leonz
Super Member
Follow up on my attempts at mowing yucca with my MF 1526 and Caroni. Here's what the stuff looks like. These are some medium sized ones which when mowed over will pull the engine RPM down from the normal 2600 at 540 PTO speed to about 1800 RPM.
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Here's a big one one that I was working on. This thing had killed the engine three times at this point.
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Finally got it down as far as I could by going over it slowly and dropping the 3-pt about an inch at a time. About fifteen minutes total on this one big yucca. I've probably got 50-100 of them about this size. The flail mower chops it up into something that looks a lot like the old excelsior type packing material, if anyone remembers that stuff.
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Overall I think the Caroni can probably handle this stuff, but my tractor doesn't really have enough horsepower for it. The 20 PTO horsepower that is really about 17hp at my elevation probably needs to be about 25 real horsepower. On the other hand, it is all I need for most of my ground and I really like the physical tractor size. Also I wonder if I might have done better with the Caroni that has fewer cutters. At any rate it is supposed to snow on Friday, so I've put the mower to bed for the winter.
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Dont quit yet,
First thing first you can lower the mowers
rear roller and in effect raise the cutting
hieght of the mower to start knocking
them all down quickly.
You can remove two opposing rows of knives
to get the job done with no issues if you wish
to leave a lower mowing height too.
Once you get the stumps of the Yucca's exposed
they should die right off and then you can put the
other two rows of knives back on to go back to serious
mowing and brush management.
I love it when a plan comes together