Feedback on pedestrian grinders

[Theocus]

No it drives off one side via 2 drive belts off the pulleys.

[tommer9]

Sorry to derail, but there is a possibility of a husky one coming my way...are they any good at all? I dont know any model numbers, and it prob wouldnt get THAT much use...

[Theocus]

I looked into those but heard poor reports about the Huskys, as always i could be wrong having not used one and all that!!!

[Hodge]

i started with a husky and had a lot of problems, i then got a carlton sp2010, it was a good machine, better with green teeth rather than finger. i got rid of that for my carlton 2700, remote control, takes the hard work out of it. the sp 2010 is grate for small and medium size stumps, i did do a wellingtonia stump with the sp 2010, it took 6 hours coz it was huge 5ft across. but it did it.

[PeteB]

Martin Mills of Stump N Grind used a GreenMech version of the 450 and did a 15foot stool one day including taking the arisings away. Help slept well that night mind!.

[arbclimber]

I used the rayco for a while. nice machine but the brake was useless. never used to bother with it in the end.

[patrickosborne]

:confused1:Hi all, can I have some advice please.

At the arb show in Gloucestershire last year I purchased a Predator F350/14,the build quality looked good and I,ve used various grinders over the past 20 yrs.

Within a couple of weeks the rubber stone protectors began to tear and come off, then the rubber engine mountings failed so belt tension couldn't be carried out! Thirdly the fold down stand kept falling down on its own impeding the grinding process.

Fourth, the throttle wouldn't stay open(checked the spring ...not that).

Finally this week the exhaust literally broke apart and fell off!

The machine has probably done an absolute maximum of 30 hrs.

 

Predator run a multi tip wheel on these ,are they too vicious

 

My questions are :

 

Has anyone else had issues like these with this model?

What would you do in my situation?

What should I expect when contacting predator?