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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...

Spalted always gets attention. I would love that lathe. I only have an older Delta where I have to move belts to change speed. I've been tempted to change it over to a variable speed system.

In the past the operator had me wait on the truck scale to load me. The last time the operator (not sure if it was the same guy) just had me weigh in and out and filled my trailer in the pit. I'm guessing that the loader doesn't have the scale, unless they added one recently. I believe the...

It's amazing how good those guys are with estimating weight of sand and gravel as they load it into a trailer. I asked for 5 tons and he loaded me at 10100#. I guess that comes with time running those loaders.

That's a good price, even if it does need bearings. Make sure the rotor isn't bent and the roller is somewhat straight.

Just wanted to let everyone here know some good news: Flailmaster is back in business! I was always my favorite place for mower parts. I was disappointed when I saw they were closing down, but I just saw that they are once again open!

John Deere still makes the 25A. I don't know of a John Deere 290. Did you mean 390? (also 360 and 370 available) You can also find decent used Ford 917 (although parts are not as readily available aftermarket), or a good used Alamo (parts very readily available aftermarket). Of the two I would...

I have a tool for that. Chuck up the round part and the V will pivot on the round stock until the two lines are lined up. Won't work in the lathe, but works on mills and drill presses.

Re: Big Barn痴 Retirement Farm Shop Here's my hammer drawer in my remodeling toolbox. I tend to pick up a hammer and leave it wherever I was working, then need it again in a different location. So when they went on sale I'd buy a few. My wife suggested I stop buying hammers :rolleyes: I have 2...

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I wasn't sure what an abort gate was so I had to look it up: High Speed Abort Gate - YouTube I have State Farm as well (also in WI) and I got the same response about my wood stove. As long as it's installed to UL standards it's all good. Also, it cannot be installed in a garage due to fumes...

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Re: Big Barn痴 Retirement Farm Shop Our farm came with a small stone smoke house. Unfortunately it has large cracks that will be very difficult to fix. It's only about 6x6 inside, so it's small. It is also in the way of some plans I have. Our house is at the bottom of a hill. There's a small...

I saw this one on the highway. I got in front of them and stopped at my turn to take some pictures. Lights on the mower are on, and not a strap in sight when I passed them. The mower is at the back of the trailer and is sitting crooked. Either they loaded it like that, or it slid there. If it...

I built one out of an old Western plow. Used the blade, a-frame, and cylinders. I cut the a-frame off just after the cylinders and welded the pin brackets back on. I cut the truck side pin mounts off and welded those onto the SSQA plate. I then welded the chain lift arm onto the SSQA plate. The...

I had a 1 ton dump truck. It was convenient for a lot of stuff, but it was still limited on weight capacity. I also used it as a plow truck and it wasn't the best for that (visibility sucked and DRW didn't grip as well as SRW). And it just wasn't convenient to drive in general. It just wasn't...

Re: Big Barn痴 Retirement Farm Shop My area is mostly rolling hills. I was looking to purchase a hill to build on. I found a 38 acre farm for the right price. The plan is to fix up the house and barn, split them off with a few acres and then build on the hill. Here are some pictures from where...

Those knives are reversible. When one side gets dull, just flip them over. And you can sharpen them if you don't wear them out too much. The ones that were on my Alamo that came from the Illinois Tollway had a nice radius at the corner. Those were beyond sharpening. You have some very heavy duty...

It was 7 pallets. More pictures: Also, I don't think the cord was plugged in, so no lights or brakes. A half mile in the direction he was coming from the road tee'd into a US highway, and a half mile in the direction he was going the road turned into a back country road (likely 55 mph). It...

I was a distance away so getting a good shot was tough. It's hard to see, but the ball mount is bent. And the safety chains are neatly hung on the trailer:duh: I also don't see a cord for the trailer :confused: The wheels are 8 lug so likely 7k axles, but the trailer doesn't appear to be built...

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I use the 2-in-1 gas cans. One side is 1.5 gal of fuel, the other is 1/2 gal of oil. The spouts it came with are horrendous. I've just been too occupied (or lazy?) to find alternatives that work better. In searching for an image I discovered they make a saddle pack for this type of can. This...

I did some mowing last weekend. This area usually gets cut on a regular basis because we have gatherings there. This year we got quite a bit of rain and I was lacking in the time department. It got to 4 feet tall before I was able to knock it down :ashamed: I decided to use GPS to measure my...

:laughing: I have a hard time reaching the plug from the inside on both of my boats. One is a stern drive, the other has the gas tank in the way. The twist type plug has little to catch and you can crank it in as tight as you want. Water pressure will always try to push the plug into the boat...

A flail mower would leave a nice even carpet of grass. That's what I use to mow...well...everything, lawn included. You can get flails specifically designed for finish mowing. You'd have the same advantages as the rear discharge, with less chance of throwing things. Here's a picture of 3' tall...

Look for M-100759 or M-105319M. Those are the Alamo blades that fit the Ford mower. M-100759 is the standard duty, M-105319M is the "extreme duty". I put the M-105319M on my Ford, but I was using the mower to reclaim CRP land. I have heavy duty ones made by Flailmaster on my Alamo. They're...

Airplane wings and Y blades are different. Airplane wings are a folded one piece blade that is flat across the bottom (factory option on Ford mowers), Y blades are a pair of blades that when mounted together look like an upside-down "Y" hanging from the mower (factory option on Mott/Alamo...

This would be fun to have! Totally impractical now, but I'm sure it was useful back in it's day. Talk about heavy duty snow removal!

