I thought the same thing about the dirt. The actual height adjustment is a top link mounted to the hinged hitch and the body of the mower. I have it hooked to my draw bar to raise and lower. Most of my property has high and low spots so a pull behind may not be the best. I'm really not going to use it much for any kind of lawn maintenance but just food plots and fields so I will be able to keep the cut a little higher hopefully.
The tires are holding air.
Back to the vacuum affect you were talking about way back I can certainly see the grass starting to lift even before the drum is over it.
It looks to me that the knives do not open up while rotating. I can easily spread them with my hand though.
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Hello OzarksLandowner,
AH yes it is the dreaded mounting hole
issue rearing its ugly head again.
A Side Slicer Knife with a slotted mounting hole one half an inch long by one quarter inch wide allows
the knife to become an air foil and lift to the horizontal to allow the knife to slice the grass and
brush cleanly with no dirt digging.
The issue for Clean Cutter, Flail Master and the other manufacturers of these knives
is that they have to create the knives exactly to the specifications of the original knives.
AS I have mentioned previously the flail mower rotors are smaller in diameter and the
knives are longer in length and mounting stations are either D rings or weldment's on
the steel tube used for the typical Flail Mower Rotor except in the JD models where
they have the second weldment welded to the steel tube which is a machined and
modified block of tubular or solid steel to allow mounting the D ring straps.
Hopefully when flail mowers become the dominant way to mow all types of grass and
brush for the homeowner and mowing contractors they will start making Flail Mower
Rotors with a larger diameter welded pulley that will allow smaller knives to be mounted
on the rotor with a tool less knife hanging system that is spring mounted and slotted
knives can be used to thier advantage to create smaller clipping and recut the clippings
much faster.
