Flail Mower flail or rotary rough cut?

   / flail or rotary rough cut? #51  
So I did the apples to apples comparison. My medium duty Land Pride RCR1860 (60") verses a medium duty Land Pride 60" flail. My Land Pride rotary cost $1,400 new. From what I have read the Land Pride flail is priced at $3,200. Both the flail and the rotary are rated to cut 1" material. I have cut 2" diameter (including the bark) saplings now and then with my rotary cutter. I know people that have flails and love them. I do like their cut. But for the $1,800 difference I must be missing something here. Are the flails that much easier to mow with? Why would one pay $3,200 for something that one could buy of equal quality for $1,400 that does the same thing.

I think the questions are whether 1) a Landpride medium duty rotary cutter can be had for that price today (significantly higher for a 6ft medium duty from Landpride, Woods and Bush Hog when I was looking a couple of years ago) and 2) whether the Caroni TM1900 (75 inch cut) is roughly equivalent to the Landpride flail (which I have never seen). US manufacturers of flail mowers don't seem to have anything they are willing to sell for less than $2K. The TM1900 can be had, delivered, for less than that and many of us have used it as a medium duty flail. The US based companies seem to price their medium duty flails much higher and I presume it is for lack of volume/competition. I would expect to pay more for a flail but not double as Landpride seems to charge.
 
 

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