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Post by hal on Sept 27, 2022 7:49:10 GMT 1
In agricultural terms, what is a broyeur exactly?
Situation - a friend has four horses in fields. The fields need a broyeur every year and she asks if She could buy a broyeur attachment for my mini tractor.
My translator says it is a grinder and google shows a broyeur as an attachment for chopping up small branches. I have one of these but she says no!
I have a mower under the tractor, but it is not cutting she wants!
What do horse fields need? A picture would help if poss!
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Post by houpla on Sept 27, 2022 8:30:40 GMT 1
A broyeur is a shredder, but a girobroyeur is a flat-bed mower (topper?) Is this what she means?  |
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Post by cernunnos on Sept 27, 2022 9:00:20 GMT 1
A "broyeur agricole " can be horizontal or vertical ,
A gyrobroyeur as in houpla's photo is horizontal.
I have a vertical "broyeur à marteaux" that is a lot more efficient and does a better job than a gyro.
Google "broyeur à marteaux"
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Post by hal on Sept 27, 2022 9:13:15 GMT 1
Not a flatbed mower as I have one of those!
I will give broyeur a marteaux a go - thanks!
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 27, 2022 9:30:26 GMT 1
Or ask your friend to supply a photo of what she wants.
It sounds to me like she wants the use of your tractor.
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Post by hal on Sept 27, 2022 9:42:49 GMT 1
OK - bingo! Finally there! I googled broyeur marteaux and it makes all the difference - what comes up is what I know as a Flail Mower - a device behind a tractor that shreds everything in its path. Usually used for scrub levelling. Sent her a youtube of a flail mower and got a call back - 'exactement, un broyeur...' Now she wants one, but I am not sure that she understands the reality of pulling one of these, behind a micro tractor, across 4Ha of undulating land is going to be an easy task...  Thanks for helping me get there  ! |
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Post by cernunnos on Sept 27, 2022 13:58:42 GMT 1
4 hectare is a lot for a micro tractor .
I have a mini broyeur for going amongst trees etc as well as a large one for the hard work.
Don't you have a local "big " farmer that would do that in an hour or two?
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Post by hal on Sept 27, 2022 15:53:53 GMT 1
YES! Try telling her that though! She sees the farmer next door pops in at 11, fires up his five and a half litre John Deere with a two and a half metre flail mower, trundling off in a cloud of dust and gets home for lunch 250€ the richer, and looks at my tractor, and as it is a 'tractor' - as Aardvark surmises of her - it can do the same! You just cannot explain that a small unstable machine with a pathetic hydrostatic motor cannot compete with a 300hp John Deere. It is a tractor. But woe betide anyone who tells her that an Arabian is the same as any other horse...  |
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Post by cernunnos on Sept 27, 2022 16:11:07 GMT 1
Sorry to say so ( watch out for the flack) but anyone that can afford horses , which I see as either an expensive hobby or a good money maker,can afford €250 to have their field cut ?
Buying a micro flail mower for about €1000 will get the job done for four years , then you can buy another one !
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Post by pcpa on Sept 27, 2022 18:08:39 GMT 1
Perhaps this should be a seperate "Mine is smaller than yours!" thread but seeing as Hals tractor morphed from tiny to micro in one paragraph just how small is it and how small are other members member extensions? The one I am using I don't own, I'm just its temporary custodian, it sounds just like Hals and is small enough that I could drive it into the sous sol, around the tight narrow corner and park it (mostly) in the shower while I was away! Its less than a metre wide and less than 2m long and is known as a sub compact utility tractor, it has 4wd and a front loader. My farmer friend, its last custodian, says it is vaillant and I love it! |
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