Flail Mower Older Mott of 2009 Land Pride FM2072

[Howie3]

Pulled up spec sheet on the Land Pride, It has 4 rows but it has half as many knives. I usually enjoy the hunt but I'm getting tired of it. Does anyone know where a good one is sitting for sale.

 

[leonz]

Thanks leonz, that is what I needed to know. I thought maybe there were more knives on the Mott. What kind of flail do you have? I assume with 4 rows vs 2 rows it will require more hp?

The horse power argument has been around for years,
be more concerned with your tractors lifting ability.

You use the same amount of power to rotate 2 Rows of side slicer knives
as you would four rows due to the speed reduction on the V belts and pulleys.


A flail mower is belt driven with one to one gear box transmitting 540 RPM
to the first SMALLER driven V belt pulley which transmits power to the
second LARGER pulley which spins the VERY SMALL flail rotor shaft on these new
flail mowers.(which I am not happy with as a larger in diameter flail mower rotor
would permit you to have smaller knives instead of the longer side slicers.

The Mott Mowers overcame this issue by using four rows of the longer side slicers to
give the user a better more consistant cut quality with double the knives and smaller
grass and brush clippings

If you have five PTO horsepower or less per foot you should be fine.

I have a motorised 4 foot finish flail mower using a collection basket with the following:
16 horse power Briggs and Stratton gas engine for belt drive power
four row finish flail mower rotor
16 mounting stations per row
32 side slicer knives per row
128 side slicer grass knives
64 dethatching blades

AS I mentioned "Tractor House" has a herd of flail mowers for sale in every issue and some new unused inventory as well.


You will not go wrong with the Mott Mower; It may need a bit of work but the parts are available
the forum members will gladly help you with any issues that you are concerned with just as Flail Master will.

My Mathews Lawn Genie Pickup Mower is 30 plus years old and still mows very well and I can still parts as they are generic. I do not like the new knives as they are not tapered(the cutting edge lasts longer) but I will have to see how well they perform.

 

[Howie3]

Thanks again Leonz
I think I found what I've been looking for. I did also find that with the older Motts there are 2 different types. They both have 4 rows but on the rough cut the knives are short and the fine cut knives are long. On the coarse cut there are 36 stations or 72 knives on the fine there are 92 stations or 184 knives. (6' mower). That seems like a huge difference for the same width mower.

 

[leonz]

Thanks again Leonz I think I found what I've been looking for.

I did also find that with the older Motts there are 2 different types.

They both have 4 rows but on the rough cut the knives are short and
the fine cut knives are long.

On the coarse cut there are 36 stations or 72 knives on the fine there are
92 stations or 184 knives(6' mower).

That seems like a huge difference for the same width mower.

It all depends on the quality of cut one wants and the fact that the more you keep the
brush knocked down the better the sod would be if you have heavy brush loads to mow.

They also made very good flail mowers, I wish that they had made mowers
like mine with the larger diameter rotor which would have made a huge
difference in mowing as the flail mower rotors would have used the
short three inch knives without the bolted D ring hangers.

The more side slicer pairs (Y blades) you have the finer the cut and if
you are mowing brush it will really knock it down and shred it.


The thing about having a high knive count is it also allows you to mow with out
having to deal with long clippings as the flail mower would be shredding all the
clippings to small lengths which eliminates dead spots on the lawns from clippings
left on the grass.:cool2: