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I just use regular belts on my Alamo (Gates or D&D Power). I always have a spare, though. When I put the spare on, I order another spare. I don't break belts unless something gets tangled in the rotor or I pick up something that brings it to a dead stop. That seems to happen every other year...

This is awesome! Flailmaster will have any and all parts you'd need for this unit. I also have a SHD88, and it's an absolute tank. Just keep an extra belt on hand. The belt will break if you wedge something in it, like firewood (ask me how I know...). The belt size is C54, and I just get...

My solution for my ditch bank ended up being a three point mounted disk mower. I got a heck of a deal on a used one. I use it for making hay and mowing my ditch. It's designed from the start to hang off to the side and only requires 1 remote (to lift it). It weighs less than a comparable flail...

I don't know anything about the Caroni blades, but you can reach out to Flailmaster to see if they have any blades that would fit your mower. They will be significantly less expensive than OEM. If you can post a picture of what you currently have it would help us help you.

When you raise the cutter up the blades have a harder time actually cutting the grass. The grass will be moved instead of being cut. The moving comes from both the air turbulence and the blades themselves. This will cause the grass to tangle into the cutters. The closer to the base of the grass...

I'd anticipate the JD to be about $1200 and the Land Pride to be about $1500, but those might be low as I'm basing this off when I was looking and selling a few years ago. Seeing that new prices have almost doubled on some implements, I wouldn't be surprised if they're asking double my numbers...

Hello from Eastern WI. I would personally take the JD 25A only because parts are going to be more readily available aftermarket. Either way, Flailmaster should have the knives and probably some other parts. The advantage of the clevis mount is the blades have an additional direction to move if...

For situations like that I usually use a Dremel and cut-off wheel to score the bearing race in 3 locations evenly space around the circumference. Usually the bearing will crack at one of the scores when they get deep enough. At that point I can begin to pry it off and it will break at the...

That was already suggested here. The issue I discovered when looking into it is it mixes before the pump using the suction to draw in the chemical along with the water. I cannot use that because I have a PTO driven pump and a pressure relief valve that circulates back to the tank. It would pump...

Apparently you need to register and have an account to use the calculator. I've kind of given up on venturi devices as most need at least 2gpm.

I tried that. Unfortunately I would have to roll it up every time I mow. And the "light duty" hoses only last one season from my experience. Plus we have rodents. The garage cat (because she insists on staying in the garage instead of the barn...) keeps the population low, but it seems like they...

It is a 3 point mounted sprayer. The hay field is a not visible from the house. I had considered running a water line from the house to the garden, but it would be quite a task. I would need to bury 200 feet of pipe to get to the main garden area, and another 250 feet of pipe to get to our other...

I've used peristaltic (metering) pumps in my designs for work before. I did some brainstorming on this. I'd need to have a pressure switch to activate the pump only when the sprayer pump is running, and it would be beneficial to have some sort of potentiometer to control the speed of the...

That's exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. Sometime between last night and this morning that item disappeared. I did find another one that isn't the tow-behind: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/chapin-sprayer-25-gal-atv-mixes-on-exit-97562?cm_vc=-10011# I went to the Chapin website...

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I use lower flow nozzles so I can cover more ground on a single tank. I use a 150 gallon tank to spray about 4 acres and I mix chemicals based on acreage not based on volume of water. I get a total of 1.2-2.4 total gpm with the nozzles I use. I use a PTO driven roller pump and I would put the...

I'm looking to add an in-line chemical injector to my 3 point sprayer. The pump is PTO run, and I have 6 nozzles on it. I typically use the yellow or red nozzles (.2gpm or .4gpm), so the total flow is somewhat low. I don't like having the chemicals in the tank as I want to use it for just about...

This is very true. I design machines in the food industry (specifically meat forming equipment). We have bearings that go for 800 hours of run time between greasing. The machines are in wet environments and food grade grease sucks compared to regular grease. Every day a cleaning crew comes in to...

In my mind there's only 2 failures which would make me to consider replacing my Alamo mower. One is a bent rotor. The other is a blown up gearbox (and not just gears, I mean case explodes). Even then I'd seriously consider repairing over replacing. You just don't get any better built machine...

I actually just bought this unit a few weeks ago. I had a Millermatic 185 that was a very nice welder. I really wanted a plasma cutter and a tig welder as well, so I decided to sell the Millermatic and put the money towards the Mig180 and CT520DP (unfortunately not in stock yet). I actually...

What I've done in the past was just used 2 pieces of brass angle cut to the length of the vise set over the top of the jaws. I didn't need the brass often, and it didn't bother me that the brass was loose on the vise when I did need it. Once you clamp, the brass stays in place anyway. That's...

Oh, man, I'm cringing at the way the micrometers are being used in the display. Having been reliant on them for my income it's driving me nuts seeing them propping up a tool box lid and hanging of the side of the box like that. My micrometers were always set on some sort of padding, even if it...

That's pretty much the same as mine, except mine isn't nearly as pretty. There is one thing I'd recommend, add some sort of bar to the mount plate to be able to apply downforce on the A-frame when you need to, but let it float from the chain when you don't. Sometimes the plow isn't heavy enough...

I picked up some used 3/16" diamond plate for making a flat bed for my truck. 2 pieces that were 4' x 10' was $500 and that was half the price of new (according to the guy selling...) I got an estimate on some DOM to replace the roller on my flail mower and 6" OD x 1/4" wall DOM at 78" long was...

