5' Rotary Cutter Options

[MESSMAKER]

Add Woods to your list and drop Countryline. Pretty good list. I don't know anything about Dirty Dog.

 

[maineac]

I have owned and used a wood M-54 for 40 years, cutting about 25 acres twice a year. Have replaced blades a couple of times and straightend a few dents. No problems

 

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If this is your first rotary cutter, I'd see if I could get a cheap unit off of CL/FBM/local auction and run that for a while, then decide if you need to invest in something heavy duty.

I got a practically new LandPride RCR1260 (light duty) at auction for $800 a few years ago (unused but not new), and it does what I need it to do (grass and light brush); anything heavier I yank out of the ground, or it waits up on the steep hill where my tractor won't go anyways...

 

[WADFL]

Post-purchase report coming shortly...

 

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Post-purchase report coming shortly...

TBN-style cliffhanger!

 

[cathy liebchen]

Get a Brown 415 it’s the best you can buy

 

[rademamj1]

I second the Brown rotary cutter. Check them out online. I believe they come with a 10 year warranty on the gear box.

 

[LD1]

Get a Brown 415 it’s the best you can buy

Best you can buy is a matter of opinion.

If you are gonna compare a 415 brown to a list of light duty cutters, yes it is a better cutter. And twice the weight as some of the ones in the list

But to be fair, you would have to compare it to similar cutters from the competition. Brown only makes a heavy duty cutter. The other manufacture make light, medium, and heavy duty. Comparing light and medium duty offerings to the brown is just silly.

 

[WADFL]

I bought the BadBoy…$1800 all in. Found it at a Tractor Supply over on the coast. It had just arrived.
I had a couple extra straps on the unit and it traveled home just fine. Was able to use the pallet forks to pull it off the trailer, using my box blade as counterweight.

This is a heavy tool and I’m struggling to get it on the 3ph.

For the money, this was the best product.

To address the auction comments, rotary cutters just don't seem to be resold often here in FL. I went to a couple equipment auctions up in GA this past summer - and watched a Frontier, Land Pride, and CountyLine go for 75% of the new prices. There's just not value in buying used right now for this equipment in my location.

Finding dealers with them in stock is harder. Of my original list of 5, two were in Georgia, one was in South Carolina, and I lucked upon the one I bought here 35 miles away from home.

 

[LD1]

I bought the BadBoy…$1800 all in. Found it at a Tractor Supply over on the coast. It had just arrived.
I had a couple extra straps on the unit and it traveled home just fine. Was able to use the pallet forks to pull it off the trailer, using my box blade as counterweight.

This is a heavy tool and I’m struggling to get it on the 3ph.

For the money, this was the best product.

To address the auction comments, rotary cutters just don't seem to be resold often here in FL. I went to a couple equipment auctions up in GA this past summer - and watched a Frontier, Land Pride, and CountyLine go for 75% of the new prices. There's just not value in buying used right now for this equipment in my location.

Finding dealers with them in stock is harder. Of my original list of 5, two were in Georgia, one was in South Carolina, and I lucked upon the one I bought here 35 miles away from home.

Well throwing location In I can certainly understand the decision.

I was under the assumption that all of these were located similar and reasonable distances from you. Cause if that was the case, $200 more for a BH215 would have been a better play. But not so much if you had to drive another few hundred miles just to get it