Hello from Mid Suffolk!!

[Stumpy Grinder]

What on earth is a whoppa choppa?

 

There is certainly plenty of work. What is the cutting mechanism and what is it capable of? How big is the tractor?

It's a gnarly machine that has no modern equivalent!

Picture a upturned skip base with a 100 kg square steel plate rotating at 541RPM with a 3 kg drop down swivel blade at each corner. This is driven from the PTO which has a shaft direct to an old car wheel and tyre. The wheel sits on top of the rotating plate and drives it. It is so clever as the tyre slips under stress (controlled by tyre pressure) and is effectively your safety clutch! It also works as a 90 degree gearbox which is a weak link on many toppers. It weighs 900kg which is about all my old Ford 4000 can take with maximum weights on the front. The tractor is 40 years old and fully air conditioned with the glass replaced with wire mesh and branch deflector bars.

If I can drive the tractor over it, it will cut it. If I can't, I just reverse through it!

 

http://www.theauctioneer.co.uk/2015.november/images.3/IMG_2999.JPG

[the village idiot]

It's a gnarly machine that has no modern equivalent!

Picture a upturned skip base with a 100 kg square steel plate rotating at 541RPM with a 3 kg drop down swivel blade at each corner. This is driven from the PTO which has a shaft direct to an old car wheel and tyre. The wheel sits on top of the rotating plate and drives it. It is so clever as the tyre slips under stress (controlled by tyre pressure) and is effectively your safety clutch! It also works as a 90 degree gearbox which is a weak link on many toppers. It weighs 900kg which is about all my old Ford 4000 can take with maximum weights on the front. The tractor is 40 years old and fully air conditioned with the glass replaced with wire mesh and branch deflector bars.

If I can drive the tractor over it, it will cut it. If I can't, I just reverse through it!

 

http://www.theauctioneer.co.uk/2015.november/images.3/IMG_2999.JPG

 

Yikes! That sounds terrifying!

 

I think I need to go through first with a mulcher as I need it to dig down a bit to take out some ruts, but your mammoth chopper (!) sounds like a good bet for subsequent ride margin cuts.

Do you have a day rate for man and machine?

[Stumpy Grinder]

Getting it there would be tricky as it's too far to drive it. I'd need a plant trailer of about 7m length. Weight of tractor and chopper would be about 2500 kg so could just about tow it behind a Ranger (3500kg limit?) if the trailer was less than 1000 kg.

Could run it for about £250/day as it is a 'good cause'! I doubt you'd have a full days work though as it cuts at a good fast pace?

[shendy]

Do you need any deer managed in Norfolk?👍

[Paul Smith]

I drive a White Ford Ranger that I bought off some dodgy geezer who I see is on here - be sure to wave back!

 

 

🙈🙊🖕🙄 still going strong!

[the village idiot]

Getting it there would be tricky as it's too far to drive it. I'd need a plant trailer of about 7m length. Weight of tractor and chopper would be about 2500 kg so could just about tow it behind a Ranger (3500kg limit?) if the trailer was less than 1000 kg.

Could run it for about £250/day as it is a 'good cause'! I doubt you'd have a full days work though as it cuts at a good fast pace?

 

Thanks SG, I think I could certainly find a day's work for it.

I'll probably go through with a big mulcher first and then see where we're at. Will keep in touch.

 

All the best, G.

[Stumpy Grinder]

Can I drive it?

If you think stump grinders are scary dangerous machines, check this out!

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SG

[the village idiot]

Can I drive it?

If you think stump grinders are scary dangerous machines, check this out!

SG

 

 

Yup, that's the sort of thing I'm looking at. Just got to find a way to convince myself that it's low impact!

 

I would obviously go through first and salvage any usable resource.