That Brown Tree Cutter and a grapple on the front of the tractor would be a deadly combination for clearing saplings and small trees. Thank you for the great video!
I have a Brown 472 cutter I bought 2 -1/2 years ago used. It is their brush hog line. The lightest duty cutter they make and it has a 120 HP rated gearbox with a 5/8" stump jumper. The 6 footer weighs right at 1100#. Any cutter with the name Brown attached is heavy duty.
I have the 472 also. I was amazed at the quality of cut I get when mowing grass. As good if not better than my 7.5 ft finish mower. I have owned several different brands including John Deere cutters and I feel the Brown is the best.
Now that is a mighty tough mowing machine that can chop off saplings and other wild vegetation but my goodness you don't want to be anywhere near it when its working other than in the tractor seat! Just hope you don't strike a stone - it will go like a missile.
Not as much kick back as you would get from a bush hog when it goes to chopping all up underneath. It also gives you the option to cut down and push to the side with a front bucket. Also noticed that I didn't see any sheared pins. I like the heavy hardware its made from .
I put many hours on my John Deere with a woods cage, belly pan and bucket on the front and my Browns that I think was 72”I was growing pine timber and deer in DE Ga. I found best use going
Forward. I set the blade at stump height to avoid damage and pushed over all I was clearing. The first pass took care of most of the leafy top and whatever was still uncut but popped upward into the blade. The second pass mulched just about anything left uncut. Occasionally I would push over one that wsd6”, or more and I didn’t’t want to tax my unit so I just raised the blade to clear the pushed over trunk a
I just bought a Marvel Tree Cutter which was the predecessor to the Brown for $300! Same design, but I think Brown must’ve bought out the rights to manufacture it. It has a huge Borg-Warner gearbox on it. I’m getting the clutches replaced, seals redone, and new driveline. It has a square blade carrier and a different blade design. I’ve got a 57hp tractor. Hope it can power it! I figure once it’s going, there’s so much momentum in the blades that it shouldn’t need a ton of hp to keep up. I think a lot of the hp requirement has to do with the weight too. It takes a substantial tractor to lift that thing. Having a front end loader is the only way mine is able to pick it up without the front wheels getting too light. I just bought 50 acres that was cutover 10 years ago. Hoping I can clean a lot of it up with this!
@@HollisFarmsMS Got to use mine for the first time today. Wow! Massey 253 handled it just fine! Only problem was debris falling on top of the cutter the whole time. Is there a side you prefer to cut from with the blade rotation? Do you find it’s easier to open up one lane like a road, then cut from each side of it, so the material has an open place to fall without getting bound in the other trees?
How did you make out at 57 HP with this? My Ford 3930 is suppose to have 53 hp, and I'm wondering if it can handle a 6' Brown. I believe the recommendation is 70 hp. These machines are pricey and the one lined up might be reasonable.
@@Patrioti3260 , works fine! To get it turning, you have to feather the Pto clutch up and down to get its momentum going. Once that thing is up to speed, not much is going to slow it down. Make sure you either have a loader on front or a lot of weight. I think having a tractor with enough rear lift capacity is one of the main reasons they suggest 70hp. That sucker is HEAVY! Probably 2500 lbs at least. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h9eSOlv9u5g.html
That sumgun is bad to the bone!! I would have to get me one of them little wireless backup camera's to save my neck from all that turning around. Keep the videos coming, they good.
not a expert but one of the best cutters on the market will eat most any tree or palmmetto bunches there are. only thing it don't like is fence wire a d barn wire
I use my bush hog going backwards as much as going forward. It just depends on what you are trying to cut and i have a front end loader on my tractor too.
I cut right away on the high line all most 20 years ago and I had one be hind 6610 Ford it would cut a 8 to 10 inch tree if you took your time that thing held up for several years out there we was rough on it .
You can mulch the trees also, the length of the blade from the stump jumper to the tip of the blade is the size of the tree you can cut, but don't be in a hurry those tree cutters are bad to the bone
Get used to a sore neck from turning around and looking back! I got one on a 5075E. Only thing about the Deere is the reverse gears are a little fast. Second gear is too fast and first too slow.
You will toughen up to it. Just found your channel via Cotontop 3. Like your operation and what you are doing with it. We have 100 acres here at home I am trying to manage. 8 year old pines and 2 hardwood bottoms. We have deer,turkeys, and small game. No hogs yet thankfully but I fear it is a matter of time we will have them too.
have one i pull behind my john deere 2940. and or big wheel john deere 4020. mine is a little older bought off the state of alabama. and for shits and giggles wanted to see what it would do. so down went light pole. they are mean machines. mulches everything it comes in contact with. it has a 3 and a half foot 1 inch piece of round steel under with four blades that are 3/4 inch thick.
You should not be RPMs a lot higher the faster you go through it the better it is for the machine the faster you go through it the faster it chews up the mulch. The less where you put on the shaft on the initial contact
I sure like how that thing cuts, only one thing is wrong with it .After cutting four about 6 hours, you need to go to a Chiropractor to get your neck turned back around . nice job though... See Ya
Kind of a poor design actually... The rounded pushbar makes a lot of the cut trees fall off to the side instead of dropping them straight back to be mulched up. A straight pushbar and a couple of small 'wing' bars on the sides to keep cut trees from going sideways would make that thing twice as effective.
Doing a nice job but wish I could dig up and transplant some of those. If you could dig and burlap the amount of trees that thing would cut in an hour you would easily have 5k in trees to sell if they are straight high value oak, maple, hickory etc. Maybe a tree spade would be the more profitable way to go.....
I got a MF-4608 and it screams at ya if you ride the clutch. How much clutch'in are we do'in here? I really want one of these and want to be sure I got enough machine to handle it!
I live in far northern Minnesota bike 15 miles south of the Canadian border in the summertime I could really use something like you got there where did you get that and how can I get my hands on one I have a 400 acres of untouched land that could really use a brush hogging
