Educate me please

[Army grunt]

I sold mine, An got a new set of blades for my 5 ft. bus hog. problem soloed.My 6 ft. finishing mower was really stressed in tall grass, the bus hog does it easily.
Army Grunt

 

[handirifle]

The two acres are to be mowed several times a year, just to keep the weeds down. This only occurs in spring and early summer. Mid and late summer, nothing grows, no rain. The one remaining acre is developed, with house, workshop, 5th wheel parking, car port, and built in storage building. What will be turned into grass, will be easily able to mow with my walk behind mower.

I for SURE do NOT want to turn it into a lawn. I have no desire to feed and water a 3 acre lawn. The stuff here isn't like true heavy grass. Most of the time it isn't even green.

 

[LD1]

If you have no desire to maintain it as a finished lawn, then I would not get the finish mower. A rough cut mower will be faster, and it will last longer since that is what it is designed to do, unlike a finish mower.

The only way I'd even consider a finish mower is if you plan on using it on your 1 acre "yard" as well. But since you already have that covered, and it is only 1 acre, I'd stick with a bush hog.

A bush hog, or rotary cutter is cheaper around here as well. You can usually pick up a decient used one in the 250-300 range whereas the good finish mowers run well north of $500

 

[handirifle]

If you have no desire to maintain it as a finished lawn, then I would not get the finish mower. A rough cut mower will be faster, and it will last longer since that is what it is designed to do, unlike a finish mower.

The only way I'd even consider a finish mower is if you plan on using it on your 1 acre "yard" as well. But since you already have that covered, and it is only 1 acre, I'd stick with a bush hog.

A bush hog, or rotary cutter is cheaper around here as well. You can usually pick up a decient used one in the 250-300 range whereas the good finish mowers run well north of $500

I have yet to see one that works, anywhere near that low here, but I suppose I will keep looking. The general concensus here seems to be towards the bush hog, so I suppose that's the one I'll look for.

Thanks guys for all the feedback, much appreciated.

 

[leonz]

Mower saga begins

A flail mower, any size, is way out of my budget. I have not seen one, even used, that is in the three figure price range, even used ones here are over a grand.

No its not, and when you look at the fact that it wil outlive any tractor you put in front of it and I can prove it.
You will have no need for two types of mowers if you purchase a flail mower either.




That said, I have been searching all the local, and not so local listings even for an upper teens or low 20 something HP riding mower. As I mentioned there are no saplings and the worst issue is some tractor ruts causing uneven ground. Other than that, its a pretty flat lot. In fact I have been grading it off and on to try and make it even flatter. I don't own a lot of property (3 acres) and it has about 200-250ft road frontage, and I am trying to make it look as nice as possible.

The TL0900FSC will do that for you easily


I realize the rough cut mowers were meant for brush etc, I have no brush, or saplings, or heavy wooded areas to contend with. I really just need the equivilent of a heavy duty riding mower. Would the finish cut mower meet this level of performance? I hate to spend $500-1000 on a used riding mower when all I need is an attachment for the tractor.

To be honest, I am looking at a finish mower from Harbor Freight. It's on sale for $499. I have experience with HF's tools, and am well aware some stuff is decent, some isn't. For me, this would see use about 3-4 times a year. For the "lawn" areas, I have a walk behind mower that will work perfectly fine. This is just to keep the weeds from making it to the 3-4ft level, and keep the field grass cut down.

By the way, at $499 that is probably slightly above my budget limit, and I think my chances on a new one, even from HF are better than buying a used one, that's been beat up, for the same price.

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The 36 inch Caroni flailmower TL0900FSC is an Italian made finish cut quality mower with 4 rows of mower knives.

$1,189.95 +tax and frieght to your door is included in the price.

The in store price is $900.00 plus tax

A flail mower has a full width cutting width where the finish mower depends on the short cutting edges on each blade.

The 56 blades on the TL0900 have a greater slicing edge versus the three blades on a finish mower, a rotary mower tears the grass where the flail mower slices it and causes less shock to the grass blades.

A flail mower is a much safer mower to own and operate than a finsh mower as it does not pick up things and throw them like a rotary mower would.

If after all, you only intend to have it mowed seasonally it would be less work for you to have it mowed by someone else as it would cost you less money but its still costing you out of pocket anyway.

 

[handirifle]

If after all, you only intend to have it mowed seasonally it would be less work for you to have it mowed by someone else as it would cost you less money but its still costing you out of pocket anyway.

Not so. The cheapest I found this spring, cost me $200 to get done, even with this crappy economy. In a couple years, the mower will pay for it's self, I just need to find one I can afford. As for the extra work, that's not a big deal.