The Hedge Cutting Thread

[paul&mandy]

no2 trimmer pilot off now for the winter. This was Saturday and she's having our baby today.

 

[Pond digger]

This might sound a bit thick, but I know nowt about hedge cutters.
I know some rigs can only cut one way, i.e. to one side of the tractor (which must mean a lot of wasted time), but how many machines (and what make) are there that can be swung either side?

 

[Massey 5440]

Brand wise is there much difference between McConnel and bomford

 

[Massey 5440]

This might sound a bit thick, but I know nowt about hedge cutters.
I know some rigs can only cut one way, i.e. to one side of the tractor (which must mean a lot of wasted time), but how many machines (and what make) are there that can be swung either side?

Why would it mean wasted time? You can only trim the left hand side of a road and can drive round a field clockwise to cut the hedge

 

[Massey 5440]

Has anyone made a guard to fit a Massey Ferguson cab that lets you still open the door

 

[Pond digger]

Why would it mean wasted time? You can only trim the left hand side of a road and can drive round a field clockwise to cut the hedge

Granted; but things are not always that convenient. That’s not answering the question anyway.

 

[FARMER22]

Granted; but things are not always that convenient. That’s not answering the question anyway.

Bomford 81/81 will cut 8.1 meters either side of the tractor

 

[agrimax]

And the Spearhead Orbital.

 

[Lofty1984]

Granted; but things are not always that convenient. That’s not answering the question anyway.

How do you waste time? I don't understand

 

[General-Lee]

How do you waste time? I don't understand

Only way I can see if it’s not hedges on 4 sides.

 

[Pond digger]

How do you waste time? I don't understand

Well for example, a farm boundary hedge might only be accessible from one side: we have such a hedge.

 

[Pond digger]

Only way I can see if it’s not hedges on 4 sides.

Indeed.

 

[Herefordhop123]

Few from today

 

[Pond digger]

Bomford 81/81 will cut 8.1 meters either side of the tractor

Thank you.

 

[Pond digger]

And the Spearhead Orbital.

Thanks

 

[Bury the Trash]

View attachment 604504 View attachment 604502 View attachment 604500 Few from today

hardly a wheel mark ......

 

[Herefordhop123]

Was surprisingly dry! Dairy farm so he wasn’t too fussed either

 

[Massey 5440]

Anyone used a McConnell pa41?

 

[ARW]

Well for example, a farm boundary hedge might only be accessible from one side: we have such a hedge.

I have little experience of a hedger that runs both ways but they aren’t easy to handle on the other side to normal because your controls are working in reverse to your instinct.
I was hedging in a field with ditches each side, the drainage board machine was working at one side and turning round at the end and swinging the hedger round while I was working adjacent to him reversing working one sided, by the time he had turned round and got it slewed round I was cutting!

 

[Pond digger]

I have little experience of a hedger that runs both ways but they aren’t easy to handle on the other side to normal because your controls are working in reverse to your instinct.
I was hedging in a field with ditches each side, the drainage board machine was working at one side and turning round at the end and swinging the hedger round while I was working adjacent to him reversing working one sided, by the time he had turned round and got it slewed round I was cutting!

Interesting. However on long runs the 180 slew would come into its own.
I take on board what you're saying about the controls though, and I guess one side is always going to be preferable to the other, for all sorts of reasons.