Re: Finish vs Rotary
WVBill,
Bushog is to rotary mower what Kleenex is to facial tissue.
Bushog or Brushog is a brand name of a rotary cutter. Rotary cutters are for "rough" cutting of fields where you don't need a "lawn like" cut. Your mower on your Sears tractor is a finish mower, made to cut lawns.
To give you an example of costs, I own, just got the rotary on Wednesday, both a finish mower and a rotary cutter, both are Woods brand, in general, a tractor can handle a bigger finish mower than rotary cutter. I have a 5' 3 point finish mower that cost $1300 and a 4' rotary cutter (only available for 3 point as far as I know) that cost $575. The finish mower has 3 spindles underneath with 3 blades and 6 cutting edges, the rotary has 1 spindle with two blades and 2 cutting edges. My rotary is light duty but will cut over 1" thickness trees and brush, I would never use the more expensive finish mower for this duty.
Hope this helped, and if I screwed anything up, someone will correct it! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
JimBinMI
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