It is truely sad when you buy a quality attachment from the John Deere Store and it has CHINA labels all over it. Was thinking about a new Deere with a cab but I might as well buy something half price from Korea as they will probably be manufactured a couple buildings away from each other. A thick coat of green paint is probably the better part of the warranty.
The last I knew, the HX series cutters were made at the JD factory in Ontario, Canada. We have two HX10, and a CX15 cutter with weight box on left and right drop deck for cutting ditches.
We had an operator who was having to change out his pan (stump jumper) almost EVERY day!
Anyway, we have a lot of granite rocks and bvoulders near the surface that the frost heaves up. While going out to a project, I saw this same knuckle head using a JD rotary cutter as a "rock crusher", not even lifting the deck and just plowing through the rocks while cutting fire breaks.
After this guy resigned, we did not have ONE busted mower last year.
These HX cutters are about as heavy as you can get. I have not seen the "new design".
JD is good stuff. Kubota is good stuff.
"Jinma" and chinese steel? Thats where I draw the line. And yes, when you pay "gold" for JD Green, you want something made in the good old red,white and blue USA, or by our good neighbors to the North in Canada. Our HX cutters came from good old Canada.
