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As far as height in many ways it depends on your tractor. If you have a larger tractor and can adjust the 3 pt hitch to maintain the mower parallel to the ground and keep the pto shaft within acceptable angles I would think you can mow as high as you want. Of course when used like this the roller wouldn't be on ground. On our walk behinds we routinely mowed about 10-12 inches by tipping the mowers. Andy |
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I think the $19xx.xx price is an all included ("free" ?) shipping to anywhere in the contiguous.... mumble, mumble, etc. price. As I recall, other TBN'ers have been able to get the in store price of $159x.xx plus ACTUAL shipping, which can be a lot less if you aren't at the farthest reaches of the aforementioned contiguou.... etc. Also, if you have pallet forks (and confidence) you can forgo the lift gate charge as long as you KNOW when the delivery guy will be there and you can be home (sick day ?). I think this requires that you tell them it is a biz address and/or has a loading dock or you have unloading capability - e.g. pallet forks. FWIW, etc. |
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I like this thread.
![]() I studied, researched, called, haggled, hammered,, kicked, screamed, stomped, fussed, fought, threw things. I looked at Rears, Befco, Landpride, Vrisimo, Gearmore, John Deere and a bunch more I can't remember and decided... I'm buying a Rears SPF 72 inch with the FL 940 knives. I'm working on shipping now. Kinda high, over $4000, but I made my decision. I hope it's a good one. I'm glad it's over. I don't want my rotary anymore. Matter of fact, it already has a new home
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and bought a flail myself, I wonder why rotary mowers are so much more common than flails. I'd hazard a guess that rotary mowers out number flails by 100:1 in the USA based on TBN experience. I'm surprised because for many uses you can get by with a single flail mower rather than a hog and finish mower. No need for a separate pasture and lawn mower. The flails are smaller and easier to store. Easier to manuver too. You also have a quieter mower and one that is less prone to eject harmful projectiles at fearsome velocity. Of course the heavy duty road maintenance and Ag flails can be expensive but I am referring to the Caroni and other "medium" duty flails that equate generally to the light/medium weight bush hogs and finish mowers in cost. There are some different maintenance issues (number of flails needing replacement/sharpening vs rotary cutter) but that seems a manageable task requiring only a couple of wrenches rather than "flailing" around with a breaker bar to get rotary blades off. Changing flails probably won't take more than an afternoon every ??few seasons or so. By buying one mower instead of two I can justify spending one or two hundred bucks on knives every few years. Why don't companies like Bush Hog, Rhino, Woods make medium duty or residential/pasture weight flails? Is it just a North American thing? Are flails more common in Europe/Oz? |
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