Day 135 - Speed Cutting Trail Overgrowth – LaneShark LS3

[Music] [Music] w a [Music] pi [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] today is a beautiful day to be outside in Mississippi it is 90° with like 50% humidity it is beautiful outside absolutely beautiful I don't know if you can hear the wind but we also have a nice wind going really really good day to work outside and today I'm going to be cleaning up a couple Trails specifically I can't see where it is in this little screen the trail that way that's got a lot of overgrowth coming in from the top what I'm going to use to clean it up is the lane shark this is the lane shark LS3 if you're interested in more information on Lane shark go the website lark.com and you can see all the different size uh articulating rotary cutters that they have available for the front loader of your tractor you can pair up a different model for the tractor specifics uh primarily the hydraulic flow so this is a hydraulic motor that spins off of your third function on the tractor spins these blades now it's not just a normal third function it has to have a continuous flow third function so previous ly I installed The Continuous Flow section which is this right here and prior to that I already had the third function installed so third function plus Continuous Flow allows for control of this hydraulic motor articulated on its side one thing to note actually I guess two things to note number one anytime you're changing the position of something like this you always want to turn the engine off and uh not have any hydraulic pressure at all obviously but also these hoses you never want to Loop them underneath this articulating arm just keep them on top of everything and the easiest way to do that because this can get kind of confusing when you're trying to articulate this with it already hooked up I just get out there to where I want to start working put it in position and then hook up the hoses keep the hoses unhooked until the very last minute that'll save you a lot of headache and also it'll save you from accidentally putting the hoses in a different position that'll end up getting bound up when you actually articulate it so so this is going to cut the side of the trail right this is on its side of the tractor vertical position it's going to cut the side of the trail and I'm pairing it with I've never done this before so we'll see if this tractor can handle it I'm pairing it with a pretty old 5ft rotary cutter that a relative is so kind enough to let me borrow and continue beating up because it was already beat up but uh yeah I made it worse So eventually I have to cut all that out and replace it but right now now I'm going to do some double cutting cutting up there whatever Falls chop chop chop I did walk this all the way there and back uh with this camera just just for the before and after and it's it's hard to see what's showing up on this little itty bitty camera screen maybe it's bigger if I watch it on my computer screen when I edit this video but what I'm wanting to get rid of is stuff like this right these these branches continuously grow in from the side and as you're driving on the trail they'll whack you in on the side by side or whack you on on the tractor or they'll get a hold of the rops the rollover protection system on the tractor and then come back and smack you as they go around it so there's a lot of that to cut on this Trail um most of it I think every bit of it should be within the cutting capacity of the lane shark I don't think anything is more than inch and a half really uh but again we've got all this other crap that just hangs down and as you're driving you just get whacked right in the face also something else that may or may not come through on camera is all of this wash out we have on the ground this is an old fourwheeler trail so there's ruts through here and it's just not flat we'll say so I'm curious to see how crazy that articulating arm gets going over this obviously it's not a highway I'm not going to be flying through here but that is an obstacle to uh at least mention yeah here you can get a better view of all this has to go all of that has to go I uh you can't see it but right in the middle of there there's a whole tree hanging down right in the middle too all right end up talking let's get to work this w n [Applause] a [Applause] [Applause] we [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] sh [Applause] [Music] things in life that just make you smile when we got our uh when we got our first home and I was able to buy a big boy lawnmower I bought a rotting lawnmower and I cut our grass and the second time I cut our grass and the third time I cut her grass after a few times of really getting it dialed in as far as cutting the grass you have that like that moment that they talk about on what is it the car insurance commercials we can't help you we can't stop you from turning into your parents but we can save you money on car insurance right that that first lawn moment of like oh I've got a great lawn well I don't have a lawn anymore but I've got some Trails look how clean that is that is so so cool I have a feeling that this is going to be one of those moments where you're you know you're on vacation and you see these beautiful mountains or you see this this this Grand image something that looks so good to you you take a picture of it and then you look back onto that picture and you think huh the picture just doesn't have the same feeling that's the way I feel right now I'm looking through