Flail Mower Let's talk flail mowers

[AGTtactical]

That is the right way,,, if you like the taste of bugs and dust,,, IMHO,,,

Good point...I can't imagine how bad that would be. I wear googles when mowing during dry days because it gets so bad when the wind is blowing dust forward from behind the tractor. Driving into it all the time would be murderous.

 

[leonz]

Front mounted flail mowers are a very large part of the mower market in the European Union where many 4 wheel drive
articulating tractors are four wheel drive and have both the front and rear three point hitches as a matter of machine design
for more utility in orchards and vineyards on steep slopes.

The front mounted flail mowers are typically set up with a three stub PTO shaft gearbox to allow the user to simply move the
three point hitch to the opposite side of the mower to allow the mower to be used in the front of the machine.

In this instance the flail mower has the rear roller in the front of the mower rather than in the rear. The flail mower discharges the grass clippings and brush forward over the rear roller. It is exactly the same direction that it would discharge the clippings if it was mounted on the rear of the mule.

Its been a while since I checked the market in Europe for tractors but the brands I remember are, Ferrari, Lombardini, Lamborgini, and Fiat.
I know the Ferrari's are still made and there is at least one more brand that I cannot remember the name of right off hand but the Ferrari importer in California carries that brand.

 

[jthibodeau89]

Owner is reclaiming the hill pasture adjacent to me with a forestry chipper mounted to the front of a tracked compact loader. Basically a flail mower on steroids. I had never seen a front mounted flail until today. It might be useful on my hill farm.

 

[AGTtactical]

Owner is reclaiming the hill pasture adjacent to me with a forestry chipper mounted to the front of a tracked compact loader. Basically a flail mower on steroids. I had never seen a front mounted flail until today. It might be useful on my hill farm.

I'm doing the same. I have a JD MH60 mounted on my high flow Kubota SVL-95.

I run the mulcher through everything before the first mowing (new property), before bringing my mower out. We logged some areas (thinned) two years ago, so lots of hidden stumps. Mulcher will grind a 12" two year old pine stump gone in about 5 seconds. Levels everything nicely, and wipes out anything which could be hazardous to my tractor or FM2572 Flail with hammers. But, the hammers on the flail are pretty tough in their own right. If you have lots of trees, a flail with hammers is really nice to have. I really thought hard about the hammer vs. other types of tools. Very happy with the hammers...really nice on mulching up sticks and branches.

 

[Xfaxman]

Owner is reclaiming the hill pasture adjacent to me with a forestry chipper mounted to the front of a tracked compact loader. Basically a flail mower on steroids. I had never seen a front mounted flail until today. It might be useful on my hill farm.

Here is my 5' front mount flail:

It goes on the TORO in place of the 6' rotary deck:

Or the smaller 54" rotary deck:

 

[lostcreekranch]

One of my neighbors has a land clearing business and has been nice enough to grind down a few stumps for me .... gratis.

 

[AGTtactical]

That's the same mulcher I have.

 

[leonz]

I do not think that my expressing an opinion or offering my 40+ years of experience with flail mowers in operating and maintaining them is of little use of little benefit to anyone that asks about them.

The simple fact that I own a smaller flail mower now compared to the JD25A that I used at my fathers place is of no consequence as the principles of operation for any flail mower are the same; no matter whether it is a forestry mower with conical knives or simple bolted carbide teeth mounted on the rotor knife mount or what the rated gearbox horsepower, blade type, hydraulic or belt drive, front or rear mount, width of flail mower, whether its a flail crop harvester with a cross auger to convey the clippings to the internal blower that fills the silage wagon, its useable cutting height or whether it is a orchard and vineyard shredder used to clean orchard rows of limbs and pruning debris or vineyard pruning's or whether it is used to mow down corn stubble, sugar cane stubble, cotton stubble, sugar beet tops prior to harvest, pineapple slash after harvest and many other crops.

I am fortunate to have friends here on the forum to whom I offered advice and have taken my advice and had wonderful results with their purchase and use of a flail mower and I have given anyone who asks advice and help with their flail mowers when they need it to help with a repair or tracking down the correct V belt or any other parts.

It is truly my loss if you feel that I know nothing about flail mowers, simply because the operating principal of the smallest 24 inch push flail mower, the 48 inch Caroni flail mower or the largest 20 foot cut Hiniker flail crop shredder or a hydraulic track driven self propelled Fecon Forestry Mulcher are still the same almost 60 years later after Mr. Mott patented his first flail mower.

 

[bruceha2000]

Agreed D2Cat.

 

[dieselscout80]

I would like to try a front mounted flail mower, that way all the grass is standing when the mower knives engage the grass.

I d dislike it when the pressed down grass from the tires springs up a day later after cutting.