Flail Mower Let's talk flail mowers

[leonz]

Is that the same as a world famous German company called Deutz?

DEUTZ AG: Engines

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Yes it is. Beautiful engines and simple to repair.

The air cooled units can be worked on quickly as
each piston jug can be replaced individually if needed.

It takes time to remove the sheet metal and open up
the engine to expose the jugs and the indirect injection
fuel pump.

In the case of the V-8 engines the injection pump
is located in the valley between the 2 banks of cylinders.

They still have a centrifugal oil filter rotated by the cooling fans hub
that is positioned in the center of the air cooling fans air inlet cowling.

 

[electrycmonk]

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"Duetz"


They make beautiful simple to own, operate and use air cooled diesel engines.
I worked on them for years and they are so much easier to repair as they have indirect injection engines.

I went and wandered around tractordata site for dietz. Looks like the unit I got to learn on was one of the 4000 series or maybe toe 5000 series from the 1980's the wierd thing is I thought they had that green beast back in the 70's as well. /Shrugs

 

[John0829]

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Yes it is. Beautiful engines and simple to repair.

The air cooled units can be worked on quickly as
each piston jug can be replaced individually if needed.

It takes time to remove the sheet metal and open up
the engine to expose the jugs and the indirect injection
fuel pump.

In the case of the V-8 engines the injection pump
is located in the valley between the 2 banks of cylinders.

They still have a centrifugal oil filter rotated by the cooling fans hub
that is positioned in the center of the air cooling fans air inlet cowling.

Many years ago I had a contract to rebuild some 3 cylinder engines used in fork lifts for a company, they were easy enough to build but as best as I remember they were hard on crankshafts. There was not a single one of them the crankshaft was not worn significantly, enough you could see the journals were out of round. No need to mic them, just take em' to the machine shop. Other than that they seemed like well designed engines.

 

[Fundy]

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[Frankenkubota]

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I'm pretty sure the guy who cleared a couple acres of weedy trees for me had one, or one exactly like it.

The first guy came with a $35K Swedish chopper hooked onto the front of his $65K skid steer, very similar but had blades vs. hammers. Nice guy, young, very confident. Within 1 hour he had broken a blade and ripped off the QA metal strap where the big pin locates and left, I jammed $200 in his hand. My new guys says the blades are a big expensive problem.

If they don't take the stump down to grade or just below, you end up with these fuzzy short posts sticking up.

 

[TheFarmerInAdell]

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That's a forestry shredder. It has solid mounted carbide teeth similar to a stump grinder. You can get SSQA and 3-point versions of it. But good luck mowing any grass mowing with that. Turning trees to dust is the sole purpose of those things.

 

[DavesTractor]

That's a forestry shredder. It has solid mounted carbide teeth similar to a stump grinder. You can get SSQA and 3-point versions of it. But good luck mowing any grass mowing with that. Turning trees to dust is the sole purpose of those things.

That thing is so cool.

 

[shaeff]

That thing is so cool.

Got to see two Bobcat Skid Steer mounted Fecon forestry mulchers in action clearing the pipeline right-of-way. They’re incredible machines for sure.

They make quick work of nearly anything in sight. (Except rocks and barbed wire!)

 

[Alien]

I guess soil would blunt them fairly quickly?

This is the one I want.

DIGGA MAGNUM MULCHER SUIT SKID STER LOADER BOBCAT EXCAVATOR | Other Parts & Accessories | Gumtree Australia Liverpool Area - Austral | 127971841

 

[JWR]

I guess soil would blunt them fairly quickly?

This is the one I want.

DIGGA MAGNUM MULCHER SUIT SKID STER LOADER BOBCAT EXCAVATOR | Other Parts & Accessories | Gumtree Australia Liverpool Area - Austral | 127971841

That's $49.6K PLUS the skid steer , right ? All this makes me wonder what the going rate is for hiring such a machine, with operator, to clear land per acre , say in the Eastern USA ? Would it compete with a medium sized dozer? Probably so. After all the dust settles can I bush hog over what is left ? With the price tag on the machine it might be attractive to just hire it done if you have a worst-case section to clear on cleaning up an old farm.