Really?

[Teachu2]

An add appeared on the side here for this disc mower, so I followed the link - and the "quality" mowing it showed looks awful. Krone North America - Special Offers

Makes a brush-hog look like a finish mower.

 

[1stDeuce]

A gentle FYI, a disc or drum mower is not a "mower" that you would use to make property pretty, as with a brush hogging or finish mowing. Drum and disc mowers are for cutting hay.

For this purpose, you want the "mowed" material to still be in one piece, not all chopped up, and ideally it should be as loose as possible, if not still be standing, so it dries quicker. After dring, it is gently raked into windrows, and then baled.

A little different function than the "mowers" most people think of...

 

[boggen]

adding to 1stdeuce. the disc mower = "single cut" a finishing mower deck even a rotary cutter (lamen terms bush hog), allows stuff to be cut up a couple times or more under the deck. the disc mower has no deck per say.

the disc mower is "long" and needs a wide open "field" while the disc mowers have some what of a ski per say. they do not take well to ditches and like.

most folks cutting there lawn around there homes need a "finishing mower deck" so all the grass gets chopped up enough, that the grass falls down pass the cut grass down to the soil to decay. a disc mower does not do this. farmers want there crop hay for example to stay on top, so it can be collected and baled.

 

[Teachu2]

Thanks, guys! Learn something new every day. Looks absolutely nothing like what is used to cut hay around here. OTOH, hay around here usually means alfalfa, and sometimes oat.

 

[boggen]

i have been tempted to buy a disc mower. instead of a rotary mower. just to cut down wider paths within the pasture were there be no trees (wide open areas), and not having to make as many paths to cut the larger areas down. then toss on rotary cutter to do the finish touch ups and rougher terrain.

if you got enough counter balance on tractor, and 3PH is good and strong enough to keep the disc mower held up. have seen folks toss the disc mower over edge of a pond, and mow the weeds down within the pond due to the disc mower really does extend out past one side of the tractor. have seen same thing down with creak banks, grass waterways and like. the issue is well the cut is not real nice, and everything stays on top of everything that is cut. and you might kill out some spots due to the cut stuff is acting more like a matting / sun block. granted, a rotary mower will tend to leave a windrow (bunch of clippings all put into a pile, in a row behind the mower as you go along) but *shrugs*

 

[CalG]

Here, (and elsewhere) a mower crimper/ conditioner is used for alfalfa. grass just wants a mower.