biffo
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Have used my flail for the first time in the last few days and have had to run over maybe 50-70 mole hills, some of them are pretty high (for mole hills) at about 8-10".
I checked over the mower before using it yesterday and noticed that the flails had cut deep grooves into the soil that has stuck to the under side of the rotor box. I cleaned the box out and saw the soil was about 1/14 - 1/1/2" thick. It occurred to me that the resistance for the flails to pass through this soil must be immense and can't do the knives or rotor bearings too much good. Also consumes power from the tractor too.
Is this a common problem when using a flail and does it matter? Am I making too much of this?
Later I drove over some newly formed slopes, the flail just scalped them (same soil) a few times with each run, but didn't leave any soil attached to the underside. Following that I ran over maybe another 10 mole hills and sure enough the underside had 1/2" of soil stuck to it!
Any opinions out there?
Thanks
I checked over the mower before using it yesterday and noticed that the flails had cut deep grooves into the soil that has stuck to the under side of the rotor box. I cleaned the box out and saw the soil was about 1/14 - 1/1/2" thick. It occurred to me that the resistance for the flails to pass through this soil must be immense and can't do the knives or rotor bearings too much good. Also consumes power from the tractor too.
Is this a common problem when using a flail and does it matter? Am I making too much of this?
Later I drove over some newly formed slopes, the flail just scalped them (same soil) a few times with each run, but didn't leave any soil attached to the underside. Following that I ran over maybe another 10 mole hills and sure enough the underside had 1/2" of soil stuck to it!
Any opinions out there?
Thanks