@@VBELTandSON wow $25,000 for that mulcher head my kubota dealer sells them here in canada for i think around $3,100 plus he ships any equipment all over canada/usa
Thanks for sharing Sam, that head with knives kicks butt over the FAE w/ carbide. I haven’t switched to the new knives because of the subsoil area I was working in. I also don’t have the tilt option which would be nice. I’m getting ready to move to new location on the property and will put the new teeth on and see if it wakes it up a bit.👍👍👍
Watching your truck in real world working conditions helped make my decision to buy my first diesel truck. Low mileage 04 Cummins 6 speed 2500. Best decision ever thank you lol
How do you decide when it is cost effective to drop trees and send to the mill. Some of these look like they are worth saving, but I am sure there are many factors at play here. .....tree diameter, quantity etc. Please elaborate....great videos
If we can get a full load for the logging truck then we save the logs. This job didn’t really have one good log so all grind them up. Trees can’t be smaller than 8 inch in diameter and needs to be 17ft or longer.
That's why I was asking you about the Bob wire on the other video ! 📌 you said you got a hold of a fence this time with this machine !🤔 My many years of experience running heavy equipment and fixing heavy equipment !✔👍😊 I know what Bob wire can do to the final drive of a dozer , it will just tear it up ! Anybody can run over a piece of Bob wire and not even know it ! 👇😡 which can cost thousands and thousands of dollars ! 🔥👉💰👈💲💲💲
Nice vid, honestly I don't see how you could have done that job much quicker. Like you said there's no way to get carbides on the head so your limited on how low you can get with it, just not worth destroying the knives.
Sam I have a question for you as well since I’m still pretty green in the mulching side of things, is there any tip to avoid smaller twine like stuff jamming up the head?
I would think the local city would have contracts where that head would be ideal. I know the road i live on and alot of roads in this area would benefit from such a tool.
Hey Sam, just came across your channel and awesome videos for the handful I have watched so far! Subscribed! Hey, have a question and I think you would be an expert to ask. This is going to sound silly and crazy. I started out about 20 years ago doing light excavating with compact equipment. Let me give you an of the fleet. Started with a Bobcat 773 skid steer, T200 track loader (recently upgraded to T770's) , 334 , 337 & 341 mini excavators (recently upgraded to E45's & E85's - 2 each) , Hitachi EX120, Komatsu PC120, T9 4x4 backhoes (4) , Leeboy & Champion motor graders (upgraded to NorAm 65E ) , Cat D3C dozer Cat 933 track loader, Komatsu D21A-7 dozers (upgraded to D21A-8EO (2), Komatsu D21S-7 track loaders (2) and 4 Cat 920's (upgraded 2 to SDLG 918F's love them!) - other equipment Red Rhino 5000+ track mini crusher , Red Rhino 3 Way Screener, Rotochopper MP2 horizontal grinder, a Cord King CS27-40 (Model 60) firewood processor and a Wood Mizer LT70 portable saw mill. I know, I know I get asked all the time why tinker toy equipment? There is even a local mom & pop restaurant called The Hard Hat where we are known by the larger area companies as Tinker Toy Construction, but its a running joke. Over the years it was light excavating, which for the most part has had lower operating and maintenance costs and has allowed us to charge premium prices with less overhead compared to most larger companies in our service area (Central Ohio). Anyways, as recycling has grown, so have we. But we still have maintained or compact equipment size. We still do excavating within our limits, but, again, we have gotten far more into recycling. We process any old asphalt and concrete from our jobs along with processing organic materials. Our small dozers and track loaders are nimble to get through woods and around small properties pretty handy and unlike the track skid steers, the compact track loaders with their steel tracks can take the abuse better of gathering , loading and processing asphalt and concrete better. Plus if anyone is familiar with any of this compact equipment, we can process on site if needed or haul back to our yard. On the organic side Sam, we have a few competitors who are also doing land clearing and are running track skid loaders with forestry mulchers as well. As you and many show in your videos, trees and brush are ground up and left... and you move on. We go in and clean all of that up and take it back to our yard to process in to compost. We also work with our competitors on land clearing rather than burning brush piles, we will process it. Anything we can salvage tree or log wise, we saw up into lumber. Other larger tree limbs are processed into firewood and small limbs, brush (with other clean organics) are ground for composting or used to make wood pellets. Okay, so here is my crazy silly question! We have a lot of Bobcat equipment because of we have a local dealer in Wooster, Ohio. So we are running Fecon and Bobcat Forestry heads on our track skid steers. The problem is when you get them on any kind of slope, you barely have any traction if at all! So we drag everything down to more level area for processing. Now with you having a Rayco C87L, you also know they are headquartered in Wooster, Ohio, my hometown. In fact, I remember as a kid when John Bowling started out in the late 1970's and went to school with two of his nieces! In the early 2000's when I started John and his company came out with the C85 compact crawler. That is why this is funny, crazy and silly. It was far more expensive than I could afford at the time and just starting out as well. So I'm looking for a steel track compact forestry mulcher that had grousers we can use on hills. I have been around Wooster and central Ohio most of my life and never have stopped out to the plant to get info. However, we are no considering getting a couple used Rayco C87L. I'm wondering if you can give any pros and cons on yours and do you have any more videos on this unit? How does it do on slopes? Do you have a Rayco mulching head on it or another brand? Lastly, loved this video and the tilt Denis head for the mini excavator. I didn't even know they made tilt heads, but definitely saving this video as we need a couple mini's set up the way you have your Kabota! Thanks for the awesome info and love the intro! Definitely following your channel to get more great insight!
