Verge Mulcher Mower

50HX

Anyone purchase one of these ?

They are grant aided thru TAMS at present which makes the v respectable money considering the price of all other farm machinery.

Side shift ones with 90 degree horizontal & 60 degree tilt can be got...thats the one I'm most interested in...v hard to across anyone that has bought one.

Any thoughts?

Plenty of brands out there on them

The Nutty M

I have the Clontrac one. Bought it in 23 before the grants. It has cut and mulched anything I have ever put in front of it.

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123657913#Comment_123657913

Thanks for the reply.

What size one did you buy & what horsepower drives it?.

Is it the one that can tilt as well?

Castlekeeper

I have a 2m Berti one, about 20 years old at this stage. They're heavy enough when extended on a slope I have had it on 90 to 100 hp tractor and its comfortable.

50HX

I've a 115hp tractor

Thinking 1.8mt or 2mtr, most of what I've to do would be flat or horizontal/30degree tilt mulching

funkey_monkey

I was previously looking at a Teagle certain of these.

Would they be suitable for majority of work being topping and just a bit of verge/hedge work?

Or would they be too slow for topping? Would presume the forward speed for them would be low.

The Nutty M

2 metre. A Valtra A95 is what is driving it at the moment. The forward speed is what suffers in heavy grass. But it's easily workable.

When I was buying it the man was trying to get me to buy a 1.6 / 1.8 metre instead. Mainly to do with his experience of a previous customer who traded a 2metre one back to him. The owner was using it on a 390T and reckoned it was to heavy for it. 2 metre one is roughly 900kgs in weight.

_Brian

topping light material with these mulching type units is ok speed wise.
On heavier stuff they do a good job but very slow going. Ours is flat side shift rather than verge mower.

50HX

Just priced a Major 2mtr mj36-210 one

Hydraulic driven

3 rotors with 12 blades

15k. 🙈 = 10k after grant

Nicer machine than the pto driven ones

I'm not sure on my flow rate to drive it yet tho or is it hard work on a Hydraulic pump I wonder

GC4

Venturi seem a good yoke, local lad has one, done work for me, leaves very tidy after it.

BeGrand2025

I use one and it’s been a great asset on the farm, especially with the growth rate of briars and hedge only increasing every year.

I’ll use it for:

• Trimming the road side verges throughout the summer for better visibility.
• Topping the edges of fields where sticks have feel or ground might be uneven by a ditch causing harm to a topper.
• Tidying up the remaining headlands where a mower didn’t cut after silage.
• Cutting under fences since the machine can be slid in and out once you reach a fence post.
• Clearing briars and saplings before putting fencing in.
• Turning it vertical to cut hedges, there isn’t much reach but it’s good for knocking briars and branches sticking out.
• Angling it down to mulch the side of a ditch.

The bad? It’s terrible for your neck. I try to use it only once a week since you will really feel it after two days on it.

It’s not a replacement for a hedgecutter or a topper but I would recommend one for the reasons I’ve listed

Ak84

For the TAMS…

If the reference cost of a mounted mulcher is €2,800 per mtr.

And a 1.6 mtr mulcher cost €3,800 EX VAT, (2,375 per mtr)

does that mean that at 60% off I would get 60% back from the 3,800, so 2,280 back to me.

So it would cost me 1,520 + the VAT on full price (878)= €2, 398

Is this the correct way of adding all up??

mr.stonewall

Spot on with the calcs

Farney Farmer

Anyone buy a deleks mulcher. See a crowd in Dublin selling them. Have adds on done deal. Anyone have any experience with them??

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123667871#Comment_123667871

CCorrect, 40 or 60% pre vat

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123668417#Comment_123668417

Yep.
1.6m with sideshift mulcher
Purchased online, delivered from Italy in about two weeks
Heavy steel, seems well made.

50HX

Still shopping for one of these.

I was up the country a few weeks back & friends neighbour was after getting one, 2mtr, 900kg, nice well built machine but he said he was throwing it back to seller as machine was far too heavy for 110hp tractor

Fine when it was down flat but any horizontal lift & you could see the back tyres sinking

Its back a fair distance tbf

50HX

https://www.clontrac.ie/product-page/compact-verge-mowers

Anyone on here have any experience of one of these for long grass/briars on thd side of a ditch

KingPanko

What's the advantage over a hedge cutter?

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123836962#Comment_123836962

Price is the main one

BeGrand2025

It’s quite different to a hedgecutter, main reasons are it works much better as a topper/mulcher. It handles almost anything and leaves a clean surface afterwards with everything shredded. Great for thorns, gorse and sticks where a topper might run into trouble + damage blades and a hedgecutter doesn’t handle grass or sticks nearly as well

On its side it can cut much bigger branches. It’s not nearly as clean or precise as a hedgecutter but it works at hacking hedges back.

50HX

@BeGrand2025

Great to see photos of it having done work

Thanks for the info

fulldnod

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123834323#Comment_123834323

U will get tams on them as well, nearly bought 1 but bought a hedge cutter instead

MfMan

Anyone have experience of a loader-mounted machine like the Slanetrac? Effective or not great?

893bet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123853010#Comment_123853010

on which scheme are they?

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123853443#Comment_123853443

Came across one last year. Lad bought one to keep his father tipping away with tractor work.

Only good if the hedge is v v light to trim back.

Can't free itself quick enough of heavy grass briars etc

He recommend staying well away from it

fulldnod

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123853493#Comment_123853493

Can't remember, it could be under pasture management