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Some of my experience rotary mowing the farm I grew up on. Towed with F-150 3.5 ecoboost on a 10K 20' car hauler, Used a WDH, 270 miles each way northwestern VT to northern Maine. Truck handles this very, very well, 12MPG+, 6500lb trailer w/xtra fuel, tools, rigging but no loader.
3520+RC-2060, cutter offset 6" to left (swing+used universal draft pins on Imatch to relocate attachment), track on inside of front right wheel, R4's, flipped wide, no ballast. .9 gallons / acre, 1.5A/hr average, 1.25GPH mowing light to moderate brush at 3 to 5.5MPH. Very wet, nor-easter all weekend, tractor floats extremely well on soft ground - I leave tracks in the sod with my boots but no wheel ruts. Stability was fine. Cutter set low, stubble is at about 3", lots of ant hill strikes and a few rocks. I was a total sickle bar snob (JD5, cockshutt 30) but I'm not looking back - the rotary mower is great. Only thing it doesn't do as well is get close to edges and mow over obstacles. Tractor easily handles the mower - could do a 6' in the bushes, heavy grass not so much.
mowed 32 acres in 21 HRS, still have 14A to go.
3520+RC-2060, cutter offset 6" to left (swing+used universal draft pins on Imatch to relocate attachment), track on inside of front right wheel, R4's, flipped wide, no ballast. .9 gallons / acre, 1.5A/hr average, 1.25GPH mowing light to moderate brush at 3 to 5.5MPH. Very wet, nor-easter all weekend, tractor floats extremely well on soft ground - I leave tracks in the sod with my boots but no wheel ruts. Stability was fine. Cutter set low, stubble is at about 3", lots of ant hill strikes and a few rocks. I was a total sickle bar snob (JD5, cockshutt 30) but I'm not looking back - the rotary mower is great. Only thing it doesn't do as well is get close to edges and mow over obstacles. Tractor easily handles the mower - could do a 6' in the bushes, heavy grass not so much.
mowed 32 acres in 21 HRS, still have 14A to go.
