Flail Mower Cutting lawn with flail mower.

[kkimura]

Last year I bought a CK2610 with EFGC 60 flail mower and posted a review of the EFGC after 15 hours. Since then, I followed reviews and comments on this site related to all flails. The collective wisdom has shortened my learning curve. I知 glad I bought the tractor and flail mower. I don稚 need either as my lawn is at .5 acre, slightly sloping to a 2 acre field of reed canary grass on wet ground. Prior to the tractor, I cut everything with a 21 Honda self propelled mower. Attached is a picture of the last mowing. In the distance is my field of reed canary grass. The flail roller is set one bolt hole lower than the lowest setting with the top link on the short side. The tips of the 添 blades are within a 1/4 of the ground. After a couple more mowings, I値l drop the roller a little more and lengthen the top link to increase the length of lawn grass but for now the blade tips do a good job of removing moss build up. For those of you wondering about the flail cut on a lawn, the picture will give you an idea. It痴 not the same as my push mower but it痴 passable and I get to do most of the mowing sitting down. If your just cutting lawn with occasional brush work, I wouldn稚 be too concerned about flail width and tractor hp. When I tried to cut the reed canary grass, I needed all the hp the tractor produced and still used the draft control to reduce cutting resistance.

 

[jeff9366]

Last year I bought a CK2610 with EFGC 60" flail mower, made in China, imported by Braber Equipment. I posted a review of the EFGC after 15 hours. Since then I followed reviews and comments on this site related to all flails. The collective wisdom has shortened my learning curve.

I'm glad I bought the tractor and flail mower. Prior to the tractor, I cut my 1/2 acre lawn with a 21(?) Honda self propelled mower. The flail cut does not equal the Honda mower cut but flail cut is passable and now I do most of the mowing sitting down. For those wondering about the flail cut on a lawn, study the picture. In the distance is my field of reed canary grass.

The flail roller is set one bolt hole lower than the lowest setting with the top link on the short side. The tips of the 添 blades are within a 1/4" of the ground. After a couple more mowings, I'lll drop the roller a little more and lengthen the top link to increase the length of lawn grass. The flail blade tips do a good job of removing moss build up.

If you are cutting lawn with just occasional brush work, do not be too concerned about flail width and tractor horsepower. The lawn slopes to a two acre field of reed canary grass on wet ground. When I cut fiberous reed canary grass I needed all the horsepower the tractor produced and additionally raised the (draft) (position?) control to reduce flail load.

 

[majorwager]

Jeffy,
Wierd copy of OP post. Are you engaged in creative writing skills lessons? Felt the need to rewrite the post to your standards? Does seem creepy

Do you suggest all posts be submitted to you for editing, since we mere mortals may lack the ability for a coherent presentation of the facts? Arrogant and creepy.

EDIT: Consider English might not be first language of some posters, but they are trying.

 

[chim]

I often don't bother reading posts where everything is run together. There are times I probably miss valuable information when I skip posts after running into multiple errors (their/there/they're, vice/vise, brake/break, etc. This is not due to an elitist attitude. It is because it is difficult for me to read easily.

At work I sometimes receive documents in which the sender doesn't bother with paragraphs. Since skipping over them isn't an option, I usually copy, paste and split them up into segments I can digest.

 

[ovrszd]

So maybe the problem is more in the reader's comprehension skills rather than the writer's skills?

I consider it arrogant and condescending to mention errors. To completely edit and repost is definitely creepy.

 

[ovrszd]

Last year I bought a CK2610 with EFGC 60 flail mower and posted a review of the EFGC after 15 hours. Since then, I followed reviews and comments on this site related to all flails. The collective wisdom has shortened my learning curve. I知 glad I bought the tractor and flail mower. I don稚 need either as my lawn is at .5 acre, slightly sloping to a 2 acre field of reed canary grass on wet ground. Prior to the tractor, I cut everything with a 21 Honda self propelled mower. Attached is a picture of the last mowing. In the distance is my field of reed canary grass. The flail roller is set one bolt hole lower than the lowest setting with the top link on the short side. The tips of the 添 blades are within a 1/4 of the ground. After a couple more mowings, I値l drop the roller a little more and lengthen the top link to increase the length of lawn grass but for now the blade tips do a good job of removing moss build up. For those of you wondering about the flail cut on a lawn, the picture will give you an idea. It痴 not the same as my push mower but it痴 passable and I get to do most of the mowing sitting down. If your just cutting lawn with occasional brush work, I wouldn稚 be too concerned about flail width and tractor hp. When I tried to cut the reed canary grass, I needed all the hp the tractor produced and still used the draft control to reduce cutting resistance.

I'll bet it does take more HP to cut that low. But once you get it groomed to that level it should be easier to maintain with less power.

 

[jeff9366]

To completely edit and repost is definitely creepy.

OVERSZD: I read your posts with attention.

It is pointless for some to post unintelligible mish-mashes of words.

The EDIT key is for everyone.

Paragraphing, or at least an effort to paragraph, is not difficult.



Definition of paragraph

1 a : a subdivision of a written composition that consists of one or more sentences, deals with one point or gives the words of one speaker, and begins on a new usually indented line


To convert an unparagrphed mish-mash of words into paragraphs, while maintaining the OP's sense, requires reading comprehension. I did not mention any errors, though the mish-mash includes some, as I comprehend the post. I merely edited the OP's mish-mash.

I speculate I spent more time with the EDIT than OP spent in the CREATION.

 

[chim]

So maybe the problem is more in the reader's comprehension skills rather than the writer's skills?.........................

I did post:

"This is not due to an elitist attitude. It is because it is difficult for me to read easily."

There was no attempt to put anyone down, or criticize them.

I'm fairly certain that I have some sort of learning disability that wasn't diagnosed when I was in school. I can comprehend things when they are presented in an orderly fashion, and have aced courses in electrical theory. I have trouble sorting things out when the writer just runs everything together.

To give you an idea of how things can look to me, take a large paragraph and eliminate all the caps, punctuation and spaces between the words.

The second issue is the misuse of words. My understanding of what the writer is attempting to convey loses its momentum when I get sidetracked thinking "that should have been too, not to", or "he meant vise, not vice".

 

[jeff9366]

I consider it arrogant and condescending to mention errors.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1965 at age seventeen. I started college with the University of Maryland military overseas program at age 19. My first prof was Ms. Joyce Felte, who taught English 101, The Sentence, and English 102, The Paragraph. She returned my papers brightened with red ink, indicating errors. Ms. Felte is one of the few college profs whose name I remember. I am grateful for Ms. Felte's corrections fifty years later.

 

[majorwager]

Jeffy
You are very confused. T-B-N is NOT a University Envionment. Noted previously, this is just a recreational inclusive forum for imperfect tractor folks. Pretty sure Muhammad doesn't require being a literary scholar as a condition for membership.

Chim, explanation rings hollow, If you can rewrite the post, it means you actually understood in original text.

Jeffy, Infusing your own rules, just not your place.

EDIT: No one is forced to join, read, EDIT, or participate in forum posts. Some folks are less gifted in application of the Queen's English. Rather than mock or denigrate an OP, the preferable solution is to simply move on, w/o comment. I note errors, easily discernable the Poster's intent. An Elitist by any other name is still................

Remember the poster' first language might NOT be English!!!