Flail Mowers ??????????????

I have a grass pasture and yard that I would be using it on. Have a 6 foot wide landscape mower (Woods, RM66) which work well on yard, but not to good in pasture. The grass is to high/thick. Would a flail mower work ok their? Exactely how does a flail mower work, anyway?

Thanks.....

One time when I was getting parts for my flail, the dealer showed me the knives that the DOT uses for their machines. They are cast iron hammers. The guy at the parts desk said that those flails can shred a wooden pallet (he saw it happen).

Flails can cut quite a bit. Depends on what you want.

In my humble opinion, only drawbacks to flails is that they are heavy, and a little more tedious to sharpen.

Around here (nw NJ) the state DOT uses only flails. Southern NJ is flat, there they use brush-hogs.

The main advantage I see is that the little L shaped flails (usually about three inches by one inch) can beat on a stump, rock, or woodchuck mound without it being the kind major event it is when a rotary mower hits one.

Flail mowers don't work too well on long grass, it tends to bog them down. For pasture clipping I like a sickle mower, although a big rotary mower like a Bush Hog works okay too. If your Woods mower doesn't work its probably a lack of horsepower rather than the mower.