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Topic: Reel Mower?

Posted By: AJ
Subject: Reel Mower?
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 5:35pm

Just curious if any of you guys use or have used a gang of reel mowers for large area yard. Not sure I trust the idea but if they reliable and cut good I thought about getting one. Having a tough time finding the belly mower I want. This mower I found can be pulled behind any tractor. It hooks just like a trailer. Just thought there can't be much that can go wrong with them. Any opinions?

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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 5:54pm

They work great if kept sharp and the grass is kept short. sharpening them is probably perty much a lost art though. JMO

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Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 6:29pm

I pulled one of those all the summer of 1956 up and down the Ohio Turn Pike. Never had a problem with the gang mower not cutting well. They were new as that was the year they opened the Ohio Turn Pike to the Indiana Line. I mowed from East side of the bridge just East of the Wauseon Ohio Fair grounds to the Indiana line. I just worked there that summer so wouldn't know how long they lasted.

Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 6:30pm

Tuck's right on all three counts !! You MUST cut often and keep them SHARP. Do that and you'll have a lawn the golfers will be envious for !!

The problem is you'll get busy 'grass cutting day', next day it rains, you forget next day...NOW the grass is twice as tall as it should be to cut ! When you do cut it, well it's clumpy cause it wasn't DRY when you cut it,looks a mess and oh yeah they NEED to be sharpened every month, NO exceptions.....WITH the proper tools !!

Jay

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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 7:13pm

Make sure you get a fairway mower, not a greens mower. Bigger the reel is in diameter, the better the cut, in tall grass. You also don't want to let the grass get ahead of your mowing ability, they don't do well in tall grass, or rough areas. Also have to mow dry, or the drive wheels will slip in frost, or dew. Used to use, and sharpen them, on the turf farm, I usedta work at. Batwing finish mowers was the death of them. too many moving parts, and tricky adjustments, for the minimum wage workers that was runnin them...

Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 7:30pm

I've used one for a couple years, if you don't let the grass get tall they work great, and the dryer the grass the better they cut...find a rock or a wrench and you'll leave a strip! and take the greaseless earings off and replace with greasable bearings!

Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2016 at 7:31pm

there are also power reel mowers out there and they work good too, they can cut taller grass than the pull/ground driven ones can.