Flail Mower Let's talk flail mowers

[IslandTractor]

I was greasing up my Ford 907 today and I noticed that I was missing my tensioner spring! It must have flown off while I was mowing last week. I walked around the fields a bit but I had no luck. I'm going to walk them a little bit more over the weekend. I went to Messicks to look up a new one and saw that it was 50 bucks. Yikes! I'm sure I could get something at Lowes right? Does anyone with a 907 know how big of a spring I should be looking for?

I don't know about that model but I replaced the tensioner spring on my Caroni with something I found at HD or Lowe's. It's worked fine for five or six years.

 

[Ozarks Landowner]

I must learn to read before posting!

Yes mine is a pull behind. I would like to think I could learn how close I could get but after years of running my rotary I still hit a few lol. They are just persimmon trees and I've never seen any problems with them after scarring them. I think I can make something to remedy that problem though.

 

[crreed67]

What is 3PL?

 

[IslandTractor]

What is 3PL?

?3 point litch

 

[crreed67]

:laughing: Possibly

 

[DavesTractor]

Yes mine is a pull behind. I would like to think I could learn how close I could get but after years of running my rotary I still hit a few lol. They are just persimmon trees and I've never seen any problems with them after scarring them. I think I can make something to remedy that problem though.

I was mowing my pistachio orchard last evening and nearly hit a tree. I had to clutch and brake and just missed dinging a tree. Go figure, brag about my mad mowing skills, and then see how life has a way of humbling us. But I did miss!

 

[gregharr55]

Well guys I finally got my Caroni TM1900 setup amd mowed a little in thic fescue but it is somewhat dryer than normal. I mowed in third gear in Kubota l4310 GST. I worked as advertised. I am well satisfied. Will use it more tomorrow.
Also to those who questioned my use of a slip clutch on the flail, I hope I did not insult anyone. That was not my intention. Someime I do come across as a jerk. I apologize if my reply was anything other than polite. Everyones information is appreciated and often caues me to spend money!
Humbly,
Greg

 

[jonsstihl]

well there went one and a half months of lunch breaks but I made it through the thread. managed to rebuild my mott 72 hd as well. 50 bucks for a spring. the tension spring on my mott is 2.39$ from flail master.

Lots of great info. thanks for taking the time to comment. about the slip clutches. The point of protecting the driveline is to protect the entire drive line. the job of the belts is to transmit power and protect the gearbox from shock loads but what is going to protect the tractors pto when the gearbox decides to head south. snow blower have multiple shear pins. I have a shear pin on my old pto shaft and it is right next to the tractor so it protects the whole drive line.

Mott states that gauge wheels are best used in really trashy areas where you wouldn't be mowing down to 2 inches anyways. If you have every snagged your roller on a stump and turned it into the worlds most expensive banana you can understand the use of gauge wheels. My mower has them but I don't use them because my field is fairly nice.

 

[Steave]

well there went one and a half months of lunch breaks but I made it through the thread. managed to rebuild my mott 72 hd as well. 50 bucks for a spring. the tension spring on my mott is 2.39$ from flail master.

Lots of great info. thanks for taking the time to comment. about the slip clutches. The point of protecting the driveline is to protect the entire drive line. the job of the belts is to transmit power and protect the gearbox from shock loads but what is going to protect the tractors pto when the gearbox decides to head south. snow blower have multiple shear pins. I have a shear pin on my old pto shaft and it is right next to the tractor so it protects the whole drive line.

Mott states that gauge wheels are best used in really trashy areas where you wouldn't be mowing down to 2 inches anyways. If you have every snagged your roller on a stump and turned it into the worlds most expensive banana you can understand the use of gauge wheels. My mower has them but I don't use them because my field is fairly nice.

That's a good thought about the slip clutch protecting against something going wrong before the cutting shaft. Mine is not protected anywhere except the belts.

I have a Mott 72 and was thinking of adding guage wheels just as you said to run in rough areas. Is yours factory or added on. Mine don't have a built in set up for wheels. Of course I'd leave the roller like it is. The second roller that is, the first one had some run ins with rocks and the rocks won. I'm thinking it wouldn't matter about the spacing between the wheels just something that looks like it would hold the back up even and fairly close to the back of the mower. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

 

[IslandTractor]

In all the time I've spent on TBN, I have never heard of someone damaging a tractor PTO because a gearbox failed. When gearboxes fail, which is rare enough, the PTO makes confetti of the gearbox not the other way around.