Rotary Cutter Very used rotary mower, questions

[Rmart30]

If the gearbox is free and has some semblance of lube in it and the blade bar/stump jumper is intact I’d be all over it for $75 .

As would I. We buy them fairly regularly for our hunting lease and usually have 2 or 3 sitting around for members to hook too. Its somewhere rocky and with stumps so not somewhere I want to put my $3k + land pride. Lot of members will bring their tractor but not their good cutter.
If we get one, or especially 2 yrs out of one for under $300 we dont complain. We put it off to the side for parts or scrap it.

 

[LD48750]

If the gearbox is free and has some semblance of lube in it and the blade bar/stump jumper is intact I壇 be all over it for $75 .

I agree, it looks to me like it has been USED hard a time or two but survived.
Only real damage I see is where the blade hit the deck & that doesn't really affect function.
It only takes one time hitting a rock, cement block, tree during real use to crease a deck like that.
If the blades don't hit the deck now, I wouldn't worry about it.
For $75 you are buying function not looks.

BTW... My rotary cutter looks worse then that & still works fine.

 

[aczlan]

I agree, it looks to me like it has been USED hard a time or two but survived.
Only real damage I see is where the blade hit the deck & that doesn't really affect function.
It only takes one time hitting a rock, cement block, tree during real use to crease a deck like that.
If the blades don't hit the deck now, I wouldn't worry about it.
For $75 you are buying function not looks.

BTW... My rotary cutter looks worse then that & still works fine.

Yep, for $75 it would have already been on my trailer. BTDT, ended up putting new sides on a $75 mower (the deck was rusted through), the one pictured, I would beat the top down with some wood blocks under it, then weld it shut and call it good.

Aaron Z

 

[countrybumpkin]

Yep, for $75 it would have already been on my trailer. BTDT, ended up putting new sides on a $75 mower (the deck was rusted through), the one pictured, I would beat the top down with some wood blocks under it, then weld it shut and call it good.

Aaron Z

I would do the same thing.

 

[Fallon]

This thread reminds me of the thoughts of member 'farmwithjunk'. Looking at his profile I see he hasn't posted for 5 years. I hope he's ok. He posted often about restoring old equipment for use in his commercial hay mowing business.

Last I heard he had wandered off to some other forums & maybe retired.

 

[MESSMAKER]

Last I heard he had wandered off to some other forums & maybe retired.

I don't think it has been 5 years, but maybe. I thought he had some health problems that he explained on a post and then I never heard from him again.

 

[countrybumpkin]

April 1 2013 was his last log in.

 

[Stubee]

Looks worse than this 6’ hog I brokered a deal for up in Ontario. A friend there bushhogs shooting lanes and bought a new one after beating this one up pretty good. Neighbor by my camp was interested and since they could never link up I took the $75?cash down to the owner, and the neighbor finally picked it up. He said it was quite a bit heavier than he figured on his smallest tractor but got it home and runs it. He’s a logger & raises beef cattle, and wasn’t too familiar with these little contraptions.

The OP hog was in a lot tougher shape than this deal.

 

[4570Man]

I’d buy every $75 cutter that the blades still turned on that I could pile on my 10 ton gooseneck and make a second trip. People think they’re gold around here and it’s pretty much $200 minimum for a similar piece of crap. My grandpa has one that looks that bad and he’s used it for as long as I can remember. He bought a better one a few years ago but never retired the other one.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

For $75 I would pounce on that. Clean it off, change gear box oil, service pto shaft as needed. Sharpen blades and use it in the rough parts of our pastures.

Use the nicer brush hog for the long grass and other that we can pickup for our small livestock. Very worth the effort to change implements for the different jobs.