I am enjoying our new 3800 with FEL and Bush Hog box blade. In maintaining our gravel road and grading our new home site it has been the perfect combo. My builder, who recommended a manual tranny tractor and who didn't see why we were getting the blade is now completely converted! He used the FEL to backfill the foundation and the blade to grade the site and loves it!
Next purchase will be a cutter to edge the road, clear a few small fields, cut trails around the property, etc.
Suggestions? My local dealer deals mostly with Bush Hog and I can order Land Pride.
A flail mower is a safer mower in my opinion,
as it will not throw objects as they are contained
within the mower hood after impact and fall out
of the mower and you will more able to control
the invasives as you can mow right down to the
ground with it more often.
The entire width of the flail mower is slicing brush
at all times where a rotary cutter is only using half
its cutting edge at work with the other blade always
trailing.
The flailmower is also quieter in operation as well.
The more knives you have the finer the shredding
and the faster the decomposition of the brush reducing
it to compost and dust quickly.
Land pride has two 60 and 72 inch flailmowers
with the scoop knives which will shred one inch material
and and 2 88-inch flailmower models with finish knives
and hammer knives.
You can run a wider flailmower just like a wider snow blower
with no difficulty you just have to go a bit slower in some spots
The other thing is they make more money with rotary
cutters so keep this in mind when they tell you that you
do not want a flailmower because they cost more or that
a flailmower is unsafe to use or is less efficient or uses
more horsepower than a rotary cutter.
(if they start that crap I can gladly come up there and look them in the eye if you like)
There is a lot of information about flailmowers in the forums
and many stories about the accidents and injuries related
to rotary cutters.
MY dad ran a 7 foot John Deere finish flailmower behind his Ford Jubilee
and was mowing down 10 foot brush with it and once a week after that
and he never had any issues with it and the pasture always looked nice
right down to the sod.
I simply want you to be an informed consumer of
information and that is all I ever wanted with regard to
flailmowers and fuel filtration.
Edit:
Please check with Ken sweet about the flailmowers that he carries
As he is a forum sponsor in good standing.
When you are ready to purchase a snow caster please
let us know here on the forum so we can help you
with that as well.
