Gang Mowers

PBMAX · Jun 23, 2000

Thomas, I bought a Polaris 11.5 hp pull behind a couple of months a go..It's powered by techumsa..so far it has done quite well. I have been using it behind my 18 hp scott.With 46" deck.the pull behind is also 46" and it has an offset cabability...allowing a 6"over lap give or take a couple of inches and gives me about an 80" cut..I have used it on the top half of my 8 acres with the scott and on the bottom with my 4wheeler.I cut stuff 10" with out bogging at 5mph..ANd it only has a max hight of 4.5"...I plan to put bigger wheels on it to raise it a couple more inches..and hang some heavy rubber shielding on the front and sides..I do like the fact that it is rear discharge..I looked at one mad by bush'm hog it was smaller in cut and hp but was actually a small hog. the polaris is actually a three blade finish mower with a pretty nice cut..If you are interested go to polaris.com they carry all kinds of four wheeler attachments I haven't looked in a while...I mention the front mount since some mentioned monuverability.. BTW I paid $1100 with tax. the hog was $1200+....Good luck..

Lil' PaulEdited by PBurns on 6/23/00 08:55 PM.

warthog · Jun 21, 2006

PBMAX said:
Thomas, I bought a Polaris 11.5 hp pull behind a couple of months a go..It's powered by techumsa..so far it has done quite well. I have been using it behind my 18 hp scott.With 46" deck.the pull behind is also 46" and it has an offset cabability...allowing a 6"over lap give or take a couple of inches and gives me about an 80" cut..I have used it on the top half of my 8 acres with the scott and on the bottom with my 4wheeler.I cut stuff 10" with out bogging at 5mph..ANd it only has a max hight of 4.5"...I plan to put bigger wheels on it to raise it a couple more inches..and hang some heavy rubber shielding on the front and sides..I do like the fact that it is rear discharge..I looked at one mad by bush'm hog it was smaller in cut and hp but was actually a small hog. the polaris is actually a three blade finish mower with a pretty nice cut..If you are interested go to polaris.com they carry all kinds of four wheeler attachments I haven't looked in a while...I mention the front mount since some mentioned monuverability.. BTW I paid $1100 with tax. the hog was $1200+....Good luck..

Lil' PaulEdited by PBurns on 6/23/00 08:55 PM.

Careful on that Polaris branded stuff. All those finish and rough cut mowers are actually Swishers. I own a swisher and can tell you that these things will fall apart around you after about 40 or 50 hours use. Weak spindles and the way the pulley's are attached is pathetic. I replaced 5 spindles before the one year warranty ran out. That's right.... replaced two spindles TWICE and the other one once. The frame and deck are great but the mechanics inside are really weak. However, I still love this and wish I just had one that would stay together. Very usable and a great tool.

sandman2234 · Jun 21, 2006

I have seen the mower for the four wheeler that your inquiring about. The one I saw was made by Bushhog.
I built one very similiar to it, but a little wider back in the nineties. According to the electrician that bought it off my workbench before I even finished it, (and paid me to finish it) it really worked great.
The one I built was 8 foot wide.

Steiner version of gang mowers.

Bushhog version of gang mower in a finish mower.

David from jax