the camera and I'm like yeah I guess it looks like it's cut up real good it's nice and manicured but I'm looking past the camera and thinking man I could drive my truck through here it is so cool nothing on this whole path this is one of the main Trails on our property so I wanted to get it done first nothing on this Main path will hit any four-wheeler will hit any side by side will hit my tractor with or without the RS up the rollover protection system and quite honestly if I drove my truck through here which I could nothing would hit my truck it's the little things in life folks it's the little things today's beautiful weather beautiful beautiful day great progress on this Trail uh speaking of great progress this took no time at all I was on the track for like a half hour and probably took about 2 hours to to get everything ready to actually do this because of the camera and blah blah blah blah blah look at this Trail this is wide open wide open for I do have a few specific things to mention before I wrap this video up first thing is PPE so as you're sitting on this seat right here the blades are all off that way there's a deck in between you and the blades and then there's a right side backside and left side shroud on the machine itself to prevent anything from coming your way however a couple times when I was up in the air and it was still cutting up like this I had a few things kind of break down this way like they broke but weren't disconnected and then they were cut and then they would be thrown off this way now they were thrown over here they never did come to me uh I had one thing fly over this way as well which is the opposite direction of the rotation so that was weird uh so nothing came and flew at me however uh PPE is recommended obviously this is my little chainsaw helmet helmet and it has been an absolute awesome accessory for the tractor you always have a flip down eye protection that doesn't fog up like glasses will it's a mesh screen right there and you have hearing protection built in ready to go at all times and you have a hard hat so when stuff falls from the sky which it will around here when there's trees everywhere it'll hit the helmet and not your head I really recommend picking one of these up the second thing that I want to mention once again is that this motor is a hydraulic powered motor it's it's powered by hydraulic pressure hydraulic flow going through the system here so this tractor has two hydraulic systems uh one internally for the movement this is a 4035 H from Bad Boy H meaning hydrostat transmission uh tym Branson it's basically the same thing uh so the first internal system of hydraulic pressure is for the movement of the the actual machine the second system is all external this if I'm not mistaken is the hydraulic pump I believe this large diameter hose right here is the intake that's where it's uh sucking hydraulic fluid from the reservoir and then it pumps the fluid into the rest of the secondary or external system so that pump has to power both of these elevation cylinders for the bucket both of these curl cylinders for the bucket as well as both of the power steering cylinders down there so if you're trying to steer you're trying to turn as you change the elevation as you change the curl as you're trying to make a cut well you're not going to have maximum amount of flow going through here it's just just the way that it is so for everything that I cut today I didn't have to worry about that at all it cut it just fine but keep that in mind depending on the tractor that you have depending on the amount of hydraulic flow that you have anytime you Mo make adjustments and movements it's going to rob power from the motor so everything that I cut today was no problem but if you're going to approach something large large diameter to cut uh well within the specs of the motor of course then it makes sense to position the cutter head first and then just drive into it that way you get the maximum amount of power for the cut I didn't have any issues with anything that I cut today and I think the largest diameter I didn't measure anything but the largest diameter of anything that I cut looked to be about an in and a half nothing crazy but it did the job just fine finally the fact that this is offset to one side well of course that means that you can get right up next to some trees and cut them nice and flush without your tires getting in the way obviously but because it is offset to one side if you have a tree say like right here but you want to get around it to cut something behind it you can kind of turn around and kind of hook this around a tree or so to get even further of a reach that you otherwise wouldn't be able to get if this was just simply right there if you are interested in more information check out lane shark's website I believe it's Lane shark.com they are a made in the USA company this particular one that I showed you here this is the LS3 there are a few different models and they they just came out with a much larger one that does more than this I believe it's the Hammerhead correct me if I'm if I'm wrong you can go to the website and find out for sure uh thank you to Lan shark for partnering with me on a few videos this this has been a fun fun day and I know for sure that this is going to save me so much time in the future managing the rest of the trails which I will tackle another day I've got to get off here go take my daughter to Kung Fu of all things you guys take care have a great day and I'll talk to you in the next video for