Flail Mower Flail Mower Pipe Dream?

[Industrial Toys]

I usually only ever used the flail on high grass in the fall when it had dried out.

 

[darmstrong2319]

I had a Mahindra 2615 gear years ago and bought a offset flail to cut ditches 23 pto hp. In the thick grass I had to cut slow but with a 5 ft brush hog you could keep right on going. There’s no way I could handle a 6 ft flail with that tractor maybe 5 if if I wasn’t in a hurry and kept it short. Just my experience with 1 flail so take it for what its worth. Good luck

 

[Rocky Hoffler]

I would love to find a Alamo or Mott flail for 500 dollars there great mowers

 

[BrokenTrack]

I would love to find a Alamo or Mott flail for 500 dollars there great mowers

They are so simple that they really never wear out. EVERYTHING is able to be replaced, and easily at that. I do not even use ALAMO Parts anymore, I just go to a bearing store and use the bearings that fit.

I average $600 in knives, shackles and pins for 900 acres of the hardest mowing possible.

 

[DJ54]

I run a 6' Mott with my little IH 240 Utility. In tall grass, I have to go in first gear, but when clipping the Chickory, and Iron weeds, etc in the pasture, I mow in 2nd with no problem. I'm getting to the age, where most times, second gear is about all my ole' back can take anymore. I love the fact that it doesn't "throw" things, like my rotary cutter, and with the forward rotation, picks up, and cuts the grass/weeds the tractor tires mash down.

I bought mine this Spring off a buddy for $300, who buys & resells used equipment. I did have to buy a new PTO shaft, as the original was not with it. I'm thinking I got a new one through Agri-Supply for $139.00. It's not real pretty from apparently setting outside most of it's life, but mows great..!!

 

[leonz]

Hello and good evening DJ54,

I want to welcome you as the newest resident member of the "Flail Mower Nations" from The Great State of Ohio.

Happy mowing.

 

[DJ54]

Thanks, I've been lurking here for a while, and asked a couple of questions about flails earlier this year. Very informative group..!!

Last week, I posted my little Mott T38 pull type hammer knife mower on FaceBook Marketplace. I bought it 2 years ago, and used it to mow around the hayfield, next to the fence to barber things up for winter, and also clipped one of the small horse pastures, of Chickory, and other stemmy weeds the horses won't eat. It did a great job, and the main reason I went with the 3 pt. model. I built the offset tongue, so as to not run over tall weeds & grass, and briars. I built it using the original attaching points, and also kept the original tongue, if someday if I decided to sell it, the new owner could use what they want. It started, ran, and cut great, but with the 3 pt. model, really didn't have that much use for it, plus freed up some storage space.

I had 8 responses to the ad, within 4 hours. First guy that came to look, loaded it up, and took it home. He said it is intended to mow walking trails he built on his property, and was exactly what he was looking for.