Mowing Mowing a Family Friend's Field

[eddieirvine]

looks great but you mentioned keeping the bucket lower? You must of forgot to do that ?

 

[Norfolktoad]

Here's the link to the mowing video. It's about a minute and eighteen seconds of incredibly satisfying grass and small tree leveling.

Great satisfaction in mowing tall grass and weeds. Only problem I have when mowing tall nettles, grass and thistles in the UK is the radiator gets blocked with grass seed and thistle down making the tractor run hot. I have to stop and blow the radiator out with the airline.

 

[pumasong]

Great video! I recently did something similar for a neighbour, about half an acre and too overgrown for his belt drive ride on mower.

I took my GR2120 over and did the whole thing with the grass collector removed in about an hour.

It was pretty much all the GR could handle but it managed it without mishap. Not bad for a little machine!

 

[bdhsfz6]

I mow a couple of my fields every year or two, just to keep the invasives from taking over. I used to use a brushog but lately, I've started using the offset flail. It's easier to see what I'm cutting and I'm not rolling over the uncut vegetation with the tractor.

I take the bucket off when finish mowing but leave it on when cutting the fields. That way, I can dig out the occasional woodchuck hole.

 

[eKretz]

I mowed a majorly overgrown 30 acre property some time back with my little JD and a *finish* belly mower. Took me 3 days. It was grown up over my head. Left the loader bucket on for sure, hovered it several inches off the ground. And definitely had the radiator problem. I had to stop every lap around and blow out the radiator or my temp gauge would start to get close to the red.

Never would have done it but for the fact that the guy I did it for had a tree service and traded me the removal of an 80 foot dead oak tree that was directly over my house and the neighbor's house as part of the deal.

 

[EddieWalker]

You mowed 30 acres with a belly mower? WOW!!!!! How long did that take? Did you need new blades when you where done?

 

[jyoutz]

You mowed 30 acres with a belly mower? WOW!!!!! How long did that take? Did you need new blades when you where done?

I cannot imagine doing that

 

[Gord Baker]

Here's the link to the mowing video. It's about a minute and eighteen seconds of incredibly satisfying grass and small tree leveling.

Very nicely done sir.

 

[Striker70]

For improved efficiency if you are using a Land Pride Mower remove the "Lawyer Engineering" rear discharge chute steel strip. This is on there to stop rear discharge from throwing debris backward and forcing it down. What really happens is that it is thrown forward toward you and builds up ahead of the mower and behind you OR if it is dry enough it blows past you while cutting as dust....really tasty there !! Have also had it build up behind the blade and the mower has to climb over it. Discharge strip blocker has about 10 bolts and easily removed and while it is not much better it does tend to allow better discharge......especially if you have 25 HP and a 6 foot mower.

 

[eKretz]

You mowed 30 acres with a belly mower? WOW!!!!! How long did that take? Did you need new blades when you where done?

Yes sir. As I said, it took me at least 3 days. Might have been 4, it was a few years ago. Mowing pretty much from after breakfast until near dusk. I resharpened the blades after this mow, but didn't need to replace them. And the loader bucket down low *did* save me from hitting some pretty gnarly stuff.

Also, I agreed to the trade before I saw the property. The guy had told me that the grass was only a foot or two high. After I saw it I told him he was going to be adding some money to his end and also covering fuel cost.