Ryan03
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- Joined
- Feb 26, 2006
- Messages
- 656
- Location
- Chardon Ohio
- Tractor
- Farmtrac DTC270, Kubota G5200hydro, Honda recon 250, Suzuki King Quad 450 4x4, 2003 2500 DMax/Allison 4x4
We run Alamo brand flail mowers exclusively at work. Some are hydraulic drive {batwing}, and some are PTO{3pt}. We primarily cut roadside ditches amd freeway medians. We run double sided Y blades, and buy them by the 55 gallon drum. One nice thing about them is that they are reversible, so when one side is shot, you simply remove and flip them. The biggest Flail mower advic that I can give is keep those rear Roller and cutter drum bearings swimming in grease. You would be suprised how much time they spend under water and how many contaminents are constantly being thrown at them. We recently began converting over to Vogel auto grease systems, and once we got them calibrated properly, we went from 1 set of roller bearings and 3 or so cutter drum bearings a season to per unit to 5 bearings all together for the entire fleet of 12.