This is what Alamo calls Foward Rotation,
leonz calls it ccw, would this be "forward down"? My front mount rotates the other way, opposite of tire rotation moving forward.
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AS my power wigged out before I was able to finish this today GGGGGRRRRRR!!!!!!
I will start once more.
The way Alamo Industrial has configured these flailmowers allows them to be used
with hydraulic drive using PTO shaft mounted pumps and hydraulic motors for the
rotor drives for the wing mowers and or simply rear mounts and in some cases
allowing three flailmowers to be operated at one time with one or more flail mowers
in the raised position.
They advertise the same mowers for sale in Europe. I am unsure if they are built here
or in Europe but with MFN status "Most Favored Nation Status" between England and
the United States; they may be built here with metric parts anf then shipped simply using England for an finished inventory and parts depot.
NOW as you look at the sie view of the flail mower look closely at the mower shroud where
the pressure gradient is created by the high speed rotation of the flail mower rotor and the
free swinging flail knife pairs.
Follow the arc of the shroud to its end where it meets the rear apron where a portion of the
clippings hit the lower shroud and the balance of the clippings bounce out after hitting the rear roller.
NOW the mower will clog in Heavy and tall brush unless the mule is crawling on its first pass.
The Maschio flail mowers sold with the Land Pride brand get around this by having a trash door like some of the original Mott flail mowers This allows the end user to have the ability to mow real deep crap with a smaller mule and avoid plugging the flail mower and or burning a set of belts.
One of our members purchased an alamo flail mower his contract mowing work and as far as I am concerned they took advantage of him and have felt this way from the beginning of how it started for him as the Alamo salesman praised theier mowers to the heavens.
He ran into problems with clogging and damaged knives the time needed
to repair broken knife sets in difficult highway mowing conditions with garbage
and debris hidden in the grass tracts he is or was mowing.
I think i remember stating that he contract mowed 18,000 plus acres of highway shoulders and verges with a brood herd of rotaries and medium horsepower mules in the State of Kentucky.
I am unsure nor do I remember what mowing speed he used or if he mentioned
it when using the Alamo flail mower he purchased. Time was-or is money for him
in a mowing season.
If he had been sold a wide high horsepower flail mower/flail shredder like a
15 foot cut model 1700 Hiniker flail shredder he would have had a much
different experience as he would have been able to have a flail mower that
could be equiped with a running light light kit, end towing kit, skid plate and
hydraulic lift cylinders to speed both the haulage of the flail mowers and the
set up of the flail mower prior to mowing and with a fifteen foot cut operating
at 2 miles per hour he would have been able to mow
at 176 feet per minute
times the mower width 15 feet wide = 2,640 sqaure feet every two minutes times thirty minutes would allow him to mow 1.8 acres per hour at 2 miles per hour in a straight line
BUT the width of the mower saves return trips and reduces overlaps and mowing can be
faster with different mowing conditions.
In saying that it is hampered by its width in narrowed mowing areas where space is limited
for maneuvering.This can be overcome with a narrower cut flailmower of course with a high knife count to maintain a 2 inch cut.
Saying that a flail shredder is a much stronger mower than a standard duty flail mower
and Farms with junk was not treated as I would have wanted to see him treated as the
Alamo industrial salesman should have not sold him a flailmower in my opinion and told him he needed a medium width flail shredder for the work due to the conditions and the acreage
he was mowing. He probably would have recieved more rotary cutter sales if he had been
honest about it as he most likely knew about heavy crop shredders in my opinion.
This is where a front mounted flail mower on a bidirectional tractor would shine in
performance as a standard flailmower could be mounted on the front or rear of the
bi-directional tractor in the example allowing for faster mowing without the need
to turn around saving time, fuel, braking, and tires by simply dropping the wider
flail shredder near where it can no longer be maneuvered safely and finish the mowing
job with the smaller width flail mower shredder. when that section was done the
operator would simply travel to to next location by end towing the wider flail mower
to the job and then re-attaching it to the bi-directional tractor to begin mowing again.
I will tell you that the ditches along the roads on the secondary highways in
New York State look like crap from the lack of mowing- I am still waiting to see if
they mow my ditch.
I am not trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill here, honest but I quite often
expand on the subject of flailmowers as quite often happens and I try not to be boring about it.
I'm sure we're both wrong anyhow, there's probably a technical term.
