Hedgecutter service: As autumn nips at summer’s heels, the nation’s hedgecutters are waking from their out-of-season slumber. Help yours through a trouble-free campaign with tips from Bomford’s senior technician Mark Cresswell, relayed here by Andrew Pearce
On most farms the hedgecutter is a winter tool. On others — typically where on-contract verge trimming features — it’ll be on the go for most of the year. Grass work is hardest: the material is denser, the head is often nosing damp soil and there’s always hidden treasure waiting in the vegetation. Hedge or verge, a clean, tidy finish not only looks better to your neighbours but places less strain on themachine and its operator. And the first step to that is effective maintenance.
Hedgecutter design has settled over the years. First electrics and now electronics have made control easier, and of course the detail differs between brands. But the core of most mounted machines follows similar lines: an arm with a flail head, a sizeable offset oil reservoir and one or more pto-powered pumps.
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