If I may tag along with additional questions, I have a
L3901 hydro with loaded rear tires and would like to get a ditch bank flail mower soon, I keep going back to a 60inch from Mechmaxx but don't want to make the tractor too tippy. Anyone put a ditch bank mower onto a
L3901 able to share some insight?
Your mule is much too light in weight even with loaded rear tires
for a 60 inch boom mounted orchard and vineyard flail shredder.
Please visit both the DEL MORINO and MASCHIO web pages and take
the time to look at well designed rear views of the boom mounted flail
shredders illustrating various tractor model center lines being the center
of gravity when these flail shredders are operated with the boom fully
extended horizontally with a level mowing surface and the well illustrated
below horizon down angles that each mower is designed to reach in its
fully extended position as well as the fully elevated position with the
flail shredder extended outward mowing at an angle above horizontal
and at the 90 degree angle.
I must emphasize this next point greatly to you:
YOU must understand and visualize the following example
You are standing up holding a 16 foot long 2 by 6 and at the end of the 2 by 6
you have a 5 gallon pail of gear oil hanging on it with a couple of nails to hold
the bail in place and every movement forward or backward will be transmitted
to those 2 nails holding the pail in place.
You must understand that a boom mounted orchard and vineyard flail shredder
must be treated as an implement that has no over center control valve to slow it
inertia with its swing speed because the boom is offset and it is not mounted
rigidly to a single pivot point that does not and will not allow it to swing freely
in any direction or elevation.
You also need rear wheel weights and front wheel weights to counter and offset
the over center forces created by the flail shredder when it is moving in an
elevated position above the centerline/center of gravity of the mule you have.
I have attached both the Del Morino and Maschio flail mower brochures for
you to examine. You must read them carefully and completely and come
back to the forum and ask questions and go back and read the well written
descriptions and examine the operating widths below horizontal elevations
that these mowers will operate under and you will fully understand that a
60 inch boom mounted flail shredder OF ANY MANUFACTURE is much too
heavy to use on your mule.
Either of the Del Morino or Maschio 48 inch flail shredders will work for you
as long as you have wheel weights on the left side front and rear tires of your
L3901 mule.
I cannot emphasize enough to you that the physics involved in the right side
movement of a boom mounted orchard and vineyard shredder can and will
cause a tip over if the implement is too wide and heavy and you will be beyond
the point of yelling-
LUCY!!! YOU GOT SOME SPLAININ TO DO.
