Flail Mowers

[DemcoEd]

Hi everyone, I've been looking at this web site for the last 4-5 years and have truly enjoyed learning from all of you. This is my first post however and hopefully you guys can help me out.

I live on an acreage in Minnesota and mow about 4 acres every week. A portion of that is an old pasture that has a creek running through it. The grass that is in the bottom near the creek is extremely thick and grows fast.

I travel for my job and can only mow on the weekends which causes me to mow the grass when it truly is too long. I mow with a 84" Land Pride rear discharge mower that I feel is a very well built machine. The problem however I end up getting so much cut grass that it can't decompose fast enough and around this time of the year it seems I'm cutting more old grass than the new growth that needs to be cut.

I have read about flail mowers and am wondering if that would be a better option for me instead of the finishing mower.

I have a New Holland TC40DA which is 40 hp and has a hydro so am looking for advise on how large of a flail mower to look at.

I currently mow with a 84" mower and would like to stay that large or possible larger. I'm thinking with the hydro transmission I could travel slower if needed when the grass crop is heavy.

In my part of the country I have never seen a flail mower to know much about them. When I look on the net it seems they are in the eastern and western states but rare here in the midwest.

I'm looking for any help you can give me.

(PS I have several pieces of Land Pride equipment and they would be a brand I would certainly take a look at.)
Thanks

 

[flusher]

Hi everyone, I've been looking at this web site for the last 4-5 years and have truly enjoyed learning from all of you. This is my first post however and hopefully you guys can help me out.

I live on an acreage in Minnesota and mow about 4 acres every week. A portion of that is an old pasture that has a creek running through it. The grass that is in the bottom near the creek is extremely thick and grows fast.

I travel for my job and can only mow on the weekends which causes me to mow the grass when it truly is too long. I mow with a 84" Land Pride rear discharge mower that I feel is a very well built machine. The problem however I end up getting so much cut grass that it can't decompose fast enough and around this time of the year it seems I'm cutting more old grass than the new growth that needs to be cut.

I have read about flail mowers and am wondering if that would be a better option for me instead of the finishing mower.

I have a New Holland TC40DA which is 40 hp and has a hydro so am looking for advise on how large of a flail mower to look at.

I currently mow with a 84" mower and would like to stay that large or possible larger. I'm thinking with the hydro transmission I could travel slower if needed when the grass crop is heavy.

In my part of the country I have never seen a flail mower to know much about them. When I look on the net it seems they are in the eastern and western states but rare here in the midwest.

I'm looking for any help you can give me.

(PS I have several pieces of Land Pride equipment and they would be a brand I would certainly take a look at.)
Thanks

Just had a conversation with my tractor dealer yesterday about a flail mower for my Mahindra 5525 (54 hp engine, 45 hp pto). Learned that the 5525 can handle flails as large as 10 ft. I'd be satisfied with a 6-7 ft flail for my 10 acre place (6 acres in hay). Works out to about 4 hp per foot of flail.

Do a TBN search on flail and you'll find a bunch of flail mower threads including a recent long thread with much info on Caroni flails (from Agri Supply) and Value Leader flails (4-6 ft sizes).

 

[spo307]

5hp per foot of PTO hp, I have 45 hp and cut with an 88" alamo flail 3 to 4 foot grass no problem, flails have two types of drum heads ( what the blades attatch to) fine cut and rough cut, fine has about 100 or so blade stations, rough cut is 88 ( on a flail 88" mower) there are also different gauge blades, siper duty heavy ( for cutting brush ) and medium to light weight, I get my blades belts and parts from montage.inc and flailmaster my super duty 88 weighs about 1k

I bought a used flail for $700 ( steal ) and put around 700 into it, worth about $3500.00
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