Mower width

[tag9889]

Hawgee,
Thanks for your suggestion... I'll be sure to share it with my wife.

How often does your neighbor mow?

Regards,

Tim

 

[tag9889]

Keith,

Thanks for the response.

I was thinking along the line that it would be better to have a wider mower so the mower can get closer than the tractor along the edges as you mentioned.

Additionally, I saw somewhere, maybe at the Carver Equipment site, that if the tractor can handle larger equipment, you will put less hours on the tractor. (Which leads to the question; Can go faster with a smaller implement?)

With either the finish or rotary mowers, they would be off the rear 3PH.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is an "MMM"?

Regards,

Tim

 

[Wheeldog]

<font color=blue>Excuse my ignorance, but what is an "MMM"?</font color=blue>

It's the sound you make after a long satisfying day on your tractor./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Or some people say it stands for Mid-Mount Mower. Really, it's open to interpretation.

- Rob

 

[keithcom]

That wasn't ignorance, that was ummmm a "learning experence". Now u b more ed-u-macated /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Have fun with your shopping.
Keith

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Tim I mow a Pasture Field in Ohio with a L245 (25 HP) and a
Land Pride 72" Side Discharge Mower
I have to Mow at 2 Week Intervals
Finish Mower does not work well in Tall Grass

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>Question - What is an "MMM"?

Answer - It's the sound you make after a long satisfying day on your tractor...</font color=blue>

Rob,

I love it! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bill_in_MI]

I have a 60" Landpride finish (3 pt) mower that I use for the same purpose...keep a 2 acre field cut so the weeds look like lawn...from a distance. I had no problem with my Kubota B7100 with "grass" up to six inches high or so. I now use the same mower with a B2910 and can go through considerable taller stuff without bogging down if I have to. I thought the 60" mower looked huge when I was buying it. It's amazing how puny a 5 foot swath looks in a 2 acre field, though. I'd buy the widest mower that you can power. A 72" is only six inches per side if you want to think about it that way...not a whole lot.

 

[tag9889]

Thank you all for the information.

I think now I need to summerize, make a decision, and work with it.
I like the idea of the 72" finish mower, but if I go that way I'll need to increase the frequency of the mowing and be careful manuvering around edges and corners.

Thanks again,

Tim

 

[Hawgee]

How often does your neighbor mow?

All summer long. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Mayby once during a very mild winter.
With cross fence'n and animals, he is more interested with 3" to 4". More often around the house. I just met this guy 2 weeks ago. He started with a 1720 in 85' and just traded up to the TC29 last year. He runs the R4's and calls his 7308 FEL his elevator. He also uses the TC29 with a rear spreader for the lime.

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I recently had a TC33D with R4 tires out for a demo. I measured the maximum width at the rear tires as 61 3/8". The contact patch on the rear was 12 ½" but I did not measure the maximum width the tires contacted the ground. It was not that far in, probably right at 60".