who makes JD rotory cutters. Looking to buy one

[Victor23]

I am thinking about buying a new 4120 JD. The rotory cutters are kind of expensive at the dealer. I was at TSC and they had 6' cutters for about $700 and more for the heavy duty.

Any advice on after market implements? Keep in mind that I would like to use the JD quick connect feature.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

JD cutters are made by a company called John Deere & Co. at their Welland Works, in Ontario Canada. MX Series cutters are all in house, LX cutters use a JD designed gearbox that is made elsewhere.

The JD cutters do cost more, but include safety shields and a slip clutch which are extra cost on most others. Add those and compare quality, and suddenly the TSC stuff isn't such a great deal.

The 4120 really needs the slip clutch, you will break shear bolts faster than you can replace them. You really want the safety chains. The cutter can kill you throwing rocks and spears at you.

Finally, Deere usually has great incentives to add a cutter to the tractor, so you can often save some that way.

Of course, you will be most certain that the green one will work with your iMatch.

I couldn't be happier with the performance of my MX6. They cut like crazy, are fast and very clean. I have even had to use mine as a finish mower with better than expected results.

 

[timb]

So Mike, quite beating around the bush. Do you like the MX6 mowers or not?

 

[rockyridgefarm]

You may have guessed that I do!

Adding the options to a bargain cutter might be enough cheaper to make them viable. Just try and compare apples to apples!

And be safe!

 

[HillbillyFarmer]

JD cutters are made by a company called John Deere & Co. at their Welland Works, in Ontario Canada. MX Series cutters are all in house, LX cutters use a JD designed gearbox that is made elsewhere.

The JD cutters do cost more, but include safety shields and a slip clutch which are extra cost on most others. Add those and compare quality, and suddenly the TSC stuff isn't such a great deal.

The 4120 really needs the slip clutch, you will break shear bolts faster than you can replace them. You really want the safety chains. The cutter can kill you throwing rocks and spears at you.

Finally, Deere usually has great incentives to add a cutter to the tractor, so you can often save some that way.

Of course, you will be most certain that the green one will work with your iMatch.

I couldn't be happier with the performance of my MX6. They cut like crazy, are fast and very clean. I have even had to use mine as a finish mower with better than expected results.

I totally agree with RockyRidge. I call my MX6 the green monster. It is an absolute beast that will devour any organic object I have the balz to run over or accidently run over with the tractor (JD5205). . . it even chops up and throws rocks around fairly well. It's amazing the things I've chopped up and never sheared a pin yet (I've had it about a year now).
People around these parts have quite a few different types of bush hogs and none are built as sturdy as my MX6.

 

[unreconstructed]

I name all my pieces of JD equipment--mostly from the characters in Lonesome Dove--I have Gus, Newt and Woodrow and hope to buy Deets this year. I have two MX-6s on places 300 miles apart--had to deviate from Lonesome Dove--One is Tarzan and the other is Hulk. These suckers will devour anything.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

I had a stand of saplings that I needed rid of. They were mostly about 12' tall, and all together in a huge bunch. Probably 40' square for the lot. I drove the MX over them and boy did it cut. I looked behind it to see all the rubble. There wasn't any. I thin k it vaporized those trees....

 

[HillbillyFarmer]

I had a stand of saplings that I needed rid of. They were mostly about 12' tall, and all together in a huge bunch. Probably 40' square for the lot. I drove the MX over them and boy did it cut. I looked behind it to see all the rubble. There wasn't any. I thin k it vaporized those trees....

HA! Same experience Mike. I cleared a pasture that hadn't been mowed in years. Tore up some cedars and scrub pines that were ridiculously large and a patch of saplings like you described. What's also really cool is plowing through large stands of rasberry briars and huge multiflora rose bushes.
Then grass grows where there was none!

 

[Neophyte]

How will you be using your rotary cutter? How many acres will you be mowing and how often?

 

[caustik]

Just a heads up..

As of about a month ago all the LX cutters are now built by Frontier Equipment.

All the MX/HX/CX's are still made here in Welland at a true Deere and Co. factory

Caustik