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I always "knew" we were saving money doing it that way, but I never really crunched the numbers.
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It was a part time gig - decent size, but still part time. We used to sell around 30K square bales and probably another 2K round bales in addition to our own use each year. I know nothing about mulchers, but I know plenty about making and using hay. There's pics in my gallery so you can judge the terrain and what I'm mulching. I've never had my head stop spinning unless I jammed a log/stump in it. It's like anything else, you learn by doing and you have to listen to how the machine is handling the load and adjust your travel speed accordingly. If what you're mulching is big/tall, top them first. If you're not mulching on flat ground, mulch when you're backing downhill. I run the cutter a few inches off the ground going in, and then mulch going back. I run my machine in crawl/snail mode, normally about 55-57% speed. Most of the work I do is steep terrain at around 7K altitude. If I'm working flat ground, it never gets too hot. The machine hydraulics will get hot in summer months when running it hard so I end up with about 45-minutes out of an hour of productivity. I'm on my third set of tracks and third set of teeth.
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I run my engine at full rpm, which is about 2,400. I run it through mixed gambel oaks from 2" to 8" diameter and pines bigger than that. I run a Fecon 74SD HDT style with the double carbide teeth on my 2015 Bobcat T770 (92-hp). Do you have high flow hydraulics? You have to have high flow.