That gearbox mount is the same design on my Alamo SHD88. I'll have to look if that hole is opened up on mine. I have a little vibration on mine, but it seems to balance out as I get up to operating PTO speed. If you weld on the tabs, make sure it is about the same amount of weld as factory...

My Alamo doesn't have an overrunning clutch and neither did my Ford 917, but my tractor does. Alamo mowers only have 1 belt, and it seems to transmit the power just fine. I've blown the belt a few times when I've run over things I shouldn't be mowing (fire wood chunks). But they're cheap enough...

Looks like it might have been a roll-back dumpster hauler? The bridge did a number on the truck! And the bridge barely looks scratched (except the sign).

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I use my Alamo to cut my lawn, and it has the rough cut blades. Granted it isn't the prettiest cut, but I don't care much about my lawn (I've debated letting it grow and baling it...). My 917 did and SHD88 does leave tire tracks in tall grass (both had/have knives), but in short grass that isn't...

From what I remember, the 918H blades mount just about the same as the 918L blades, no extra link. But it does have heavier and wider blades.

Do you want to be "cheap" or "frugal"? I'd suggest frugal over cheap. Look for a used name brand flail. You'll probably end up paying about the same as a new off brand flail and get a higher quality unit. That's what I do, at least. My experience over the years is that it costs less in the end...

The idea behind using a smaller cutter on thin material is based on the amount of surface contact you have (diameter contact vs vertical contact). A smaller cutter will cause the material to chatter less than a large cutter. Chattering material will chip your cutter. Yes, you could profile it...

Stainless is a pain. My first suggestion is spin it slow and use a lubricant. WD-40 is sufficient if you don't have any machining lubricant. And actually with milling aluminum WD-40 is a preferred lubricant (strange as it sounds). Carbide bits last probably 10 times as long as HSS bits, so grab...

Ford 917 is a good choice because it has decent aftermarket support. Also, Alamo course cut blades will fit on that unit as well (in the course cut positions). As arto said, if it is in good condition that's a fair price for it. I bought one missing the rear roller for $750, made a new roller...

As far as belt quantity goes, my Alamo SHD88 only has 1 belt, a size C belt. As far as I know all Alamo mowers use 1 belt. I've had the belt shred when I've hit things I probably shouldn't have hit (logs that jammed the rotor tight). Otherwise it would last for a long time. I think the belt is...

That's about twice what it would be here. I bought a used SHD88 for $1200 that had less rust, but more dents. I'd keep watching.

It looks to be well built and heavy duty. It appears to use Alamo blades and hangers. If so, those are very readily available. The rest of the parts shouldn't be too bad if you know how to research and find bearings and things like that. If I had the time I'd spend the $400 on it. Add about...

I can confidently say that the weld is good. I just mowed my yard and the ditch without the roller bending in half again. Now where did that round tuit for that new roller go... :ROFLMAO:

Well, I got the roller mended enough to use for a bit. Using the 3 foot long C-channel did not work. The roller dips in the middle where the crack was so I couldn't get the roller straight enough. I ended up using 2 jack stands and resting the roller on them until it was straight enough. I...

I'll just JB Weld the C-channel onto the roller like a permanent splint! that extra "bump" every revolution would be fun!

I have the machined roller ends (ordered from Flailmaster because I was going to make a new roller a while ago...), I just need some tubing. I'll have a vendor from work order me a piece in. I'm thinking I'll have him order a piece with increased wall thickness to hopefully avoid this situation...

With the price of lumber I'm not sure if I can swing that 😂 I might run to the local recycler and see if there's a piece of C-channel I could use in the same fashion. Or if I can find 2 pieces I can use some clamps to pull them together. Come to think of it, I think I have a piece of C-channel...

I have new bearings, purchased when I bought the roller ends. I'll need to do some measuring and order the tubing through one of my vendors where I work.

Well, that's not good... I already had new roller ends, but I didn't have a round tuit to make the new roller yet. I'll need to wait on a new tube to make the new roller, and I'll be getting a round tuit when the new tube comes in. Any suggestions on how to straighten this so I can weld it for a...

Well, that's not good... The roller was old and quite beat up already, and it finally gave way last night. I don't recall hitting anything, but it could have been when I was mowing the ditch it wasn't sitting on a flat surface and the weight with a bounce was enough to do it in. It could...

If I had not found my Alamo I was going to order a Woodmaxx. I would recommend the Woodmaxx over the Betstco mostly because Woodmaxx seems to be a better unit with more features. The belt is tensioned with an actual tensioner, betstco you adjust the jackshaft. Woodmaxx has the rakers to help...

I have an 88" with a 72" tractor width. I wish I had a side-shift. It would be nice when I mow the ditch I wouldn't have to go as far in and risk getting stuck (the ditch holds water so it's always soupy at the bottom). It would also be very nice when mowing a line of trees; I could just shift...

And I thought housing prices here were getting bad. Here I'm surprised when houses like what you posted would go for over $200k. There are very few house sales over $500k in my area. $400k seems to be the top of the upper middle class budget for us right now, up from about $300k a few years ago...

My Miller helmet has a "low battery" warning light when I first turn it on. I've only had to replace the battery once in since I bought it 15 years ago, mostly because of lack of use. Mine takes a AAA battery. I keep it on the gas cylinder. I make it a habit to only hang my helmet there after I...