Soooo, how many feet do you think you can wind up before she shuts down, holy crap. Just shut her down, remove attachment, strap onto pallet, set it in the corner of shop and back away slowly. It was a pain in the tail just removing about a qtr mile of bailing twine from a tiller
Hope he doesn't find an old set of bed springs with it. That is, by far, the worst thing I've ever had to get out of bulldozer tracks. Seal killer if you don't discover it in time.
That’s a really handy tool, great for getting stuff on pond dams and such. My brother does that kind of mowing with a 6’ Deere brushhog on an IH-656 tractor. That thing has swivel-mounted blade ends half an inch thick so it’s up for it. He backs up to make it easier to knock down trees and can get anything up to 4-5 inches.
Congrats on finally buying your forestry mulcher! I've been following your channel for a number of years and I started a forestry mulching company 2 years ago. We have a Doosan 225 fitted with a Denis Cimaf ER150 as well as a Doosan 220 and Hitachi 200 Xazis fitted with FAE mulchers. Try one of those big boys on your 20 ton machine and have a look at the power and production rate-it's awesome. Let me know if you want some clips of our machines in action...Farmers love the product because instead of burning, we are accelerating the decomposition process with the nutrients getting back into the soil... Best of luck with your expansion!👍
The mulch will break down 6-8 months, once it gets wet & some leaf litter on top of it. The soil organisms & fungi will take it back into the soil. Will also compact the amount of branches you have to haul away from lot clearing or could just leave it. The 200' safe zone may be an issue in close quarters. Neat, be fun to see it on the jobsite.
It's takes mulch a hell of lot longer than 8 months to break down. Also once you get past the tree line, it's forestry management, not land management 🤣🤣
@@ronsmith1364 I watched a crew the power company hired as they cleared the right of way in the hunting pasture behind. They had what looked like an overgrown skid loader on tracks with a rig like that up front. As the guy got down toward the creek, he ran into something that slowed him WAY down. It was a hedge tree about 6 inches across the middle. It had been cut when the power lines were put in, 55 years ago. He never did chop it all the way up, because I hit it with my brush mower the next year. Tree stumps, if they die, will be there for a decade. The bigger pieces of that mulch will be there for several YEARS.
Imma gonna just continue to live vicariously through this channel. He’s got all the fun toys. I work remotely and I have this channel playing in the background often. Almost better than trains ;-)
Very handy for what you’re doing there Chris ! Keeping roads open, overhanging tree limbs, ponds and ditch banks, right of ways, etc. Never thought we’d see you mulching. Congrats on the new machine and mulcher! 👍🏼
Hey Chris, excellent mulching head! Nice surprise, I was almost giddy when you were teasing us with the hydraulic lines. I saw how excited you were with the unveiling. I’ve been wondering for a couple of years if you would ever get one. Congrats sir. You deserve it. Have fun. Big Al.
Chris looks like a cat with a saucer full of cream with his new equipment! An immediate advantage, among others, of this set-up is none of the double and triple handling associated with burn pits and burying ash when doing thin out and tidy up work.
This is actually a great way to clean up the forest floor! The decomposition of the biological material will make a better and healthier soil all in all. We've been testing out soil improvement by using wood chips, compost and old half-rotten hay bales on both marshland and relatively "dead" soil (hard packed, unyielding) for a couple years now. It's pretty amazing how effective it is.
There is the issue of carbon/nitrogen ratio. The micros that are breaking down the biomass will tie up available nitrogen for a period of time. I would like to see how this outfit would do on a thinning of 12 X 12 to 16 x 16. It concerns me what would happen when this head tangles with some scrap iron.
@@davidsellars4327 regarding nitrogen levels we're using clovers in between plants. Great for capturing nitrogen, and bees love it. Nettles can also be used for nitrogen capture and as leaf produce (especially if you have any fancy-pants restaurants around). For plant production it is important to have enough green plant matter/compost mixed in with the wood chips to make good growing soil though.
