Quad X Power Shredder

iron man

lads

does anybody know anything about the Power Shreadder they guys have for the back of a tractor. im going up to ballymena on sat for a demo. they are supposed to cut rushes and pulp them out. it works on the same idae as a hedgecutter. I seen it down at the ploughing this year. Its built in 4-9ft machines.....Has anybody used or bought this machine? What do you thnink? is it worth the look? is it any good?

thanks

Casinoking

I didn't study it very closely but it looked like it was just a basic flail mower, there are lots of them on the market so I'd shop around for a price if I were interested. Kuhn, McConnel and Seppi also make them off the top of my head. Major did for a while too but don't know if it's still on the market, it was soft like all the rest of their stuff. They work fine as long as you give them a chance, trying to munch through furze bushes and stones for 10 hours every day will wear them out pretty quickly.

Mrmoe

Had a look at the ploughing as well. Price any where from 2000 to 10000 depending on what you get. Would be using it for rushes. Not too sure what their lifespan is like. It might be a better option than a rotary mower but they will be cheaper around 1900 for the PZ cheapest that I have seen.

mayo_lad

iron man wrote: »

lads

does anybody know anything about the Power Shreadder they guys have for the back of a tractor. im going up to ballymena on sat for a demo. they are supposed to cut rushes and pulp them out. it works on the same idae as a hedgecutter. I seen it down at the ploughing this year. Its built in 4-9ft machines.....Has anybody used or bought this machine? What do you thnink? is it worth the look? is it any good?

thanks

there worth a look at no mater what but as the above poster said a rotery mower would do much the same job, when buying any new piece of equipment you have to take into consideration how much work you are going to get out of it and how many jobs you can do with it if there is some thing else on the market that will do the same job for simmer money that you can also use for other jobs around the farm remember that all you have to do to a rotary mower to turn it into a topper is add skid plates to the bottom of the drums to raise the cutting height

reilig

I was at a demo close to home for them a couple of weeks back. They're €2000 + Vat for the 4ft 6" model and rise in price significantly after that. I was no way impressed by them. I have used a McConnell flail mower for a contractor on road verges in the past and the Quad X is very poor in comparison. They are made from very light stuff. They are ideal for the hobby farmer who has a low hp tractor and all the time in the world to groom his 20 acres or the ones for the quads are great too - if the only machine that you have on your farm is a quad. But in my opinion, they will fall apart after a few years of heavy use.

Quad x on the day were trying to say that shredding rushes added to the NPK valves of the soil that they were shread on - but as one guy said, the more you fertilise your land, the more rushes it will grow. People asked if shreading would dispearse the rush seed more than if you mowed with rotary mower which left the rushes in rows to be burned or picked up and disposed of. They had no answer to it.

Personally, i'll stick with the topper that i have. If the flails on it are kept sharp, it will do just as good of job as the Quad x and it cost half as much.

iron man

i suppose you would be better buying a brand name like MC Connell or Kuhn. you would get more years out of it. its a three hour drive to ballymena. i dont think i will bother. it handier to go to alex mills in benburb.

thanks