Vertical bush hog idea

[musselmark]

I would like to clear some grown in branches on old roads etc.. What if I mounted a 13 hp horizontal shaft engine inside my front end loader bucket so the shaft was sticking out the side of the bucket. Then mount a bush hog drum/blade to it and have a guard protecting the cab. What diameter blade could a use with 13 hp and do you think this would work.

 

[CNC Dan]

won't work. Nothing to hold the brush from getting pulled with the blades. On the ground, the roots holds the brush.

 

[bcp]

Long ago I had a lawnmower that had a front edge serrated or notched to hold taller material. Best weed mower I've ever had.

If you did something like that so the leading edge of a blade covering disk was kind of like a sickle mower, but with a rotary cutter instead of reciprocating, it might work.



Bruce

 

[musselmark]

I don't know the proper name but what are those articulated bush hog things that are on a boom. I see the farmers using them to clear branches from trees around the perimeter of farm fields and dept of highways cutting grass/brush in ditches. They are hydraulic. They have no problem cutting branches. How do they cut.

 

[bcp]

I don't know the proper name but what are those articulated bush hog things that are on a boom. I see the farmers using them to clear branches from trees around the perimeter of farm fields and dept of highways cutting grass/brush in ditches. They are hydraulic. They have no problem cutting branches. How do they cut.

All those I've seen around here used for cutting branches are flail mowers.

Bruce

PS: I see that Bush Hog has a rotary head available for their boom mower. Says it is for grass and brush. I wonder how it would work in the vertical position.

http://www.bushhog.com/product-line/reach-mowers/boom-mowers.html

 

[Midniteoyl]

Rotary boom mower is what they use around here.. really tears up the trees

 

[Renze]

I would at least use pivoting blades like a bush hog, i once used our Toro as a bushhog and bent the crankshaft when it stalled instantly on a stump. Pivoting blades could have prevented that.

 

[Jose G]

i've seen a sickle bar in vertical mounted on a FEL on youtube or over here... don't remember where

 

[Cbrown9064]

Like this? Brush Cutter $12k and its yours...

 

[Jose G]

vertical sickle mower in a FEL...

 

[jemclimber]

I think the sabre samuri is the bucket mounted sickle mower.. I've seen four foot pull behind rotary mowers with 8-12hp engines.

 

[stuckmotor]

vertical sickle mower in a FEL...

I want one. Of course the first thing I'd cut would probably be the 50,000 volt utility line. It would also be the last thing I'd cut.

 

[outinthetalgrass]

I want one. Of course the first thing I'd cut would probably be the 50,000 volt utility line. It would also be the last thing I'd cut.

Yea, but it would be one heck of a light show......

 

[Herkypilot]

+1^^^

 

[jimmysisson]

Have to say I hate the roadside appearance when the towns use those boom flails. I guess they save money but what remains looks like heck.
Jim

 

[chickenman]

I made a setup that does this very thing.

I used an 18" circular saw blade powered by a hydraulic motor attached to my home made forks mounted to the fel.

Power is from the power beyond on my 3410, the hoses go to a spool valve mounted to the upright for the fel and then along the arm to the motor driving the saw.

I drilled 2 holes in the saw to mount to a hub made from a chain sprocket with a 1" bore.

looks crude but works really well.

 

[cmore]

I made a setup that does this very thing.

I used an 18" circular saw blade powered by a hydraulic motor attached to my home made forks mounted to the fel.

Power is from the power beyond on my 3410, the hoses go to a spool valve mounted to the upright for the fel and then along the arm to the motor driving the saw.

I drilled 2 holes in the saw to mount to a hub made from a chain sprocket with a 1" bore.

looks crude but works really well.

Could/would u post some pictures?

 

[chickenman]

Could/would u post some pictures?

I'll try in the next couple of days

 

[cmore]

I'll try in the next couple of days

Thanks

 

[woodlandfarms]

Something you might be able to coble together

Hedge Trimmer on lawn mower by Cochet - YouTube

But instead, why not go big or go home

LiveLeak.com - Hedge trimmer for real men (comments)