Flail Mowers

[joe swanson]

I have read , with great interest, several long and detailed post about flail mowers. I am very interested yet have a few questions that seem to get different answers. Can any one help.

1. Are these mowers effective in reverse???

2. Do they cut if lifted a bit off the ground (like trying to clear a suspected rock??

3. Just how good can i expect one of these say the 59" Caroni to work on 1 to 2 inch brush??

4. Can they handle several pieces of brush at a time??

Joe

 

[Argosy]

1. Are these mowers effective in reverse???

Not really. They have a roller across the back so anything tall will be pushed down and away from the cutters making it hard to cut in reverse.

2. Do they cut if lifted a bit off the ground (like trying to clear a suspected rock??

Yes

3. Just how good can i expect one of these say the 59" Caroni to work on 1 to 2 inch brush??

Mine works fine. It it's real heavy I slow down, if the trunk gets under the roller it will hold it down making it pretty much impossible to suck it up into the hammers.

4. Can they handle several pieces of brush at a time??

That will depend on your tractor HP.

 

[clemsonfor]

I have read , with great interest, several long and detailed post about flail mowers. I am very interested yet have a few questions that seem to get different answers. Can any one help.

1. Are these mowers effective in reverse???

2. Do they cut if lifted a bit off the ground (like trying to clear a suspected rock??

3. Just how good can i expect one of these say the 59" Caroni to work on 1 to 2 inch brush??

4. Can they handle several pieces of brush at a time??

Joe

You must not have read very well the post by that guy wanting to buy one for his cutting business, with Leonz and FarmwithJunk.

I think FWJ pretty well covered Why you would NOT want a flail. Even if you could give an edge in cutting quality to a flail in certain yard situations the sheer cost and maitence requirements alone would make me run the other way. The bushhog is proven technology for like 60 years or so, maybe more.

 

[mjstef]

You must not have read very well the post by that guy wanting to buy one for his cutting business, with Leonz and FarmwithJunk.

I think FWJ pretty well covered Why you would NOT want a flail. Even if you could give an edge in cutting quality to a flail in certain yard situations the sheer cost and maitence requirements alone would make me run the other way. The bushhog is proven technology for like 60 years or so, maybe more.

The bush hog is proven for sure. Proven to throw debris everywhere, proven to leave the field look terrible. The Flail mower does a GREAT job and the cut looks very good twhen done compared to a bush hog.

 

[clemsonfor]

Jump right in there on that first post!! Seriously its a feild right? Or are we talking a yard? If it was my yard no i would not use a bushhog on it, but would use a finish mower. Im my feild unless i wait for the grass to be waist high it does not look bad, and after the first rain and a week the windrows if it is that high rot down and are grown over.

 

[psj12]

I use both. If I have to mow something like a pasture where the grass/hay is cut once or twice a year I use the flail. It will also work on some pretty good sized brush and saplings. It just leaves a nicer looking field and no winrows.

If I have to cut a field that is only cut every two or more years than I use a HD Brush hog. It will take out brush and small trees.

 

[mjstef]

Jump right in there on that first post!! Seriously its a feild right? Or are we talking a yard? If it was my yard no i would not use a bushhog on it, but would use a finish mower. Im my feild unless i wait for the grass to be waist high it does not look bad, and after the first rain and a week the windrows if it is that high rot down and are grown over.

I fat finger the keyboard all the time. Disregard my spelling errors as one finger gets ahead of the other sometimes. All the county and state mowers are flails as of the last few years here due to liability with flying debris. They also only mow once a year here in Montana, right around this time as we don't get rain from here till winter and the finished results looks much better.

For me. Safety is huge. I am mowing empty lots. Last year with a bush hog i shot a softball sized rock out from under my Bush Hog Squealer right in front of a bicyclist. This could have been deadly and that was the last time i used the bush hog. The little extra maintenance is well worth the piece of mind i get knowing i will not kill someone with flying debris.

 

[clemsonfor]

Dont worry about the typing or spelling or grammer. I speak correct english and am well educted regardless of what my typing looks like!!!!

I was talking about jumping into a debate!

If you only mow once the compounded expenses dont add up. Here in the south the ROW's along roads are mowed 3 times if not 4 maybe. Bad years twice. I mow my fields at least 3 times and would like 4. But it also is due to rain received.

 

[mjstef]

Dont worry about the typing or spelling or grammer. I speak correct english and am well educted regardless of what my typing looks like!!!!

I was talking about jumping into a debate!

If you only mow once the compounded expenses dont add up. Here in the south the ROW's along roads are mowed 3 times if not 4 maybe. Bad years twice. I mow my fields at least 3 times and would like 4. But it also is due to rain received.

Yeah, I lived in Florida for 5 years and ROW's have to be mowed multiple times. Here i don't cut my lawn till May 1st and by August, even though i irrigate i mow every 3 weeks. We get 11" of precipitation a year..............