Doing Some Lot Cleanup
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I know just a little bit about flail mowers, but tell us more about the tractor and what part of the world you're in.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I know just a little bit about flail mowers, but tell us more about the tractor and what part of the world you're in. )</font>
The tractor (Holder) is a friends. He uses it mainly for snowblowing in the winter, so it's not a big deal to borrow it in the summer to do some mowing. I'm up in the Eastern Ontario region of Canada....I've got a few other photo posts on here.
The tractor (Holder) is a friends. He uses it mainly for snowblowing in the winter, so it's not a big deal to borrow it in the summer to do some mowing. I'm up in the Eastern Ontario region of Canada....I've got a few other photo posts on here.
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I've seen a bunch of those tractors up in Maine during the winters. A lot of towns own them to plow out the sidewalks after a snowstorm. I've seen them with plows, snow blowers, sanders on the back, and power brooms in the spring to clean up all the road sand. It looks to be a very useful tractor.
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Yup, we've got 4 of 'em in our City organization. We use them with a snowblower mounted for clearing snow off of bridge sidewalks, around buildings and walking paths...just about anywhere it's too tight to get a pick-up with a plow into. Each one also has a salt spreader mounted on the back end. We also use them for pushing leaves in the gutters in the fall. They have very large U shaped "blades" mounted, and they push a whole block in one sweep to an intersection where a endloader picks them up and dumps into a dumptruck.
They're really handy pieces of equipment, but I'd think they're a little pricey for the average tractor owner type.
Yup, we've got 4 of 'em in our City organization. We use them with a snowblower mounted for clearing snow off of bridge sidewalks, around buildings and walking paths...just about anywhere it's too tight to get a pick-up with a plow into. Each one also has a salt spreader mounted on the back end. We also use them for pushing leaves in the gutters in the fall. They have very large U shaped "blades" mounted, and they push a whole block in one sweep to an intersection where a endloader picks them up and dumps into a dumptruck.
They're really handy pieces of equipment, but I'd think they're a little pricey for the average tractor owner type.
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Yeah, every City or Township around here owns a bunch of them. You see them mostly either snowplowing sidewalks or ditch mowing (and mowing other rougher areas). Apparently they can actually work on a 45 degree angle. The seat in this one actually tilts to faciltate that.
They are very expensive for the average homeowner/farmer. My buddy actually worked for Holder and manages to find good deals on them. Beleive it or not, but he has a TOTAL of $5500 in this particualr machine....CANADIAN! (minus the mower). Of course it isn't a hydro or have air conditioning...unlike the City owned ones (pretty much mandatory for them /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif ). He has 2 more, one of them a hydro, but I'm not sure how much he has invested in them. He was talking of going to to North Carolina where he's heard of a machine for $7000.
They are very expensive for the average homeowner/farmer. My buddy actually worked for Holder and manages to find good deals on them. Beleive it or not, but he has a TOTAL of $5500 in this particualr machine....CANADIAN! (minus the mower). Of course it isn't a hydro or have air conditioning...unlike the City owned ones (pretty much mandatory for them /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif ). He has 2 more, one of them a hydro, but I'm not sure how much he has invested in them. He was talking of going to to North Carolina where he's heard of a machine for $7000.