odd ball flail mower

[carpediem4570]

Greetings all:

I am having a problem finding flail mower blades for my flail mower.
Bought the mower used and can find no reference to the maker. After a little research, I discovered it is a TSC 145. It looks like they come out of Britain.

The knives are y blades, no chain, no d ring, attached by a bolt through the ears to the drum.

This unit is listed as light duty. Does anyone know where I can get blades for this thing and, can I replace the y b lades with hammer blades?

Your help is appreciated.

Kind regards,

Max

 

[Hoochy]

Try. Flail Master | Your BEST Choice for Quality Mower Parts

 

[carpediem4570]

Checked flail Master. No luck. \i am going to have to post a pick of the knives.

 

[CTWright]

My first flail was a 5' Vemco. I adapted JD side slicers quite well.

 

[TractorTech]

From the look of the blades on another website servicing the TSC145 in Europe, it appears the blades/rotor might be a Seppi, perhaps used by a British manufacturer.
Seppi was sold through Gearmore here in California. Here is a page on the rotor .
Also, in San Bernardino, Calif., is a blade supplier that sells Seppi among others. Phone number is on picture

 

[leonz]

Greetings all:

I am having a problem finding flail mower blades for my flail mower.
Bought the mower used and can find no reference to the maker. After a little research, I discovered it is a TSC 145. It looks like they come out of Britain.

This unit is listed as light duty. Does anyone know where I can get blades for this thing and, can I replace the Y blades with hammer blades?


Your help is appreciated.

Kind regards,

Max

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You have a Seppi flail mulcher made in Italy by the looks of it.
Your flail mowr has a "Flail Mower Rotor" not a drum.

You can buy both flail hammers from clean cutter as well as the side slicer knives for this mower.

 

[jemclimber]

For leonz

Can you explain the difference between the two? rotor or drum flail?

 

[Thomabear]

Try hard hitter for the knives. I just purchased a set of scoop knives from them. They are much more substantial than flail master and the price is also a little lower. Both cross back to my part number and the hard hitter knives are OEM quality while flail master knives are thinner and lighter.

 

[leonz]

For leonz

Can you explain the difference between the two? rotor or drum flail?

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It simply a case of the word drum being used mistakenly by some due to its appearance.

Since these small manufacturers have gotten completely away from building a
proper flail mower rotor that looks like a conveyor head pulley before they weld the
knive hangers.

Mine uses of shorter knife sets and they do nothing but waste your money
by making you purchase longer knife sets and reduce the ability of the knife to slice the grass evenly.

They save money by purchasing simple bar stock to make the flail rotors in use today GGRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With the knive sets completely held in place by the pin or bolt they do not allow the single knive or knive sets to become an air foil and mow flat across the sod, fortunately mine does and the lawn is always looking good.





Hope this helps

 

[ovrszd]

Leonz, maybe you can contact Wiki and correct them as well.

Flail mower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[carpediem4570]

Son of A..... I think you are right. it looks like my rotor and knives. Now what is the difference between the flail knives and the pruning knives. Can I cut heavier stock with the pruning knives? I bought the thing to use on brush, not grass. Have the feeling I have a light weight machine.

 

[ovrszd]

I don't consider a Flail type mower as an efficient choice for brush. Too many moving and fragile parts. Maintenance costs will be higher than a typical brush cutter type.

 

[Thomabear]

I don't consider a Flail type mower as an efficient choice for brush. Too many moving and fragile parts. Maintenance costs will be higher than a typical brush cutter type.

Actually that would depend on the type of flail mower. There are flail mowers out there that are much more capable than rotary mowers at tackling heavy brush and large trees. Then there are others that are more suited for lawn and small saplings.

 

[leonz]

The vineyard and orchard duty flail mowers have heavy cast hammers that are used to break up vineyard and orchard pruning's and are also used for heavy grass and brush mowing.

The hardened flail mower scoop knife available today also aids in shredding small twigs and pruning's.

 

[TractorTech]

Agree with Leonz. The pruning knife would be a cast hammer knife.