Rusty
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 18, 2003
- Messages
- 422
- Tractor
- Kubota B7500HSD-R
Congratulations to another fine member of the Flail Mower Nation.
Leonz - Thanks! Do we have a secret handshake? :laughing:
Congratulations to another fine member of the Flail Mower Nation.
Leonz - Thanks! Do we have a secret handshake? :laughing:
I've had a Caroni TL1500 for about two months now, pulled behind a MF 1526 which has 20PTO hp. I'm on the Colorado prairie so all the grass has been browned up before I got the mower, but I've cut a few acres of that to see how it does. It cuts the 12"-18" dry grass fine except it doesn't chop it up much. I also have a bunch of Colorado yucca that is up to two feet tall. The tractor and mower really can't handle the bigger clumps of that. Running over a big yucca plant can stall the tractor out. Smaller plants are okay but may still pull down the rpm by several hundred depending upon the size of the plant. I had thought the mower belts would slip at some point but they do not. Seems the belts on the Caroni have more resistance than the tractor engine. I'm thinking I may have to see how loose I can set the tension on the belts-- most comments on flail mower belts seem to be about increasing the tension.
MikeZ