F-snakes..................holy crap I would've come every which way but loose having walked up on that Sonuva................! Cool to see the DCR head on the 080 and you explain the goods and bads of it, you still think it's worth it in the end to have that on the 080 in production standpoint with not being able to lift the boom with the head running and having bare minimum flow for the carrier and head together?
Woos 31 got my heart rate up for sure! And that’s a no on the head. If we had more jobs like this maybe it would have been worth it. But I’d rather have a new trailer then the cumaf
@@VBELTandSON 10-4. I could see how the fundages for that head could've been more useful in other ways but, it's one of those "you never know until you try it" deals as there doesn't seem to be any small scale mulching like that until you're into the size of your kobelco and bigger for track hoe mulching and again a whole new set of logistics. So what about that takeuchi excavator you videoed when you and boss hoss v-belt went and picked up a new mulching head and an old one you used to own, would that be enough machine in the "mini excavator" category to run that dcr head on the 080? Not implying you should hock the 080 or anything at all, just remembered that other excavator Jim had at Global, you said in the video it was next caliber up from the 080 cuz you and hoss went back and forth him thinking it was the same size and you certain it was bigger and ended up being so. Although thinking how to spend Sam's money is alot easier than trying to figure out how to spend mine 😉............I know that suggesting you "just" swap out the 080 is not even a close to a possibility lmfao, like me saying "I'm tired of this damned G56, I think I'll "just" put an Allison 1000 in er................. ya f-ing right woos, win the lottery then go nuts all you want! Damn have to play that too to be able to win.........
Woos 31 that bigger Takeuchi might be perfect for this head but that rig was 30 something k. It was a big sucker. But 080 will hopefully be around for along time that’s my boy! But idea of a 290 Takeuchi would be a thought maybe someday. Would like to run one and a new 080 side by side see how they battle. Maybe someday I can get big with RU-vid and make more tractor brand battle videos
@@VBELTandSON I hear that Sam, the 080 and the 08 are kinda like pb and J. Or yoohoo and redbull................my father in law told my 5-6 years ago that I should do heavy equipment reviews like that for my job too, and I was like "how the hell does that work?" I'm very much old school programmed where there has to be a service or product exchanged to get paid, my pea brain isn't wired to comprehend that me playing on equipment is a paying "job" lol. But I agree with you, it would be fun!
Man when you said my name when you put your foot on that stump i was in the process of eating chick fla waffle fries and spit them on my steering wheel of my truck 🤣🤣🤣🤣
watchthe1369 you have some good hearing. Head is on a machine that is scaled for machines even smaller if one wanted. Excavators just suck for the most part Mulching. But thanks for watching 🤘🏻
rustys dirtworks sorry to hear you say that. All my videos are scaled on a sound graph. Always show in the sweet spot of green. If I see read I turn it down. I also check ever video both on my phone and on the tv before I post. Again sorry to hear you say that. I do try my best. I work 80+ hours a week and most of these videos are edited around midnight. Not always perfect video. But if that all it takes for you to not want to watch that’s fine. If not turn down your volume and enjoy the videos because This intro is my favorite I’ve done so far! But thanks tuning in and commenting I’ll triple check the sound from now on.
V-BELT and SON not trying to be a grouch, im in the equipment trade as well, always like to support a fellow operator, it was only the intro, the rest of the video seemed normal, dont worry about my opinion, I just wondered, why it was so loud
rustys dirtworks all good brother! Funny when I put the song to the video it sounded quieter than normal songs. Idk computers do what they want sometimes. But take it easy and stay safe out there
great piece of kit , 22,000 ? you wont be around long enough to ever pay that off if you keep using that bluetooth in your ears . you must know they will cause a brain tumour ! my boss wore his for 5 years and it gave him a huge brain tumour that changed his personality at first from a mean git to a giving nice bloke , then in one day he crashes his bmw, then his van and then my van ! he went to see the Doc and was dead in 3 months. put the bluetooth in the bin buddy and be around to pay off your shit !
