woodmaxx flail mower?

[Fallon]

Hi all,

Looks like Woodmaxx has updated their site with another batch of flails coming in later this year......in green to match my tractor now as well. I'm tempted to put down a deposit for the 62" hydraulic offset model unless somebody can talk me out of one. Their site is now adverting the NSK bearings and from what I've read the scraper has been re-positioned as well, the only two complaints I've come across reading up on them as much as possible here.

I'm curious how folks who have the adjustable offset model are running their hydraulics. Does most everybody run them off of rear remotes? I kind of like the idea of running them off the loader controls. Perhaps off a third function control or even tied into the curl function ports for true left and right control/operation as this member has done....

Woodmaxx Flail Mower First Impressions - YouTube

When I built the hydraulics on my L3200 with the help of FitRite I had 3 spools. 1 on a lever & 2 on a joystick to match my TnT setup. It functioned nice & the joystick made the TnT move in line with the joystick. Despite how intuitive it was I'm not sure if you through the time & expense again. I did wait months to get FitRite TnT cylinders on the new L4060 though, which was worth it. Just went OEM for the valves without a nice joystick for TnT.

There are 3 OEM spools in my new L4060 & only 1 has the throw matching anything (toplink). In less than an hour of usage I'm a good chunk of the way to translating the lever throw to sidelink actuation with muscle memory despite the lever being 90 degrees off.

If you have rear remotes I'd use those. Short cheap hoses. Long hoses up to the front won't be cheap. Also, I move my loader a lot when mowing so I want to keep those hydraulics intact. I do usually dump the bucket though, so curl could be avalible.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I looked at Woodmaxx site today to check their flail mowers. I've focused on their 78H because of the significant offset with the hydraulic cylinder.

They claim full right offset at 57" right of center but I assume that is probably to outside of the mower housing? I'm curious how far right of center the actual end cutters are. One of my uses will be cutting around the edges of two ponds. Outside of my rear tires are 35" from center line of tractor.

Roy measured his Caroni for me and it would only cut about 12-13" outside my tires and I'm not getting that close to the edge.

The ones with hydraulic offset seem to offset much farther than ones that you move hitch?

 

[Ricn]

My 62H offset is not what I expected, just not enough side to side. Sorry, I have not measured just how much beyond the tires but it ain't much at all. My Kubota L2501 is close to 59 inches outside to outside of rear industrial tires but can't mow my driveway sides due to the wheels/tires being to close to the ditch even with the offset all the way out. Ok for along the fences though, no ditch there and why I got the offset cylinder for the most part. I do like everything else about this mower after getting things adjusted properly.

Ricn

 

[leonz]

Please send Powerscol a PM and ask him about his italian boom mounted flail mower, he also mows road ditch banks with it too.

I looked at Woodmaxx site today to check their flail mowers. I've focused on their 78H because of the significant offset with the hydraulic cylinder.

They claim full right offset at 57" right of center but I assume that is probably to outside of the mower housing? I'm curious how far right of center the actual end cutters are. One of my uses will be cutting around the edges of two ponds. Outside of my rear tires are 35" from center line of tractor.





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Roy measured his Caroni for me and it would only cut about 12-13" outside my tires and I'm not getting that close to the edge.

The ones with hydraulic offset seem to offset much farther than ones that you move hitch?

 

[lostcreekranch]

Please send Powerscol a PM and ask him about his italian boom mounted flail mower, he also mows road ditch banks with it too.

I've already looked at those. Too high priced for mowing around ponds once or twice a year. Balance of my use is pastures and the 8-9 acres around the house at ranch.

I've looked at the Land Pride FM2584 and FM3188 but, over $6K and will only cut about 16" outside rear tires. I was hoping that they had more offset because both have CAT 1 / CAT 2 hitches so I could use with both 46 and 96 HP tractors. The Woodmaxx 78H is CAT 1 only and the 88H is CAT 2 only.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Interesting that the Woodmaxx FM charts shows that the FM78H is Cat1-Cat2 for 3 point hitch while specification show Cat 1 only???

https://doc-04-2s-docs.googleuserco...5535708&hash=bshm0irlntl37rhmqrtckk80aaear90n

Can any of you with FM78H confirm one way or the other?

Thanks.

 

[leonz]

They can be used as a standard flail mower also so keep that in mind otherwise your looking at buying municipal surplus at auction.

 

[sidecarist]

I looked at Woodmaxx site today to check their flail mowers. I've focused on their 78H because of the significant offset with the hydraulic cylinder.

They claim full right offset at 57" right of center but I assume that is probably to outside of the mower housing? I'm curious how far right of center the actual end cutters are. One of my uses will be cutting around the edges of two ponds. Outside of my rear tires are 35" from center line of tractor.

Roy measured his Caroni for me and it would only cut about 12-13" outside my tires and I'm not getting that close to the edge.

The ones with hydraulic offset seem to offset much farther than ones that you move hitch?

I measured mine today, 57" offset from center of the top pin to the edge of the mower housing, and the blades cut about 1.5" in from outside of the end the end plate. I could likely get another 1"-1.5" offset out of my 3pt.

Hope this helps.

 

[atomchaser]

Interesting that the Woodmaxx FM charts shows that the FM78H is Cat1-Cat2 for 3 point hitch while specification show Cat 1 only???

https://doc-04-2s-docs.googleuserco...5535708&hash=bshm0irlntl37rhmqrtckk80aaear90n

Can any of you with FM78H confirm one way or the other?

Thanks.

Mine came configured as Category 1.

 

[sidecarist]

Interesting that the Woodmaxx FM charts shows that the FM78H is Cat1-Cat2 for 3 point hitch while specification show Cat 1 only???

https://doc-04-2s-docs.googleuserco...5535708&hash=bshm0irlntl37rhmqrtckk80aaear90n

Can any of you with FM78H confirm one way or the other?

Thanks.

Mine is set up so that you can reverse the pins and use it on a Cat 2. It would be awfully small on most tractors that use Cat 2 hitches though.