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Mulching in New England is to be working in rock all the time! Carbide teeth help a lot!

@@thirdhandearthworks I operate out of Suffield, CT, right around the corner from you, so I see what you see while mulching. Hitting rocks while mulching is one thing but mulching a stone wall, to me, is next level to my wallet's mind.

@@timberhitchllc oh hello neighbor! For what it's worth I didn't actually mulch on the wall itself, came back and hit it with a string trimmer to get the last bits off the wall :-)

We should chat sometime, shoot me an email at info@thirdhandearthworks.com or DM on Instagram or something

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Glad you found it useful!

I'm very happy you got something out of it!

@@thirdhandearthworks thanks for the video!

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The mulched up debris will keep weeds at bay for a little while but when new growth does start to reemerge it will be so small that you can handle it with a string trimmer. The trick is not letting it go too long!

@@thirdhandearthworks Cool. Thanks for the reply.

The reality is, not one of my mulching customers has ever maintained an area I've cleared for them. The realistic expectation is that mulching is a maintenance item, just like lawn mowing. Frequency depends on the customers needs/wants. Sometimes it's a local blight issue that needs to be remidied, sometimes it's to keep things under "control" and growing to the "next level" that might require a tree service, but most times, it's for vanity. After the first mulching, subsequent service almost always goes faster.

That's interesting, I have many clients who keep up on the new growth usually with a string trimmer. Maybe it's a matter of scale, We specialize in small to medium mulching jobs, it's very common for us to be working in people's backyards etc

Any medium sized trees that were in this jungle were totally infested with several kinds of invasive vines. None of them would be healthy trees.

Thanks Greg!

This one has 19gpm out the second aux line and the head is nicely matched to that flow. Indeco IMH4.

Yes and no. The head has a very stout housing over that end of the mulcher that is shaped in a way that makes it mate up nicely with the thumb and despite all my attempts I still have not crushed it! That said, that part of the mulcher lacks any sort of teeth so some things can be slippery. Teeth on the head would make this an even better setup. Also it's worth noting that this machine has dual AUX hydraulic lines which is why the mulcher and the thumb both work at the same time.

@@thirdhandearthworks well, it seems that having use of a thumb would be incredibly useful while the mulching head is attached…in conjunction with a beefed up head housing which would also allow you to “push” small logs out of the way. Someone should make such a tool…

Hey now, it's a 5-ton machine! :-) Yes it is an indeco IMH4

This work was done at the very beginning of spring so a lot of what would normally grow here had not come up yet. Mulching down everything before it could grow leaves made for a much less dramatic difference but has vastly reduced the available tick habitat for this year. The forsythia was left at the customers request for aesthetic purposes.

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Agreed, love it when I can transform a property in just one day :-)

Let us know when you want to get on our schedule!

Thinks I'm glad you enjoyed it. I ordered this machine with a second auxiliary circuit out front so the thumb is plumbed to the first one and the mulcher is plumbed to the higher flow secondary

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Indeco IMH4, simple but tough as nails

It was close to a half acre total and 90% of that was dead!

It's good to avoid hitting rocks but unfortunately it's part of running a mulcher head. I'm in New England where some properties are full of rocks of all sizes so I run carbide teeth in the mulching head which handles the rocks a lot better than standard steel knives. Also for what it's worth there are always rocks hiding under the dirt so the snow doesn't make it that much worse!

They knew the cabin was there, they could just barely see it from their house but they had never been able to get up close to it because of all the overgrown underbrush

Yup, even on the coldest day it's an unbeatable view!

I definitely enjoy it, there is nothing like the one-day transformation of a customer's property and their amazed reaction. Plus where else can you make the world a more beautiful place by destroying things? :-) as far as profit, it's paying the bills which is all I can ask for.

Indeco IMH4, it's a tough little unit, paired perfectly to the KX040-4

@@thirdhandearthworks Nice, that’s a brand my dealer talked about up here in northern MA… Mind sharing what I should expect for it to cost? I was leaning towards the FAE brand so still doing the RUclips research of pros and cons

@@basajacosaja2735 it was around $16k about 3 years ago ...

Also I hate to talk trash about this head because it has performed so well but one big downside is there are no aftermarket teeth available for it so you're kind of locked into what the dealer can get for you. A set of non carbide knives will run about $650! Other brands of heads have third party aftermarket teeth available for much cheaper

@@thirdhandearthworks Oh Wow, that’s not talking trash that’s talkin truth, and I appreciate it because I can probly buy a lot of teeth for the difference in price

That's exactly how I got my rig all cleaned off today 😁

Lol I knew somebody would catch that! I gave the mats a deep cleaning the week before but then took it out on a job and got it all muddy again 🙂

@@thirdhandearthworks ya, those are hard to actually clean

@@chuckles819 not really, the mats come out easily and I just toss them into the sink to be sprayed and scrubbed clean.