Description
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With over 42 years of manufacturing experience in partnership with the Willibald company based in Germany, LIPA manufactures flail mowers and mulchers at their factory in Italy. All LIPA products are well designed, and manufactured using the latest CAD/CAM technologies, which include laser cutting and robot welders. All LIPA products use high quality materials which stand the test of time, in fact some customers have extensively used LIPA flail mowers and mulchers for over 25 years, only replacing flails/hammers and belts occasionally. LIPA has now manufactured over 25,000 flail mowers and mulchers worldwide, their quality and performance are hard to beat and they are priced less than many competitors.
Our company is Needham Ag Technologies, LLC and we have been in business since 2006. Our company is based in Western Kentucky and we strive to offer the best product knowledge in the industry. We first purchased a Lipa flail mower for our own use in 2018, and became the US distributor in 2019. We offer a range of different LIPA flail mowers and mulchers, in addition to most parts at our warehouse.
The range of LIPA TLE-FL forestry mulchers are designed to fit excavators which weigh between around 10 and 16 tons*
* Some excavators will handle a +/- 1695 lb mulcher much better than others of the same weight (there are many variables including stick length and counterweight options), so please check with us for suitability.
This TLE-FL 130 mulcher is designed to mulch brush and trees up to around 6-8″ in diameter, within areas which are often dangerous or difficult with other types of mulcher. Greater diameter trees can be mulched with this model with slower operation (much larger if its soft wood).
The Lipa TLE-FL 130 mulcher weighs 1695 lb, has a 51″ cut width and requires around 30 gallons of oil flow per minute (at ideally around 3500-4000 psi), but we require the rotor speed to be checked with a tach and the excavator flow be adjusted to obtain +/- 2300 rpm on the rotor.
The TLE-FL 130 has 30 fixed hammers scrolled around the rotor to even the load. It has 5 heavy duty drive belts from the hydraulic piston motor down to the mulcher rotor. The high torque rotor turns around 2300 rpm and has a diameter of 13.5″.
The outside of the mulcher housing is made from high strength Domex steel, and the inner counter-frame is made from Hardox, a very wear resistant steel. The TLE-FL range of mulchers feature heavy duty bearings at both ends of the rotor for long life.
This TLE-FL 130 will require 3 hydraulic lines for the drive motor (a pressure line, a return line and a low-pressure return, also known as a case drain). The front door is operated with ideally a secondary auxiliary circuit, however, if a secondary circuit isn’t available, we do have an optional electric cab control box (see attached image) which uses a solenoid to take around 2 gallons per minute of oil flow from the rotor circuit to operate the front door (12V power comes from a lighter socket). Please contact us for more information on this option that is shown in some of the images.
This mulcher comes with a mounting bracket for most excavators (please contact us ahead of purchase to confirm your mount is available). This mulcher does not come with hydraulic hoses or hydraulic couplers, we recommend 4000 PSI hoses, with 3/4″ ID and steel hose wrap. We can provide them, or you can source them locally once you know the lengths.
If it says “out of stock” please contact us to see when more will be available, as we plan to have most of the common models in stock, so they may be shipped and available soon.
Always think safety when operating a mulcher! Be sure to use the mulcher on an excavator with an approved forestry package to protect the operator from flying debris. Always keep spectators at a safe distance and always shut the engine down before working on, or making adjustments to the mulcher.