@@davidsellars4327 we are also very small scale (my farm is about 24 acres total) so this is mostly research for now. I don't know how large 12 x 12 or 16 x 16 is? The idea of this kind of compost-driven soil improvement and production is Brazilian where they do it in a lot larger scale though. I guess the total area we're trying it out on for now would be something like half an acre. It takes a lot of biomass to get something proper out of it. For the marshy parts we have 25-30cm of wood chips as a base layer, and then we put a wood-chip and compost mix on top of that to grow in. The base layer lets you drive heavy equipment on to it which would otherwise sink. At 25cm thickness it is a bit much to chip ourselves for the whole area, so I'm looking into getting supplies from nearby forestry operations. I presume iron in this thing would produce the same sounds as iron in any kind of mulcher. A loud clank followed by an even louder swear word.
@@martinusmagneson what I am referring to is a spacing for residual crop trees. In forestry, there is never a perfect spacing. I shoot for a spacing between trees of twelve to sixteen feet. That gives 170 to 300 trees/ ac. Planting the clover or other legume may be problematic unless it was broadcast seeded after clearing.
You are going to really enjoy that. I have a 42” Vail high speed mower and it will eat a 6” tree also. Just sit it on top and push down slowly. Congratulations!
When I cut standing trees, I place the tree between the cutter head and the chains. Helps keep the tree from flopping around as much. Works well for me. Watch out for wire and tire rims. Good work and stay safe.
Hi Chris, That is a handy attachment, brings a whole new meaning to "chop and drop" mulching. I could certainly use something like that along my creek bank.
The purchase of the new attachment is obviously a good idea, it's potential for smaller tasks in difficult places to operate, you now have most of the market covered Chris. Diversity is the mother of inventory in the contracting field, I remember queried this machine to you Sametime ago, you are mastering it's effective operations very quickly, well done Chris you are definitely a inspirational bloke of my liking, 👍👍👍👍.
I operated a TimberPro 735C with a 52inch fecon head...it would chew up 10" Dia. Fur trees from the top down just about as fast as you could push the boom down. These heads are amazing
Nice!! The mulch will keep the weeds down a bit. Definitely a good purchase. You'll probably use it more than you ever thought you would. Congrats on the new machine and attachments!
A 54” promac rotary mulcher would work good on the Volvo 220. Take down and mulch trees up to 2’ in diameters.. I have a 36 “ on a 160 Volvo and it will mulch hardwoods up to 12” and softwoods up to 20” and it take 140 litres/ min of flow to run it. And it is Canadian made.
Brontosaurus with its own 4 cyl diesel on the head. On the 220. Now your talking. Guy around here got one on a 160. Does. Hundreds of acres jobs. For the state. For bird hunting properties
@@2badger2 Maybe he's just testing it on the 'shortcake cause that's what he has at the time of delivery? I do notice the power lag when he chews into larger saplings, something the larger volvo probably won't suffer.
LOVE IT!!! So impressed with you right now. Sure you can’t use it all the time and leave a whole property of wood chips behind but where you use it will look fantastic and stay tidy longer, great addition. I hope you get a big fat crop of mushrooms to eat for your trouble too. Down the track you might even see enough benefit to get a monster one, bloody hope so. Made my day!!!
Somehow ... not quite as satisfying as seeing him simply rip things out with the excavator ... and then snapping them into manageable pieces. Kind of like a starter kit. 😁
Beautiful machine and even better attachments! Oneday maybe we will have a machine, have many requirements for one but just cant justify the investment and rent them when really needed! Great videos as always Thanks!
Remind me never to tick you off! Im 5’7”. I dont want to be shorter! That things a game changer. Awesome! Be safe and have fun! That thing would be a huge help to clear brush out to prevent wild fires for sure.
It's hard to beat a forestry mulcher on a skid steer in terms of clearing medium/light brush quickly, but the versatility of having a more compact one on a mini excavator is bound to be pretty dadgum handy. Looks like a blast!
The UpstateBrushControl boys will most likely not be impressed with your baby mulcher but then again it mulch`s so they will love it.....after hours and hours of watching your channel and the advice you give the last thing I thought you would have got was a mulcher....a very surprised limey from the UK.....Great video love the cameo from JWaL...Stay Very Safe from now on LD18
I think Hell may have frozen over. Chris got himself a mulcher, lol. Kidding aside, they are quite useful in certain situations. Just not land you're planning to work right away because of the stumps left behind.
