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Best Buy Rotary Cutter
Mack Myers, Kirbyville, Texas: “My 2018 Modern Ag Products loader-mounted, Path Slayer rotary cutter, designed to clear overgrown roadways and ditch banks, is built tough and works great (www.modernusa.com; ph 800 231-8198).
“I use this cutter with my Kubota 70 hp. 4-WD tractor to clear small trees and grass around my pond and along a roadside ditch. It’ll easily cut up to 3-in. dia. tree limbs, brush, and saplings, as well as tall grass. I also use it to trim several tall hedges growing next to our house. It works fast.
“The Path Slayer attaches with a pin-style system and operates off tractor hydraulics. The 44-in. deck can be set at 11 different positions which allows it to cut vertically, offset, directly in front (level), or at a 25, 35 or 45 degree angle in both the vertical and offset positions.
“The Path Slayer weighs just under 580 lbs. To offset that weight I made a 3-pt. mounted, 750-lb. counterweight out of a bunch of 35-lb. cement blocks I already had. The blocks set on a homemade steel frame I made by cutting off part off an old car travel trailer and beefing it up with some angle iron and flat steel. I also attached a 3-pt. carrier. To contain the blocks, I welded several flat bars onto the frame that go up and over the blocks.
“I also use this counterweight with my loader bucket and forks. I like it better than any counterweight I’ve ever seen.”


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2019 - Volume #43, Issue #5