Raytree drum mulcher

[Lineman North Florida]

No experience with that brand of mulcher but curious on what make or brand of hydraulic motor they use since they take a beating in that environment.

It appears to be a Rexroth brand piston motor, don't know if that is a good brand or not.

 

[oldnslo]

If it is Rexroth they are a well known and respected product in the hydraulic world.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

If it is Rexroth they are a well known and respected product in the hydraulic world.

Well that is good to know, when I saw all the numbers and writing on it were in English I felt better, they even sent me an owners manual written in English.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I didn't have a lot of time today to mess with it but I did spend about 10 or 15 minutes cleaning a section of field edge that had small scrub trees and really thick vines and it seemed to do a good job, I will post a picture of the mulch size. The only downfall that I have found was the bottom of the SSQA plate cutouts for the locking pins were to large which allowed it to be sloppy, but that got solved yesterday by adding some 5/16th's steel to help close the gap, now it's not sloppy.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I thought I would update this thread now that I have used this mulcher on a couple of jobs, it has done a really good job so far, the one thing I have learned is don't take to big of a bite on larger logs/trees or you will hang it up and shutdown your progress but I am learning and am pretty pleased so far. It had one grease fitting that required removing a cover with 8 bolts to access the fitting so I added a remote fitting and hose so I don't have to do that anymore, for the money I would recommend these Raytree mulchers to someone looking to do some mulching and not spend $25k plus especially if not mulching commercially or daily.

 

[Rustyiron]

Mulching, brush mowing to me is so incredibly satisfying. The before and after could not be more dramatic and it's like your making real estate!

 

[Btw88]

Just picked one up today after looking for months. I've had a few of these Chinese attachments and I will say that raytree is the better brand of the Chinese attachments. I have yet to run it however I have done some pretty impressive things with my 60" agt disc Mulcher and am looking forward to using this drum. Have you ran into any issues? I had a grease issue on my disc Mulcher so I may have over done it on this one but I pumped and pumped until I got tired

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Just picked one up today after looking for months. I've had a few of these Chinese attachments and I will say that raytree is the better brand of the Chinese attachments. I have yet to run it however I have done some pretty impressive things with my 60" agt disc Mulcher and am looking forward to using this drum. Have you ran into any issues? I had a grease issue on my disc Mulcher so I may have over done it on this one but I pumped and pumped until I got tired

Did you get the low flow model or the hi-flow model? I have a Kubota SVL-75-2 with hi-flow but HF on this model is only right at 30 GPM which is 5 GPM short of the minimum requirement for the HF model so I figured I would be better off with the low flow model. So far no real complaints other than what I documented in this thread, the pin plates on the bottom were to large and needed to be filled in to make it stable and not sloppy and I added a remote grease fitting hose to the one grease fitting that required removing 8 bolts and a plate to grease both were easy to do and were needed.

 

[Btw88]

I'm running the low flow on a 75-3, my pin plates are sloppy as well, mine came from the factory with the grade zerks outside of the cases so you don't have to pull them to grease it. I will they would have done that to the one under the cover on the top. Only problem I've had is getting material wedges between the adjustable plate on the rear and the drum. Which is probably just a learning curve for me. I check the teeth for tightness every couple of hours and grease it once a day, I pumped it slam full with a tube of grease and it never stopped taking grease so I'm not sure exactly how much it needs, my topcat mower blew apart due to a lack of grease so I take that pretty serious after having to rebuild it with 20 minutes of run time. I'm looking at picking up some planer teeth from extreme wear parts to see if it would increases productivity or decrease the size of the mulch. Other than all that I'm very happy with it so far

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I'm running the low flow on a 75-3, my pin plates are sloppy as well, mine came from the factory with the grade zerks outside of the cases so you don't have to pull them to grease it. I will they would have done that to the one under the cover on the top. Only problem I've had is getting material wedges between the adjustable plate on the rear and the drum. Which is probably just a learning curve for me. I check the teeth for tightness every couple of hours and grease it once a day, I pumped it slam full with a tube of grease and it never stopped taking grease so I'm not sure exactly how much it needs, my topcat mower blew apart due to a lack of grease so I take that pretty serious after having to rebuild it with 20 minutes of run time. I'm looking at picking up some planer teeth from extreme wear parts to see if it would increases productivity or decrease the size of the mulch. Other than all that I'm very happy with it so far

Let me know how the other teeth work out for you. Mine also had the 2 grease fittings on each end of the drum outside and accessible, not sure why they didn't do the same with the third on the top bearing, but it's much better now since I relocated it by adding a remote grease hose.