Now for you guys that are talking about a 6’ . Does it matter if the cutter is not as wide as the tractor?
I have many 1000s of hours experience running rotary cutters of various types, sizes and brands. I have one of the largest Kubota dealers in the country near me and asked them recently why they sold so many types and brands and sizes of rotaries and no flail mowers. He looked at me like I was nuts and said because they can't compete and they are in the business of making money.
You say you don't demonize rotary cutters, but you do! Over and over throughout the years on this forum you do. You always say you want these people to succeed but you constantly give bad or/and misleading advice. I think you must have pictures of flail mowers hanging in every room of your house, lol.
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You have your own bias, which comes through loud and clear. Simply repeating something and screaming at people doesn't make your opinions into facts.
I've used a 6' RC and a 6' flail mower on the same property, for the same tasks, for roughly 4 1/2 years each. The flail mower did all the mowing I wanted for tall grass, tall weeds, and woody brush up to about 1" diameter. It did not require more HP than the RC in my actual use. There was no difference in forward speed in my actual use, because ground roughness (and the areas were smooth by farm standards) limited my forward speed before any mowing issue did.
For my use on that farm, what did the RC do better for me? Nothing.
What did the flail do better for me? Several things:
-it cuts along a line and it doesn't stick out as much, so while mowing inside of fenced pastures I can turn closer to a corner without the mower swinging wide and hitting the fence.
-likewise I can back into corners to get the last few feet, and get it completely, because it cuts a line instead of a circular arc.
-it mulches the cut material, which the RC doesn't do. Even with 3' tall grass/weeds I didn't have dead or matted vegetation underneath, the cuttings fell to the soil within a few days and decomposed.
-it doesn't spit rocks any great distance. Yeah, it can still throw a rock 10-20 yards (which happened one single time over 4 1/2 years), but I saw my RC throw a baseball sized rock about 75 yards. I always kept people away from mowing, but a 75 yard danger distance means it's a hazard to mow roughly half that property (house and barn near the center in both axes). A rock that size thrown by the RC will not only go through glass but will break vinyl siding and severely dent steel siding. It may not happen often, but it's a greater danger than with the flail.
leonz, what is your profession? Seems like I read you were in accounting? Are the tractors listed all you own?
Me, I have extensive mechanical training and, as I type this, am sitting on a one billion dollar steel island in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Africa that I cam in total charge of. There is over a 100,000 HP machines spinning 24/7 just outside that cost many millions. I live in the country and have all my live. I have many 1000s of hours experience running rotary cutters of various types, sizes and brands. I have one of the largest Kubota dealers in the country near me and asked them recently why they sold so many types and brands and sizes of rotaries and no flail mowers. He looked at me like I was nuts and said because they can't compete and they are in the business of making money.
You say you don't demonize rotary cutters, but you do! Over and over throughout the years on this forum you do. You always say you want these people to succeed but you constantly give bad or/and misleading advice. I think you must have pictures of flail mowers hanging in every room of your house, lol.
I️ am not in the oil and gas drilling business I️ am on the production and processing oil and gas business. Where does red loctite fit in the context of this conversation?