Howse vs Landpride

okiecraig · Mar 19, 2014

Thanks for all comments, guys!

the whispering oaks farm · Mar 20, 2014

okiecraig said:
Pappy: I am considering 2 dealers: one a wholesale outfit that sells 1 or 20 Howse units whenever, or a Kubota dealer. The Howse 500 is light-duty and costs $660; the United Implements Deluxe 672 BB is $530, so my math is a little off, almost $1200. The BB weighs 505 lbs.

I think I will buy the lightweight Howse just for grass and light brush, and keep and fix-up the the old IH for heavy duty stuff when clearing woods. I am also looking at a 3-pt 110-gal sprayer around $1400. You can guess I got about $2500 to spend and trying to maximize it!

Oh, the LP RCR1860 is 1525 and the BB 1000 at the Kubota dealer.

The price difference has a lot to do with who you would buy it from, Kubota dealers are overpriced on most things around here. I wanted a set of pallet forks and they were asking $1200 for a $600 set of QA forks everywhere else, and they were not "special" , just way overpriced.

oldnslo · Mar 20, 2014

One thing I discovered in looking at some of the different makes of rotary mowers in the blade tip speed can vary significantly. On the 5 ft models is varied from 11,000 to 14,000 ft/minute. Not sure if this holds true on the large models or not.

buckslayer5676 · Mar 20, 2014

oldnslo said:
One thing I discovered in looking at some of the different makes of rotary mowers in the blade tip speed can vary significantly. On the 5 ft models is varied from 11,000 to 14,000 ft/minute. Not sure if this holds true on the large models or not.

Is it always pretty much safe to assume that the higher blade tip speed, the better quality of cut there will be? I'm in the market for a finish mower and blade tip speed is something I've been keeping an eye on, thinking highest is always the best. Just want to make sure I'm not using this as a deal breaker unnecessarily. Land Pride mowers do seem to have the highest blade tip speed from what I've been seeing.

Poopdeck Pappy · Mar 20, 2014

When I was shopping for a 6' cutter, I checked the blade tip speed on the Rhino 172, Bushhog Squealer 172, Woods B72X and Land Pride RCR1872.

There wasn't enough difference in the blade tip speed between them to amount to a warm bucket of spit.

buckslayer5676 · Mar 20, 2014

Poopdeck Pappy said:
When I was shopping for a 6' cutter, I checked the blade tip speed on the Rhino 172, Bushhog Squealer 172, Woods B72X and Land Pride RCR1872.

There wasn't enough difference in the blade tip speed between them to amount to a warm bucket of spit.

There must be more of a discrepancy between blade tip speeds on finish mowers compared to rotary cutters for some reason. In comparing a Rhino XM600 and a Land Pride FDR1672, the XM600 is 14,085 FPM and the RDR1672 is 18,195 FPM.

Poopdeck Pappy · Mar 20, 2014

Wow, that IS a big difference. On the 6 foot rotary cutters, they were all somewhere in the general neighborhood of 14,900 if I remember correctly.

okiecraig · Mar 20, 2014

Engineers!!!! I am trying to connect the driveline to the gearbox on the Howse cutter. All the dang nanny-state safety devices are a pain. You remove a snap ring on the gearbox shaft, slip the PTO yoke over the shaft, put the shearpin in (all done - no probelm) then you are supposed to put the snap ring back on. Can't figure out how to do it. How can you install a snapring if you can't come from the front with a pair of snap ring pliers and expand the ring to place in the groove? How can you push the ring on from the side?

Any suggestions?