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I'd be more concerned with wires under the tractor than the mowing, which looks like it came out great.
My Mott 88" with grass knives takes all the 40 hp my tractor has in thick grass. Does a nice job tho.
Jim
 
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Leon, that stand is not that big maybe 4 or 5 acres I also have an eliminator rake with scarifiers (spelling?) it is a bobcat implement and I can put it on the front in place of the bucket. I run it at ground level with the scarifiers below ground and the teeth on the rake are wide enough that it will pluck the small trees out. So I will run both at the same time and make adjustments from there. I also will get the right nuts and bolts. Blue Loctite intead of welding on, I will try this as it is not so permanent. Dave
 
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Thanks for the information. I am wondering if it would hurt the blades if I filled them in with weld. They all need work or would the heat ruin the old hammers. I guess at this point I may have nothing to lose. The local seppi dealer has new hammers at 29.00 each. Flail-Master has a loftness hammer that is close it measures .65 at the hole 4.68 inches across the blade with 1.63" across the top and 5 inches tall. The seppi measures 1 1/2 " across top 4 5/8ths blade width and the same for height and the hole looks to be 11/16. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Dave

11/16 is .6875. Flail Master hole may not be big enough ! I had same issue when I replaced knives on my Caroni. Since mine mount via nut/bolt I simply bought 88 nut/bolts locally. YMMV.

As I mentioned you could mail a hammer to Flail Master.

Oh yes my replacements were half the thickness of the original blades. That was a spec i failed to look at. However OEM replacements were $3 each and the Flail Master knives were $.62 each. So for the difference I'm all for more frequent replacement.
 
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drjay, Thanks for the info I was able to connect with cleancutter.com and they have what I need at 22.00 each plus shipping the other seppi dealer wanted 29.00 plus shipping and I think cleancutter is only 10.00 0n shipping and they spec out almost identical. Flailmaster only had the loftness hammers or I would have ordered them I believe they wanted 19.00 each which would save me an additional 72.00 but they won't work so I am going to go with cleancutter and I feel its a fair price. It will cost around 600.00 for the needed parts and will bring my investment to 1300.00 total for this flail mower. Still a fair price (Ifeel) for an 8 foot hydraulic offset seppi mower in good overall condition. Dave
 
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drjay, Thanks for the info I was able to connect with cleancutter.com and they have what I need at 22.00 each plus shipping the other seppi dealer wanted 29.00 plus shipping and I think cleancutter is only 10.00 0n shipping and they spec out almost identical. Flailmaster only had the loftness hammers or I would have ordered them I believe they wanted 19.00 each which would save me an additional 72.00 but they won't work so I am going to go with cleancutter and I feel its a fair price. It will cost around 600.00 for the needed parts and will bring my investment to 1300.00 total for this flail mower. Still a fair price (Ifeel) for an 8 foot hydraulic offset seppi mower in good overall condition. Dave

Welcome to the flail community. I don't believe you will ever regret the move.
 
 

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