West Texas flail mower job

[allen in texas]

I was recently hired to get rid of mountains of tumble weeds. They were piled up completely covering about 200 yards of 8 foot fence about 30 foot wide. I made a pass down the middle of the weeds with my Rears SPF flail about 2 feet off the ground. The biggest problem was the weeds not wanting to go under the shredder and balling up between it and the rear tires but I made it through. then I set the shredder down and made another pass over the same cut and shredded them down to the dirt. Then it was just a matter of having the weeds pushed into the cut section and going over them. I was really surprised at what a neat job it was when I finished. Sure was thankful to have my son and nephew on the rakes pushing the weeds for me.
I wish I had taken before and after pics but when I'm headed out to do a tractorin' job, a camera is the last thing on my mind.

a plus in this job...
the dry weeds cleaned out my flail perfectly. the knives and the underside of the flail looked like they had been sandblasted clean. Pretty and bright.

 

[Jack Yuan]

willing to see the photo about that

 

[oosik]

That sound like a great adventure. I've done the same thing with my JD riding lawn mower to a two acre pasture where the field grass is about 18" high. The exciting part being - hoping there is nothing hiding in the grass - I was fortunate, I hit nothing and the drive belt is still in one piece. I've yet to find a pto driven rear cutter that I like and is available. Still looking for a dealer who handles Brown Mfg cutters.