Flail Mower Titan Flail mower

[troverman]

Interesting, I thought flails produced a worse cut. Titan says my flail is 570 Lbs. I am looking at the rotaries and they are anywhere from 600-1200lb.
The biggest issue I have is my terrain, brambles (blackberries), and whatever is under the brush (usually branches, sometimes rocks)

Here's a link to one of the better rotary cutters, Land Pride:
https://cdn-assets.greatplainsmfg.com/ari/attach/lp/public/specs/326-047s.pdf

A 5-foot is listed at 478lbs.

 

[Guidshir]

I was thinking about it this morning, and this may be a solution.
The two upright plates attached to the deck have holes to bolt the triangle-side piece. The large pin connects the lift-arms to the two upright plates as well. The outside plate is bending and ruining everything attached.
My idea is to just connect the two plates using the existing holes with some nice grade-8 bolts. This would support the bending plate and allow me to cinch the two plates together. I though I would probably put nuts and spacers in between them as well to prevent any kind of shimmy.

 

[mangler]

I was thinking about it this morning, and this may be a solution.
The two upright plates attached to the deck have holes to bolt the triangle-side piece. The large pin connects the lift-arms to the two upright plates as well. The outside plate is bending and ruining everything attached.
My idea is to just connect the two plates using the existing holes with some nice grade-8 bolts. This would support the bending plate and allow me to cinch the two plates together. I though I would probably put nuts and spacers in between them as well to prevent any kind of shimmy.


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It will certainly help, but it may not solve the problem long term. The issue seems to be way to much flex in the uprights, leading to bending fatigue failures. The bolts will reduce the the flex some, but if it was my flail mower I would be welding horizontal braces between both uprights, front and back. One set as low as possible, and the other set mid way up. Angle iron or better, square tube.

In conjunction with the bollts I bet that would do it, and solve the a-frame issues at least.

It's not just an implement, it's a hobby

 

[Guidshir]

It's not just an implement, it's a hobby

No kidding!

You're right though, it needs more. I will have to load this thing and carry it an hour to get to a welder, but I may have to do that.

 

[troverman]

My method of adding additional steel as I showed in my upload has survived longer than the original. I don't think it will break. Adding another horizontal cross brace would also likely help and probably be easier than what I did.

 

[lilranch2001]

Running a piece of all thread across the entire length with jamnuts at each up-right and tying all the up-rights together may give a lot of strength. If there is room, I would opt for at least 1/2" diameter all thread