What's the thickest crap you've mowed? Picture Heavy

[Stubee]

I now see the OP was talking about a deck, not a rear rotary cutter. That is some impressive cutting with a deck.

 

[oosik]

I cut a small pasture with my JD G100 belly mower with the field grass about a foot high or so. Nothing like the OP got into with his unit. Good job. Now if you want to see some REALLY MEAN cutting - go to the Brown Agri site and watch some of their tree cutter videos. I would rent equipment before I put any tractor of mine thru that kind of mess. These videos are true validation to the warning on rear cutters - "stay back 300 feet".

 

[LD1]

Yep, you really need a rotary cutter.

 

[JRobyn]

It wasn't me (thankfully), it was my BIL that we hired to "mow" our property the first time after we bought it. The back fields, about 10 acres, had been in tobacco about 20 years prior and were left fallow for that long. They were mostly blackberry vines, some almost 2 in. in diameter, averaging about 6 ft tall, with some over 10 ft. He mowed it with an old 9n with a 5ft rotary cutter.

 

[JRobyn]

I have about 8 acres like this,,,

That field was cut with the sickle, the thicker, and taller, the better

When I am too lazy to walk, I got a flail mower that makes short work of the field!! :cool2:

CAD, you must wax and polish those sweet old Gravelys every week! I've got that same sickle, except mine has a 6 ft bar. Have to check my fillings after every use.

 

[orangeandgreen]

Thickest for me is the yearly mowing of the CRP warm season native grass. It averages 4 to 6 feet tall which is a couple feet above the hood of my L3240. It doesn't like going above 3 mph which makes for some really long days in the hot sun.

 

[LD1]

Thickest for me is the yearly mowing of the CRP warm season native grass. It averages 4 to 6 feet tall which is a couple feet above the hood of my L3240. It doesn't like going above 3 mph which makes for some really long days in the hot sun.

Are you mowing that with a finish mower? Or a brush hog?

 

[SPYDERLK]

For me it was rose bushes using a 45HP PTO driving a 5 ft bushog on a JD 2010 tricycle. At their age of neglect each bush was over 10 feet high and about that wide growing from a dense base about 4ft dia. ... 1st gear. Run the front through the center like a knife; huddle behind the steering wheel and straddle with the rears to capture it as it went under the cutter. It took all the HP but there was nothing left. ... Very satisfying.

 

[MossRoad]

Well, this is a typical field for me. 5'+ high weeds. No problem. Sorry for the crummy quality video. It was taken back around 2002, back when band-width was voodoo! :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Multiflora rose? No problem!