Loftness’ Battle Ax Exavator Mulching Heads Feature Rotor with Built-in Depth Gauges
Loftness is offering four models within its Battle Ax Excavator line for excavators ranging from 10,000 to 88,000 pounds. The Battle Ax features a unique rotor with built-in depth gauges, which function similarly to raker teeth on chain saws to prevent the attachments from engaging too much material at one time. This design is designed for managing the amount of material being fed into the attachment than ring-style rotors, which many operators find to be overly limiting.
Also unique to the Battle Ax is the Loftness-exclusive two-stage cutting chamber. This allows the Battle Ax to process material more thoroughly than competitive mulching heads, since it has the ability to process material on two separate shear bars.
The Battle Ax Excavator line consists of the 20, 30, 40 and 50 series. Each series is offered with different motors, tooth options and other features matched to a specific weight class of excavator. All models feature convenient single-bolt tooth mounting, machined anti-wrap bearing protection and heavy-duty premium strength steel housing.
Loftness is an employee-owned company. It manufactures the VMLogix line of vegetation management equipment, which includes hydraulic oil coolers, the Kwik-Trim compact mechanical tree trimmer, and high-performance mulching heads for a variety of equipment, ranging from excavators, skid steer loaders and up to 375-horsepower prime movers. For more information on Loftness’ complete product line, visit www.loftness.com.
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