I've owned a Woods TSG 50 for about 7 years. I've ground over 3000 stumps from my deer property for food plots and trails. The first 700 or so were with a Vermeer and Rayco self propelled grinder.....then I bought the Woods. I wrote about my experience fairly extensively over on TBN at one point. (could look it up). I bought one of the first Woods grinders.
I operated the grinder with my JD 3320 and used the loaders Joystick valve to operate the swing and elevation cylinders on the stump grinder. Simply lengthened the hoses that came with the grinder and put the proper connectors on to mate to the QD couplers. (I kept my loader on the tractor for weight and stability and would change the lift cylinders to operate on my scv valve).
This arrangement worked pretty good. I had mostly pine stumps to grind and the early stumps were getting a bit old.....so they went pretty fast. As the grinder teeth wore down a bit.....it became hard on my grinder pivots and on the tractor three point. I did get some wear to the three point drag link pivots and broke my drag links on a few occasions. Too much jumping around due to dull teeth and due to worn pivots on the grinder and my tractor - I suppose.
I put new teeth on.....and it made a big difference. As said......I have ground out over 2500 stumps with my Woods grinder.....but it is pretty worn now.....mostly at a few pivot points. They do need some better way to replace those pivots - in my opinion.
My volume stump grinding days are behind me now.....so any future grinding is just a few stumps here and there. I dont plan to sell my grinder.....but dont have too much use for it either.
Grinders can be hard on stuff.....as they max out smaller tractors three point due to all the leverage on that wheel out back. Still.....I got allot done for the cost of my unit and repair parts. Not sure I could have done so much without my grinder.
If I only had a hundred stumps or so.....I would definitely rent the Rayco or a good Vermeer grinder of 25 or more hp. My two-cents.
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