Predator stump grinders

[Chris Sheppard]

I've worked alongside the 28hp Diesel a fair bit over the last couple of years and other than a couple of little things (a wire chafing through and a switch wearing out) it's been a great machine.

 

Can definitely agree with the above comment regarding how frugal the diesel one is on fuel - the tank is tiny, yet it seems to just keep going.

 

We did tip it over once, but that was operator error (tracks tucked in and it dropped in a hole we didn't see), but it survived unscathed.

 

First mod that got done when it arrived was to fit an electric fan on the clutch housing (I think it was BigBolt on here had done the same to his) and also making sure the clutch is engaged it tickover rather than just banging it into drive at full revs seems to all help as it sounded like most problems people had in the past were clutch related.

 

There's still the little pedestrian grinder in the shed, but since the Predator arrived I think it's only come out twice, and one of them we could probably have squeezed the tracked one in.

[Stumpystu]

Yes my mistake, the 7015 does 80% of the work. The Predator taking 20%.

[Stefan Palokangas]

i got a predator 38rx, got it new. the only thing against this machine in my opinion is the amount of fuel it uses. I drive the machine with care and have not stalled it yet. Easy to keep clean aswell, grease points easy to access.