Flail Mower frail mower vrs rear finnishing mower

[leonz]

Hey guys,
I'm building a house in an seven acre hay field. The field is Bahia. The terrain is uneven. I would like a clean and even cut since most of field will be my front yard. I know hardly anything of frail mowers or finishing mowers. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Please type flail mower in the search box here on the forum and
you will have about 138 plus pages of posts and threads to read
about them and then E-mail any of us with your questions if you
would like to.

The short answer is a flail mower with hardened will last along time in Bahia
and the nice thing about that is you can flip the knive over to a new edge for the next season.

A flail mower of any brand will have a total greater cutting edge length than any rotary mower
as a rotary mower of any width only uses half of its TOTAL cutting edge length where a flailmower-
in my case a four foot finish flail mower has four rows of side slicers with

2 side slicers per mounting station
16 mounting stations per row
4 rows of mounting stations
64 mounting stations in total,
128 side slicers times 1.5 inches per side slicer with a total cutting edge of

192 inches of cutting edge
16 feet of cutting edge as compared to a 4 foot finish mower with only 48 inches
of cutting edge of which only 24 inches is ever in contact with the grass to be cut.

 

[Arc weld]

A flail mower can give a high quality cut and be used for every grass cutting operation except mowing golf course greens. A flail will cut taller grass easier and use less HP but a good flail will cost more than a basic finish mower.

 

[mclogn]

thanks

 

[allen in texas]

This Thread has pictures of grass I cut with my flail
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/174827-flail-finish-mower.html

 

[drjay9051]

I have had both flail and finish. My vote absolutely goes to the flail. As JJ mentioned flails come for coarse work or fine work.

My Caroni TL 1500 FSC has 88 blades and cut is much nicer than my finish mower. I purchased from Agri Supply.

Flail Mower, Caroni, Flail Mowers, Caroni Flail Mower | Agri Supply, 53413

Caroni has a whole line of mowers. There is an extensive flail mower thread with something like 1,300 responses here:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/118882-lets-talk-flail-mowers.html

Good luck. Again my vote goes to the flail.

 

[mclogn]

Thanks for help

 

[Charles Logan]

Don't know how to start a new thread so I thought I ask here. How can I determine who made the frail mower I have? Old man had it for 30 plus years and died.

 

[BukitCase]

You'll get better results with a new thread but it's not real obvious HOW to do that -

You can ONLY start a new thread either from a category (attachments, build it yourself, etc) or from the main forum - in your case I'd click on Attachments - then you should see a box in the upper right corner of the screen - Post Thread - click that, then you'll see a place for "thread title" - once you have your title, you can type whatever explanation... Oh, and welcome to TBN... Steve

 

[Ricn]

Would never give up my flail; not as smooth cutting but in general a more veritile tool that requires little maintainance or repair. grass or brush, it cuts it all!

 

[kthompson]

I also have both. I do not like a flail mower for "lawn" grass, well none I have used. For Bahia, maybe. A lot of the flail mowers used on grass use a light weight (compare to the other flail mower blades I know of) that the two flails form a "Y". To me it leaves a rough looking lawn and MY WIFE REALLY DID NOT LIKE. me either. But the flail will cut trashy grass, tall grass, small brush a finish mower will never touch.