Kubota G23/G26 and G231/261 High and Low Dump Series with Kersten sweeper

The customer for this sweeper is required to use the mower for general sweeping and maintenance all year round and grass cutting in the summer.

The mower needed to run a mid mowing deck, whilst enabling a sweeper to be connected on the front, which requires hydraulics, but the flow and oil volume on these Kubota models is not sufficient to run a sweeper.

Hence we offered a hydraulic drive unit to provide hydraulic power(18 l/min) to run our sweeper. The hydraulic drive unit consist a pump and tank; quick release couplings; adjustable volume flow control and its engages via a toggle switch.

The Kersten Front linkage we supplied comes with it's own separate oil reservoir and pump run off the tractor engine. This only allows a sweeper but other hydraulic drive attachments such as:

1. SCHN 13545 FK-ABR Snow Plough 135cm wide; 45cm high
2. SCHN 14060 FK-ABR Snow Plough 140cm wide; 60cm high
3. SLDST 70 H-FKDR Salt Spreader 70L capacity; Hydraulic drive
4. LBV-HO-FKDR Leaf Blower Engine driven

and with interchangeability between attachments, simply by pulling a pin and changing one attachment for the other.

The Kersten KM45 front sweepers may be powered by either PTO or hydraulic drive. In this case we chose to use 130cm hydraulic drive sweeper as it covers the wheel widths of the mower and its within the capacity of the machine.

This sweeper was fitted with a collector box and gully brush. The 5 row spiral brush has plenty of space between the rows to allow movement of voluminous material like snow and requires less power than other brushes to do so. The brush can be manually angled from left to right in this case. There is an option to fit hydraulic angling, which can be operated from the driving position.

The items used in this project were as follows:

1. KM 13045 H Front mounted sweeper
2. ABR brackets to fit front sweeper to the Cat 0 front linkage
3. SSB 13045 K collector box
4. ASH 4045 M Gully Brush
5. FKBH - Front Linkage for Kubota G231 High Dump
6. Hydraulic Drive Unit for Kubota G231 Low and High Dump

We also offer Front Linkages and Hydraulic drive unit for G261 series; both high and low dump version.

The KM 45 series of sweepers are supplied with garage stands to enable the machine to be wheeled around when not connected to the tractor.

Mounting a sweeper on the front of a tractor provides far greater manoeuvrability than mounting on the rear 3 point linkage and prevents driving over the material to be swept first, which could compact it under the tyres - making it harder to sweep..

Kersten sweepers are great at maintaining hard surfaces by removing detritus and debris which reduces weed growth and is fundamental to Integrated weed management.

Contact Kersten to chat about your requirements.