The tag doesn't give you the "907". It tells you their code for the model and size. So "22-124" tells me that it's a 907 6 foot. They were made between 1964-1972. Messicks has a parts diagram for the unit and some parts are available through them. Just search 22-124 in New Holland Agriculture on...

All of the JD25A I've seen rotate the other diretion. Cut and then shoot it straight out the back, not over the rotor. Either your father's was spinning backwards or every other JD25A I've seen has the knives on backwards and the belt has the tensioner on the wrong side. Direct from Alamo on...

Dude... you totally just hijacked! I would suggest posting a new thread in the transportation section to get more answers. As you wish: Update: It started smoking bad! At about 10 hours on it and it started blowing lots of smoke on a warm start, and a big puff of smoke on a cold start...

I'm fairly confident that his mower has the 1000 PTO gearbox on it His mower: small square gearbox. 1000 PTO: small square gearbox. 540 PTO: large round gearbox. The size of the gearbox tells me that there isn't enough room for the large ring required to get a 4:1 ratio, only enough room...

Even the gear model only has 49 PTO HP. So the hydro only looses 3 HP comparatively. I was working on a slope for part of the mowing. I had it in the lowest range on the selector so that probably helped. I'm guessing when the test PTO HP they put some load on the drive train otherwise I can't...

Saturday I got a special delivery of my new MF 2706E. :cool2: Decided on MF because the dealer is 5 minutes away, great to work with, and they had what I was looking for on their lot when I went looking. I wanted the largest Hydrostatic machine I could get without spending a fortune. Also no...

I'm in the process of buying a new 2706E and I asked about making the rear wheels wider. I can't seem to find any info about how wide they go. It would cost $300 to go wider, but I don't know if it is worth it or not. I don't have really steep hills, most around 10 degrees grade. Should I pony...

My C175 wants to creep left at idle, but stops once it gets about 10% above idle. Just to the left (right track moves forward). I can hold the sticks in neutral but when I let go they creep forward as well. When I increase RPM they seem to come back. Its hard to tell, but the left stick may...

I needed to use the diff lock the other night and it didn't lock the diff. It's an electronic push button on the fender. The light on the dash came on, but the tires didn't lock together. I've noticed in the past that the light on the dash is sometimes on half brightness without the button...

I have a old septic system put in WWII era. Small tank (500 gallons). Last spring I started having trouble with the 1st floor toilet bubbling when a large amount of water went into the system (drain the tub for instance). It was only the 1st floor toilet, not the sink. There is no gurgling...

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Anyone have any experience selling a patent? My father (who unfortunately passed away while we were waiting for the patent to be issued) and I have a patent that is doing no good just sitting around. It's a special tailgate for pick-up trucks so I would like to sell to OEM. Aftermarket is a...

I have a 500ft gravel driveway to maintain. Using a SCUT (M-F GC1705) and the box scraper is just too big. We are going to switch to a grading scraper, but we would like to know if the teeth are actually useful. The driveway has been neglected over the years and has some decent sized potholes...

My 2-1/2 year old daughter loves riding on my tractor. So, since I couldn't get any work done with it due to the rain I took her for a ride. She was ecstatic. She stands between my legs and holds the steering wheel pretending to steer.

Reclaiming some land that was in CRP for 20 years. Those poor trees don't know that a flail is coming for them... I have many memories behind the wheel (or sticks of my skidloader) that I wish I would have taken a picture of.

Just discovered that Alamo made a dual rotor flail mower called "Grass Gator". It must not have been very popular because it is no longer produced.

Just picked up this GX45H. I like the HP to size ratio. Anything I should be aware of with these? They seem to be very feature heavy compared to some of the other options out there. I like the 2 option HST (foot pedal and stick operated), and the 3 speed PTO (540, 540E, and ground speed). And...

It was a busy Saturday at the dealer... :D Had a Yanmar SA424 and a Massey Ferguson 231 (both with loaders). Yanmar was my mom's, and the Massey 231 was mine. Yanmar was the right HP but too big for my mom, right size for me to too low HP. It also had a 3 point rear blower that didn't work so...

And here's one of my recent loads. I'm sure I was over weight, but I only had a little ways to go and I went slow with the flashers on. 14k trailer (9k load rating). The dump bed picked it up without a problem, didn't have to hand-unload it. And everything was strapped down well.

Here are some of the thing's I've seen out and about recently. They must have had a hard stop without trailer brakes. I wonder how his tailgate works? The only strap on the plow is across the back. Sure, it won't fall out, but it didn't seem very tight and a few good bounces might dislodge it.

I finally finished reading this massive thread. I might as well throw my hat in the ring. I bought this 5' Ford 917 recently (already posted it in a separate thread, but this thread is more impressive...). I'm still working on getting it fully functional. It was missing the rear roller and one...

I bought this unit for a great price. It does need new blades and it would help to know the make and model for getting the correct blades. Any ideas? And yes, my pitman is broken (again... :( ). I think it needs some adjustments made to prevent breakage in the future. This is my 3rd broken...

No worries about the stubs being too long. I'm a mechanical design engineer and I'm familiar with how to design that stuff. I will need 2 new bearings as there are none on the mower right now. In fact, one of the bearing housings is missing as well. That I can get from Messick's for $50. The...

First post, but cruised the forum for a while for information on flails. I just picked up a 5 foot Ford 917. It wasn't a screaming hot deal, but it was local (as in it was stored in a shed I rent out on my property...) and a decent price. It is missing the rear roller. Messick's has it, but...