Man Sized Hedge Trimmer

[Lelandwelds]

That's a very well done build. I hate sickle bars. Our swather used to choke on empty shotgun shells from trespassing bird hunters.

 

[Handloader109]

Really good job.

 

[PHPaul]

Are you using tractor hydraulics to run it or a separate pump?

 

[/pine]

I have a Massey Ferguson 41 7' sickle bar...I use it vertically from the 3PH...but it tends to push about a third of the encroaching brush out of the way instead of cutting it...takes more than one pass to get a clean cut along the roadway...

 

[Jerrico]

Are you using tractor hydraulics to run it or a separate pump?

I am running it with the onboard hydraulics. I added an 12 volt solenoid with quick connectors that is connected to the tilt on the joystick for the FEL. Now when I use the trimmer I just throw a switch on the dash and it changes from the bucket to the trimmer. Now I have the ability to reverse the direction of the motor to unjam the sickle so I can run it back and forth until it cuts through large limbs. The solenoid also gives me the ability to have tilt on my snow blade in the winter.

 

[TractorNH]

Nice. Now if you put it a couple feet in front of the bucket and use clamp-on bucket forks you probably wouldn't need to do any cleanup after, the forks would catch it (instead of the hood of your tractor).

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Very nice!!

 

[pycoed]

If you don't like sickle bars, how about one of these?
Mean Hedgecutter - YouTube

 

[kthompson]

I like it. Now thinking may need to consider sickle bar for pond.

 

[rd_macgregor]

That is pretty nifty! Do you need the tire chains for this job, or do you just leave them on all the time?

The link pycoed posted looks like some Mad Max nightmare contraption!