“Best Buy” Brush Crusher

“Best Buy” Brush Crusher BALERS Svend Jakobsen Rock Island Ill : “I bought a Brush Crusher from Westendorf about a year and a half ago I’ve already cleared 45 acres of brush and trees It required no extra hydraulics on my tractor “I go in and cut down a bunch of trees and then use the Brush Crusher to lift trees a foot in diameter and carry them out for debranching Once I remove the logs I scoop up the branches and put them in a pile “Before I bought it all I had to work with was an old tractor and a loader I looked at adding a grapple to the loader but it would have required adding auxiliary hydraulics Just the kit for my tractor would have been $2 000 to $3 000 with installation extra “The Brush Crusher uses loader hydraulics I just mounted it in place of the bucket It uses the loader tilt and lift cylinders to gather the brush with the lower arms and crush it with the upper arms “I am really impressed with it The only thing I didn’t like were the teeth on the bottom arms They were great for grabbing on but they didn’t let go I ground them off and it worked much better “I called the company and told them about the problem and my solution They said thanks and please send photos I see they no longer have the teeth on the arms It is nice to work with a company that listens to a customer’s suggestions ” Editor’s Note: FARM SHOW contacted Matt Westendorf and asked him about the teeth He says he ran into the same problem as Svend Jakobsen So the teeth are gone on all new Brush Crushers “I listen to each and every customer ” he says “If they have issues I need to resolve them If we do that we get to keep coming to work ”

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