Analyze Disk Mulcher Design and Components

engine compartment clean. Let's go to the actual working end of the machine. Now, this is a disc. Yep. Now, I've seen them as wheels. What's the difference? The main difference is that this will mulch an entire tree in one shot. So, it's faster. You come up to the tree. I usually come up at at about a 45° angle, maybe 6 ft off the ground. Uh move into the tree forward and the top of the tree will just uh be sucked in because of the rotation. And the teeth on top grab the tree then and then pull it in. And it happens like blink in your eye. It just sucked it right in. That sounds scary and fun and exciting and something that I've wanted to try for a very long time. Yeah. So, that is a 4-in output shaft, right? Correct. Why do people want to know about that so much? When you push brush mowers or any kind of mulch to the limit, usually what ends up breaking is the the shaft when people abuse equipment. So, it's kind of a common denominator when they want to compare how one machine compares to another is they'll ask about the output shaft. So that's there to knock debris down that comes out cuz this is the exit. Mhm. Okay. And anything that comes out will just hit this very heavy door and get knocked down. So now I'm looking at the the the carriage or this structure right here. What is this called? Oh, we just call it the push frame or the push bar. So it's built very heavy. It's heavy gauge steel tubing. So this is 2x4, 2x3. I haven't seen other forestry mulchers utilizing this system. What I found during testing is that uh you'll have trees sitting at different angles and sometimes they fall over the top. Top. Yeah. And if they lay on top of the machine, you can't get them off. Right. And so that requires the operator to get out of the cab, pick up the debris, and throw it off. Well, with this type of uh machine, with that much stored energy, it takes several minutes for it to stop rotating. Okay? And so during that period, we don't want you outside the cab. It really hurts your productivity to have the debris fall on top of the machine. So this is designed to allow the debris to slide off. So this protects the expensive stuff inside here, but also this is actually protecting it now versus just having this. Okay. So we come up to a tree 45° angle 6T up. We shred that. Then what should we expect after that? Uh you can then uh lower the disc on top of the remainder of the stump and the carbide teeth on the bottom will mulch that break that up into bits. Yeah.…