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"Yes there is; the explanation is they are less expensive to manufacture and do not require a sheet press roller to make the mower hood and they are an implement that requires less precision in manufacture trailed or mounted implement due to the simple box type welding construction and you simply get what you pay for because they are less expensive to mass produce from sheet steel using plasma or water jet cutters for the individual weldments.
The profit mark up for a retail sale of a rotary cutter is also greater due to its simplicity in construction and its lower weight in some models of rotary cutters.
One should not wonder why the new rotary cutters have safety chains and rubber flaps to cover the entrance width and discharge width of a mower
as they will hit things and throw them considerable distances. The manufacturers have added these "refinements" to reduce the possibility of ejecting an object at a high rate of speed and the chains and flaps reduce the possibility of the object that was impacted traveling very far IF the safety chains and flaps are intact.
In one example the King Cutter folks state in thier XB mower manual that no person should be within several hundred feet of one of thier mowers and mowing should be stopped if a person comes within several hundred feet of
one of their mowers in operation per the owners manual.
Our national highway system has created a need for mowing due simply to its design and construction during the Eisenhower Administration.
If General Eisenhower had not seen the Autobahn for first time when he entered Germany we may not have the mess we have to pay for now and will continue ot pay for in the future as he said "we need roads constructed like this in the United States" which already had an existing highway and Passenger Rail System which died by 1963 due to the new highway system and air travel by passenger jet.
What he failed to realise is simply the Autobahn was a very narrow corridor in a very small country consuming a very small amount of actual land mass in square area in relation to the German republics total size in square miles at the time. The reason rail travel is so easy in Europe is that it is simply a smaller land mass in total square area.
People dont think about it but the national highway system in the entire land mass of the United states has covered 3 percent of its surface square area from what I remember. This created drainage ditches and embankment ditches that require mowing most of which is not typically required by a pasenger rail network.
It has has created a money eating monster of enormous proportions relating to maintaining the rights of way by the most economical means possible which has created a secondary market for rotary cutters of massive proportions and the municipalites desire to hire to lowest bidder was created by the economic boondoggle of reduced revenues in these municipalites.
Whoah there Sparky...
"Yes there is"....and from there on, you've dropped off the deep end pard....
Your line of reasoning is yet ANOTHER point where rotaries beat the living daylights out of expensive, inefficient, fragile, maintenance intensive, slow flail mowers. (simplicity of design/construction is an attribute that rotaries have and flails just never will) Thanks for pointing that out.....Once again, if I was in the business of manufacturing/selling flails, I'd pay you quite handsomely to QUIT posting.....You're providing more ammo AGAINST flails than I can offer.
Rotaries sell over 100 to 1 because they're less expensive, require less HP, they're more efficient, and much less maintenance intensive, all the while doing an excellent job.
95% of commercial mowing is done with rotaries because they're FAR more cost efficient, labor efficient, time efficient, ect.....,
Your tangent on Eisenhower/Interstate Hwy system is...... well....entertaining......disjointed from reality, having virtually NOTHING to do with the topic being discussed in this thread, and utter nonsense...... but entertaining. I'm quite sure Ike would be rolling in the isle laughing at the ridiculous comments you have regarding his contributions to the national hwy system.
First you TRY to make a case that rotaries are far less complicated in their construction, which contributes to their lower cost of construction, then you go in a totally different direction, contending flails are less complicated. Which is it? (I already know the answer, but REALLY want to hear you waffle on THIS matter
)
And you might wanna learn how to properly use quotes.....Altering MY comments by including your nonsense as part of the quoted text is simply unacceptable, albeit ANOTHER failed attempt on your part to make your case.
Keep up the postings. The rotary mower industry loves the good publicity you're providing!
