Sno-Cat Mounted Mower Makes Trail Trimming Easy

Sno-Cat Mounted Mower Makes Trail Trimming Easy FARM HOME Lawn Mowers 31h 38 Mowing brush along snowmobile trails is not a problem for Norman Bennett Newport Vt who modified a 7-ft belly-mounted cutterbar to fit the front of a track-type Sno-Cat “Our snowmobile club maintains about 65 miles of trails and we needed an easier way to get rid of brush growing out into the trails than cutting it by hand We already were using the Sno-Cat to pull a trail groomer so I adapted a used mower to replace the front-mounted blade ” says Bennett He removed the mower’s original mounting brackets leaving just the cutterbar and hydraulic motor and its casting He used a 5-ft length of steel I-beam to make a new mounting frame He welded 4 metal tabs with holes in them onto the I-beam and then pinned it on in place of the Sno-Cat blade Two of the tabs connect the hydraulic motor’s casting to the I-beam one supports a hydraulic cylinder that swings the cutterbar 45 degrees to the left or right and one is used to pin the I-beam onto the Sno-Cat’s frame He also welded angle iron brackets onto the I-beam allowing him to bolt the mower onto the Sno-Cat’s blade mounting brackets “I built it last summer and used it to clear brush on about 1/4 mile of trail It worked even better than I could have hoped ” says Bennett “Our North Country Mountaineers snowmobile club owns the machine We paid $700 for the cutterbar It only takes about 10 min to switch from the brush cutter to the blade I just remove 2 bolts from the tabs on the I-beam remove a bolt from the top link that holds the hydraulic cylinder and disconnect 4 hoses ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Norman Bennett 188 Drown Mill Road Newport Vt 05855 ph 802 624-0720; bigtrukr@icloud com

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