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Matt_W

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Location
20 mile West of Pittsburgh
Tractor
B7610
I was looking to purchase my first rotary cutter and would appreciate any advice.
I am looking to maintain my 1100 road side, upkeep some walking trails and keep a few small fields cut once or twice a year and possibly use as a poor mans lawn mower. The initial clearing may have some small sapling痴, wild raspberry, wild rose but if there is anything too large I will clear it with a chainsaw or FEL w/tooth bar prior to cutting.
I have a B7610 and have saved about $1000, but pricing landpride, rhino and woods the numbers are a little higher than expected.
So I am now looking to King Kutter! From the forum so many seem to be satisfied and it seems that my little tractor will be mostly geared to the light duty type cutter anyway.
I narrowed the search to the L-48-40-P, L-60-40-P or the 4 XP cutter.
I think the 5 is too heavy @ 525# and according to the tractor manual the limitation is 400#.
Also have a few concerns of when using this how much of an angle is too much going north and south?
I have hilly property and was wondering if one would be better than the other?
I also plan to be using this near my house so I am also concerned with protection?

Appreciate any advice! Thanks
 
   / Rotary cutter #2  
I have not used KingKutter, however I just bought a Howse 6 foot light/medium duty rotary cutter. It stand up to the 50 HP Yanmar as far as gears and PTO shafts go. The frame is a little thin for the large rocks in my pasture that get whacked as I go over them but so far the only damage is when the blade throw the rock pieces into the sides of the cutter which causes some pretty good dents to protrude out. I guess I will have to armor plate the sides. For $800 for a 6foot cutter, if wasnt a bad deal. I figured that I could reinforce the sides with some thicker plate easier than I could spent another 800-1000 for a heavy duty model and still be way ahead on the money. I have cut 4" trees with it that I have ridden over with my tractor and it just shreds them up sometimes stalling the tractor, but so far not even a shear pin sheared. I am well satisfied with the Howse brand. I dont know if they are availabe up in your area.
 
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I have not used KingKutter, however I just bought a Howse 6 foot light/medium duty rotary cutter. It stand up to the 50 HP Yanmar as far as gears and PTO shafts go. The frame is a little thin for the large rocks in my pasture that get whacked as I go over them but so far the only damage is when the blade throw the rock pieces into the sides of the cutter which causes some pretty good dents to protrude out. I guess I will have to armor plate the sides. For $800 for a 6foot cutter, if wasnt a bad deal. I figured that I could reinforce the sides with some thicker plate easier than I could spent another 800-1000 for a heavy duty model and still be way ahead on the money. I have cut 4" trees with it that I have ridden over with my tractor and it just shreds them up sometimes stalling the tractor, but so far not even a shear pin sheared. I am well satisfied with the Howse brand. I dont know if they are availabe up in your area.

I found the Howse website and it looks like they need an email for dealer location.
I will have to check them out.
I went to the TSC store on Sat. called before hand and they said they had 2 - 4' King Kutters there.
On arrival I could find no King Kutters, only the farm force brand but was priced as $549.
The price on the website was diffrent than the listed price. They said KK was the same as the farm force.
No one could give me any info though, was unsure on warranties.
I did not have a good feeling when I left.
 
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Farm Force is not the same as KK. If you look at the KK site, you'll see they use I-beam type sides for their mowers. The Farm Force I've seen are much lighter on the sides. To me, the heavy sides of the KK is one of it's best features. If you don't have rocks to worry about, the lighter sides should be fine.
 
 
 
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