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Scott B 
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 1:25pm |
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Anyone use one? What are the advantages/ disadvantages vs brush hog
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allis g
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 2:03pm |
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I use one doesn't throw the weeds everywhere but. don't think it cuts as good as a brush hog Seems like it shreds more than the hog. Have to go slower when mowing with my flail than the hog.
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DMiller
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 3:34pm |
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Tried both, settled on a 3008 Hog instead of a flail, move faster and I believe harder on saplings.
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john(MI)
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 5:08pm |
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Probably take a little less time to change blades on a brush hog! I've also heard horror stories on the flail mowers bending the main shaft and other imbalances that will shake your tractor apart.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 5:32pm |
I have a 48" woodmax flail mower that I occasionally hook up to one of the k'boters. You can use hammers (heavy cast iron blades) for brush, or regular style lightweight blades, for grass.
I use it in the fall to mow around the pond and brushy areas. Drawbacks are, that you need to drive slow, has a limited cut height, and the shoes drag up stuff cut on the prior pass. Good attributes are it leaves a nice appearance, if the grass wasn't real thick and tall. Also when it cuts saplings, it chips up the wood a little finer, and will chop off green saplings, in the spring.
As for a bush hog, its my go-to mower, rough cut, but knocks down brush and tall grass, about 3-4X faster, and time is money, as the old saying goes...  |
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farmboy520
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 10:24pm |
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We were using one for shredding corn stalks in the fall ahead of the chisel plow. I have also used it to mow grass. It does just as good a bush hog if not better for chewing up the grass. The problem you can have is it doesn’t conform to the ground like a batwing and can drag up previously mowed material.
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200Tom1
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 11:36pm |
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Up until last week I had a 9' Matthews Rotary Scythe. If you kept the paddles sharp it was as good as anything to cut hay. It would cut the hay in lengths of about 12". Roll that into big bales and it was easy to peal of a bunch and toss it into pens I feed it. Gopher mounds and ant hills never slowed you down. But times change and the machinery was sold last week
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Mactractor
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 3:10am |
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If you mow regularly and dont let the growth get too long, the flail mower is a good tool because it leaves the cut mulch spread evenly across the full width of the cut unlike hogs that tend to row it. Its all I use because of that better finish. With grass flails, 40hp handles 6 foot cut easily, even in heavier going. Hammer flails are for orchards after pruning to chop up the waste. Have been running it for a lot of years now and never bent the shaft. I figure you would have to do something pretty stupid to do that.
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