Re: Flail mover vs brush hog

Posted by Gene Davis (Ga.) on July 18, 2005 at 18:18:47 from (66.82.9.22):

In Reply to: Flail mover vs brush hog posted by chris sweetland on July 18, 2005 at 15:13:44:

I have been using a Mott flail type mower for about 20 years now. They are for producing a nicer finished type cut than most bush hog types are. They are much better than the bush hog type rotary mower for my likes. But that is only my opinion, everybody has their own opinion. I took the liberty of comparing the bush hog type to the flail mower and on my John Deere 650 compact diesel tractor. The bush hog type was given to throwing objects around the yard and required mowing in 2nd or 3rd gear. With the flail mower io could mow in 3rd or 4th gear. The flail type does not throw stuff, it drops it right behind the mowere where it has just passed and with a 1/8" thick rubber belting curtain on the rear, it just leaves everything in a row where it was cut.If you hit a beer bottle in the weeds, it simply becomes a pile of shredded bottle glass. The key to a good flail mower cut is to have the blade drum turning about 2,200-2,300 rpm. I put castering gauge wheels on the front of my Mott flail mower to keep down the scalping and to be able to set a constant height. It rides on the front caster wheels, and the rear is supported by the full width roller. I also lengthened the hitch point by 7" to give it a longer wheel base and then I made a floating coupling point for the top link at the mower. When I am cutting, I keep my top link adjusted so that it constantly flexes with the terrain. The mower is lowered to the ground and it is actually riding on the roller and front caster wheels and floats with the terrain. it will follow the ground nicely this way. It turns relatively easy unless it is a very sharp I don"t lift it up. The worst thing about a flail mower is the price of the blades. They are more expensive to buy. I have used my blades for over 10 years, occasionally reversing them and sharpening them. There is a place in Tn. called Flailmaster that sells a lot of different parts for flail mowers. Alamo has bought up the Mott Mower Co.and mostly sells to government and municipalities. In a summary statememt I would say that you either like or hate flail mowers.

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