Which Skid Steer Mulcher Suits Your Machine?

Mulchers are flow-hungry. The right head for your loader comes down to one number first: the auxiliary hydraulic flow your machine actually delivers, in litres per minute. Match that to the table below and the rest of the decision mostly takes care of itself.

Standard Flow (50 to 80hp)

Working oil flow 50 to 80 LPM. 1,250mm cutting width, 400mm rotor, 26 blades, 890kg. Double helix bite limiter rotor. Price $24,990 ex-GST. The right pick for standard-flow Bobcat, Kubota, Cat and ASV loaders in the 50 to 80hp bracket doing property maintenance, fenceline work and light scrub.

Variable Flow (75 to 100hp)

Working oil flow 75 to 120 LPM. 1,550mm cutting width, 400mm rotor, 32 blades, 990kg. Price $29,990 ex-GST. Suits mid-range loaders with higher auxiliary flow, and gives you an extra 300mm of cut per pass over the standard unit, which adds up fast across a day of acreage work.

High Flow (95hp and up)

Working oil flow 120 to 190 LPM. 1,750mm cutting width, 470mm rotor, 34 blades, 1,170kg. Triple helix bite limiter rotor. Price $39,990 ex-GST. This is the contractor’s head: built for high-flow machines running full days in dense scrub and heavier regrowth, where throughput is what you’re paid on.

All three run at 350 bar maximum pressure and 2,000 to 2,400 rotor rpm. If your machine sits on the boundary between two classes, send us the make and model and we’ll tell you which way to go.

Why a Bent-Axis Motor Matters on a Skid Steer Forestry Mulcher

Most skid steer mulchers on the Australian market were designed for North American or European softwoods. The timber here is denser and more abrasive, and the difference shows up in the motor first.

AR Equipment skid steer forestry mulchers run a Rexroth bent-axis piston motor. Bent-axis designs hold torque when the rotor loads up in hard timber, where swash plate and variable displacement motors back off exactly when you need the grunt. We leave the variable displacement motor out on purpose. A mulcher wants every litre of flow the carrier can give it, and if you ever need to pull rotor speed back, a flow control valve does the job for a fraction of the cost.

The second piece is the bite limiter rotor. Standard flow units run a double helix tooth pattern; high flow units run a triple helix. The limiter controls how much timber each tooth takes per revolution, so the rotor keeps its speed through a 100mm sapling instead of stalling and spitting it out half-chewed. Without it, a skid steer head simply struggles in gum and wattle regrowth.

That design work comes from people who have run this gear. AR’s lead designer and head fitter both spent years in land clearing and vegetation management before they started building mulchers, and the heads are tested on Sunshine Coast hinterland scrub, not a European test paddock.

What a Skid Steer Mulcher Attachment Is Used For

A skid steer forestry mulcher attachment fills the gap between a slasher and a full excavator mulcher. It’s the tool for:

• Clearing regrowth and scrub on acreage, lifestyle blocks and rural properties
• Fence lines, firebreaks and asset protection zones where the work is ongoing rather than one-off
• Lantana, blackberry and woody weeds that a slasher wraps up on and a flail mower can’t knock down
• Tight-access sites, under powerlines and around sheds where a 20-tonne excavator won’t fit or isn’t worth floating in

If the block has standing timber over about 150mm or you’re clearing hectares of dense forest, step up to an excavator forestry mulcher. If you’re keeping grass and light regrowth down, a hi-torque slasher is cheaper to run. For everything between those two, this is the head. excavator forestry mulcher page and skid steer hi-torque slasher page cover the other two ends of the range.

Ready to order? Add your flow class to the cart above, or call 1300 441 121 to confirm fitment first.

Why Buy Your Skid Steer Mulcher From AR Equipment

• Designed in Australia for Australian timber. Bent-axis motor, bite limiter rotor and frame built around ironbark and gum, not pine.
• Three flow classes. Standard, variable and high flow, so the head matches your loader’s hydraulics rather than forcing a compromise.
• Parts and service held at Burnside, QLD. Our in-house workshop handles repairs, modifications and spares. Nothing gets shipped overseas and waited on.
• Over 500 attachments in stock. Most orders ship to your nearest freight depot anywhere in Australia within days, not months.
• OEM supplier. We supply the same attachments to Kubota, Cat, Bobcat, Volvo, JCB and ASV dealers nationally.
• Finance up to $250,000 over four-year terms, subject to approval. Use the repayment calculator on this page for a ballpark.

Case in point: Case in point: Grassroots Landscaping & Maintenance, a vegetation management and civil company based at Hervey Bay, QLD, runs our variable flow head on a SVL75 Kubota clearing light brush, saplings, weeds, regrowth, dense forest, and hard wood. They’re getting through around .5 and 3 acres a day depending on use, and it has worked brilliantly for them, not skipping a beat.