link?

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's GREAT. What are the large plastic tubes? Does stuff get caught in the chain?

I have a 3ph ditch bank mower/slasher, but anything out front would me vastly easier to use. Hard to watch where the tractor is going, what the mower is doing and operate ten controls all at once, with an out back mower.

 

[BukitCase]

cstamm81, musselmark's cutter starts here

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/319234-ideas-clearing-grown-trails-6.html

HTH... Steve

 

[cstamm81]

cstamm81, musselmark's cutter starts here

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/319234-ideas-clearing-grown-trails-6.html

HTH... Steve

thanks for the link, I've been looking for that thread for awhile!