First Choice Vs Kingkutter

[JohnS]

When you are refering to "flex arms", do you mean some people use the flex chains without the lift arms attached to the lift pins? I would agree that sounds very dangerous.

From the link that was provided, the lift arms are still attached to the mower lift pins. The check chains go from the top link attach point to loops mounted on the front of mower. The previous pic from RichZ, had the chains attach to the lift pins. Offhand, I would think there is little difference between the two, but there could be something I'm missing. Figured that making attachment points to all your implements was more work, and someone probably wouldn't have gone through the extra effort, if there wasn't an advantage. I just couldn't figure it out. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[RichZ]

As usual, JMIII is right. I also keep the lower arms attached to the brush hog, as well as the check chains. If you were to detach the arms, and just use the chains, the brush hog would swing around wildly, and sure would be dangerous. I had no idea that anyone did something like that!!/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[JohnMiller3]

Some people remove these (leveling assembly), in place of chains while brush hogging for “flexing purposes”… not the lift arms… /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif

 

[djradz]

John, as you can see, my tractor is not one that I'm probably experiencing "leak-down", at least not yet. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif However, mowing and brush hogging (yes I have the same set-up on my Woods M5 Rotary Cutter) gives me a near perfectly level cut even over varying ground. The chains do not flex as the weight of the cutter is always on them, unless I have used the arms to lift them up. I agree on your point, however if I where chopping trees in excess of a few inches since in this case the mower/hog could pop up a little. However, this is no different than if your not using chains. Your tractor, unless it has down-pressure on the 3-pt, still would allow the deck of the mower or hog to lift when coming upon something as a significantly sized tree or bolder. Thanks for the URL posting tip. I've wondered about this for some time.