Flail Mower Flail or Rotary Cutter

[flusher]

Flails are nice if you want to cut really short, like the orchard growers do in my neighborhood for sanitary reasons to protect their trees.

Otherwise, for field work, rotary cutters (brush hogs) are used.

If you want to make your field look like a golf course fairway, then sharpen the brush hog blades the way you would for a riding lawn mower.

I own both a flail and a rotary. I'm not a fan of belt-driven flail mowers. I prefer a brush hog that doesn't have belts.

 

[houser52]

I have 3 rotary cutters and 1 flail mower. I like the cut of the flail for mowing grass that's not too tall and it does a pretty good job at that.

Overall I prefer rotary cutters for everything from tall grass, weeds, bushes, briars and everything else. It may not look like a golf course when finished but I'm looking to to mow down out of control vegetation .

 

[the old grind]

"Processies" = more than one process. "Christmasies" = more than one Christmas. :laughing:

(Latin is so 'last Millenium' and 'data' now has two ' tees' .. thanks, online degrees for the cough-bound)

Maybe OT, but 6' 'Bush Hog' (brand) rotary for sale cheap. "Make offer", "priced to sell", "Cat I 3PH QA thrown in as bonus." (ask about three bottom Ford plow w/14" coulters)

Aside from my now-sobering honesty (pint o'Captain gone):

I suggest that a flail mower can cover a rotary slasher's a__ better than a rotary can cut w/o need to bale clippings from waist-high 'field-findings'. (Blackberries, olive, honeysuckle, etc)

Don't let my opinion clash with your first/best/only hunch and reason for asking. (OP please enjoy my levity/folly vs suspect my admonition.)

 

[Alien]

As Old Grind says Don't back up with a flail and I lift mine a few inches when I turn.