You are not explaining or do not know the entire story as it regards mr. farmswithjunk.
He was sold a bill of goods by the Alamo salesman that he bought his flail mower
from and his business suffered because of it.
I will look anyone in the eyes from Alamo that tries to refute my statement
simply because "they" being the "Alamo Industrial Americas saleman for Kentucky lied
to him about that flail mowers capabilities.
If they had sold him a Alamo Flail Crop Shredder the end would have been different as a flail crop shredder would have been more than a match for the conditions mowing to 2 inches in height it would have come out much differently and he would have required less time mowing.
If he had been sold the right flail mower being a flail crop shredder rated for specific frame size tractor that would have covered more acres per hour than any rotary and would have left a 2 inch height of cut.
This "Alamo" salesperson was only interested in making a sale and lost a customer for life BECAUSE he sold him the wrong flail mower claiming it would do everything for him in his contract mowing jobs. It was not going to happen and it did not happen.
In this example I believe Servis Rhino is wholly owned by Alamo if I remember correctly and their "Semi Mounted" (towed) 15 foot flail shredder which requires a 100 horse power frame size tractor tractor to operate it adequately as a semi mounted implement(towed) would have worked very well for his needs as it can cut low to the ground(one inch).
So if a fifteen foot flail crop shredder with a one hundred horsepower tractor is used and traveling at four miles per hour it covers 352 feet per minute times the 15 foot width of cut; it covers 5280 square feet per minute and 316,800 per hour in a clear path divided by 43,560 which is the area of one acre equals a bit more than 7 and 1/4 acres per hour.
AS I said he was sold a bill of goods and pie in the sky by this Alamo salesman
and there is no excuse for that and as a result he spent good money for a machine that was not big enough for the workload.
I am sorry they did this to him and if I was there it would not have happened.
I would have told him outright that the flail mower they are trying to sell you is too small and will cause you more work and fuel AND you need a flail crop shredder as you will cover more ground quickly in all mowing weather.
15 and 20 foot wide flail crop shredders are used to save time shred corn stalks, potato vines, cotton vines, sugar cane stubble, vegetable crop stubble and other field crops like wheat and alfalfa at the end of the season after harvest to cut the crop back to the ground to protect the roots of grass crops over the winter from freezing damage.
If anyone from Alamo wants to debate this and "attempt" to prove me wrong me fine, just keep it civil like I always have, and I always will.
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