Keep the hoses long, Chris! At least until you get the Implement "Someone" has been waiting for - The Tiltrotator with Oilquick coupler, as the first thing among other implement things for Strawberry Shortcake that will change your life! Haha!
Yeah from what I've seen they are quite literally the best thing to hit the construction scene in decades. The Engcon tiltrotator is by far the best. I think there's another one called the steelwrist.
@@lovejcdc You're are absolutely right on that. Used them for decades. Tiltrotators are what we call them as a "thing" here in Sweden. Steelwrist is a brand just like Engcon and not to forget the original Rototilt (or Sandco), which I think are the best. :D
@@uppsalahazzemarkstedt2759 Yeah I love those things lol. I am actually a bit surprised there isn't more of them in use here in America. The versatility of them is incredible. They seem really tough as well.
@@lovejcdc 95% of all excavators from minis up to midsize range here in Europe are delivered from dealer with tiltrotators! Talking about versatile diggers, I've an older Huddig, not with electric rotating seat but of course with a Rototilt all made in Sweden. There are only two decent one of this "Swiss Army knife type" Huddig and finnish Lännen. They are used year around for groundwork, powerline work or snow clearing.
Yea Mulchers are cool I watch upstate brush controll and they have the ones on front of the skid steer so this should help you clear off some of those overgrown dams so you can see what’s on or over them Congratulations 👍👍👍👍👍😉
Conversation between two Snapping Turtles, `Oh my god, Myrtle, look what that `digging fool` got now`` ` Oh my oh my oh my, Sidney,.. there goes the neighborhood, now we just gotta move.
Seems like it needs 2 positionable "flaps" that could act as deflectors and/or funnels on the infeed and outfeed side. Top hinged and "C" shaped, hydraulically articulated to allow vertical mulching and scatter management.
I just watched some older videos of y'all playing on that mini blue/green rental and of the gang at the auction. After watching them Strawberry looks huge. Personally you need to get you one of those for digging up some night crawlers for fishing. By the way, love the new shredder. Sounds like a jet engine spinning up.
Nice attachment. You really needed one of these Chris. To see what these things can do watch Upstate Brush Control. They are really hard on their equipment and nothing seems to hurt them. Seems like hitting the dirt with them is ok. Just keep some bolt cutters with you in case you hit some wire, which removes pretty easy. Glad you are happy with your purchase. Something tells me this thing will be on a lot of jobsites.
Bloody Hell, I didn't know you needed to do mine clearance on some of your projects!!! Looks like a miniature attachment for a Sherman Crab. 😵😁 PS Whatever happened to "mulching doesn't work". 😜 (OK so it does if you pull the stumps first...). ETA Seems like it's needing a little more hydraulic capacity to keep it from spooling down on thicker stuff - mebbe better on the 220?
I was skeptical at first and when you got that branch stuck in there, but it will do a good job keeping the trees from encroaching into your fields and be great around ponds! I know you know Mike Morgan he talked about meeting you. He rented a 90 or 100 HP High Flow skid steer with a Forestry Mulcher on it (big heavy round disk) and it was insane! It's a good thing he only had it a week or he would have 135 acres of farmland instead of trees! It turned everything to dirt in some places to the point he planted seed and now has about 10 more acres to bush hog! But he took the plunge and retired to You Tube full time so he has time! lol
Just like "advanced" working method with a clearing saw, the thing is to let the trees blow away from the blade guard, not against it and bogging down the saw...
Nice cutter. I immediately got pissed for you when the limb was hung up and you were fighting it off. Lol. Just like when stuff would fall on my skid steer when I was mulching with it. I tended to say alot of very bad words when I was mulching. 🤣🤣
This vid so gave me flashbacks to hot summers running a weed eater on the farm... I really wish they would have dozed that finger of trees out. Nothing like a full August day covered in plant goo with that sun beating down..
Great video and what a great attachment for your operation. I think I have the perfect name for it lol lawnmower on a stick lol or as Jose would say Lawnmower on a steeeck lol
