Thank you for the information and the pictures. A picture is worth 1000 words.
I didn't know about fine vs. coarse knives. Thank you for that tidbit. Dust is one of my main concerns, so it is good to hear that this is a low-dust thing. Here, dust means I'm losing top soil, and I have so little already. The high plains of Colorado is essentially desert. We're in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, and Pacific moisture has a hard time getting over the peaks.
I don't think I'll have problems with cutters clogging, as most of the stuff we have here is so dry. I know what you mean about clogging, though. When I lived in the Dallas suburbs, I bought a 5HP mower that was only 20" wide. The grass got so thick in the spring rains, it used to bog out my old, smaller (3.5hp?), wider mower.
Some of the things that have given me pause on the sickle bar mower are finger hazards and keeping the cutting edges in reasonable condition. It probably is just that I haven't done it, but it seems like a hassle to replace cutting teeth on a sickle bar. Riveting and un-riveting teeth seems time consuming, though I don't expect to have to do it very often. I can readily see where replacing the flails on a flail mower is rather simple. The flails even appear to be sharpened on both sides, so you can reverse them when they get dull or whatever. And the flails seem to be inexpensive. They sell for $10 or $15 on ebay for a 10 pack.
And it appears as if I can adjust the height of the flail mower pretty high. I could probably engineer something to mow even higher. I want to take down the tall grass which is the real prairie fire hazard, yet keep the little leaf-ear cactus which is about 6 or 8 inches high. Either way, this has got to be better than my 20" walk behind mower for mowing open prairie. :-)
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