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Read articles →An owner testing a Suihe B231 tree shear, normally skid-steer-mounted, adapted to a Mahindra 1640 HST. The video is a short first-use trial rather than a deep review: he cuts a few five-to-six-inch trees, notes the shear deflects the tree sideways, and flags that the 1640's roughly 8-GPM hydraulic flow slows cycle time compared to a skid steer. Useful for anyone weighing this same attachment-tractor combo.
Posted by the Let them eat wake channel, which appears to be an owner sharing casual first-impressions from their own property.
Yes, the owner mounted it using the skid steer mount even though the shear is normally used on a skid steer.
In the test it sheared through five to six inch trees without issue, though it is rated for up to eight inch trees.
The flow rating is a bit slow, around eight gallons per minute, which makes the shear's cycle time slower than on a skid steer.
