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Post by Foggy on Jun 20, 2019 10:47:04 GMT -6
I called this place to get a price on the Flail Mower Shown. It's a 7' wide with the side shift hydraulics.....and is rated up to 3" brush according to the sales guy.....but that seems a bit much IMO. Anyway.....the price was MSRP $8625 and they would sell it for $6625. Still.....waaaay more than I want to spend. According to the guys at TBN....the Woodmaxx is the current good buy out there.....and with hydraulic side shift you can buy one for about $2900 and "free" shipping. I get tempted to do one of these so I can reach out along my trails and not tear up my tractor......as well as other issues......like a nice mulched cut.....not so much scalping, etc. Just seems like too much stuff going on at one time for me now. I think this Seppi M is a good brand.....but they do get paid for them. I think Seppi is big in forestry mulching biz....and high end units for skid steers....etc. I've reached him! It took a few years, but I am adding this merit badge to my habitat jacket. I've earned it. Leaf Blower Gypsum Chain saw planting Stabbin' Cabin Pro-pain Solar Barley and now... Flail mower
I have "lusted" for a flail mower for a looong time. Just never could rationalize their expense.....expecially when my land needed to be "broken". I have owned mostly disposable implements over the past ten years.....as the timber and clearing is hard on stuff. My tiller is beat, my rotary cutter is beat, my stump grinder is beat, my field cultivator is an old Dearborn unit, and my landscape rake is an old ford industrial unit. I now have a somewhat better rotary cutter.....but even that has had a few incidents with timber. I try to take good care of my power unit (tractor) but the implements lead a rough life around my place to date. Now that most of the stumps are gone and the rocks have been found......I may get a better flail mower at some point. But there are good brands out there for better prices. ^I dont know what your "chain saw planting" refers to.....and I am a bit afraid to ask.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 20, 2019 10:49:46 GMT -6
Look at this one? I am dead set about not having a wheeler and tractor simply because I don't have space for them and a tractor would never carry on my mud. But holy nuts does this thing leave your duff nearly vaporized and evenly distributed. ^ That is a good brand of equipment from my reading. I think that Iowa Equipment has those. (do a google on Iowa Farm Equipment - they may have an ATV unit too). I would not worry about driving over the stuff your going to cut. The flail will do a fine job following the wheeler. No problem with that. Tractors do it all the time.
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 20, 2019 13:46:23 GMT -6
I still think a Swisher rough cut will do what you need and more.
It starts at $5900. You can get an ATV and a rough cut for less than that. Plus you need the tractor too. Overkill.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 20, 2019 14:09:11 GMT -6
Those flail mowers look awesome and if money is no concern they would be a great addition. I just don't know if they'll really help a person kill more deer over a swisher rough cut. I don't think the deer care too much if the clippings are perfectly evenly distributed or clumped up on the side!
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 20, 2019 15:27:12 GMT -6
I've reached him! It took a few years, but I am adding this merit badge to my habitat jacket. I've earned it. Leaf Blower Gypsum Chain saw planting Stabbin' Cabin Pro-pain Solar Barley and now... Flail mower
I have "lusted" for a flail mower for a looong time. Just never could rationalize their expense.....expecially when my land needed to be "broken". I have owned mostly disposable implements over the past ten years.....as the timber and clearing is hard on stuff. My tiller is beat, my rotary cutter is beat, my stump grinder is beat, my field cultivator is an old Dearborn unit, and my landscape rake is an old ford industrial unit. I now have a somewhat better rotary cutter.....but even that has had a few incidents with timber. I try to take good care of my power unit (tractor) but the implements lead a rough life around my place to date. Now that most of the stumps are gone and the rocks have been found......I may get a better flail mower at some point. But there are good brands out there for better prices. ^I dont know what your "chain saw planting" refers to.....and I am a bit afraid to ask. Dear Foggy, I am also 100% team flail. However, I cannot use the word 'lusted' when describing my interest in a piece of machinery. Chain saw planting is a highly complex method of silvicultural manipulation on the landscape.
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Post by batman on Jun 20, 2019 15:38:01 GMT -6
Just sold an Arctic Cat 90cc for $800. Should have called Skoog first. Kick started on 2nd try.
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Post by Catscratch on Jun 20, 2019 20:31:13 GMT -6
So... the original intent of the post... What was decided on mileage or hours for a dependable used 4 wheeler? Used is no good for anything but a Honda shaft drive?
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 20, 2019 21:18:48 GMT -6
Yammie or Honda. Anything else.... pffft.
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Post by Tooln on Jun 20, 2019 21:49:17 GMT -6
Yammie or Honda. Anything else.... pffft. Cat's also get a vote in my book.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 20, 2019 21:57:05 GMT -6
So... the original intent of the post... What was decided on mileage or hours for a dependable used 4 wheeler? Used is no good for anything but a Honda shaft drive? With the high prices for used Hondas, I'd just get a $5500 new one versus a $3000 one that is 10 years old if there was any way to swing it in the budget. But even batman's $800 90cc atv beats the hell out of walking and carrying stuff by hand-
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Post by Catscratch on Jun 20, 2019 22:00:01 GMT -6
So... the original intent of the post... What was decided on mileage or hours for a dependable used 4 wheeler? Used is no good for anything but a Honda shaft drive? With the high prices for used Hondas, I'd just get a $5500 new one versus a $3000 one that is 10 years old if there was any way to swing it in the budget. But even batman's $800 90cc atv beats the hell out of walking and carrying stuff by hand- I do a lot of walking and carrying by hand. I don't it too much now, but could see it getting old in the future!
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 20, 2019 22:07:57 GMT -6
I get so much more random stuff done here at my house since I bought my atv versus before. but even a 25 year old atv can haul a trailer around and make life easier. It just is damn hard to look at a used atv and determine if you will get a decade of use out of it or if it will shit the bed next week.
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 20, 2019 22:28:17 GMT -6
Look at this one? I am dead set about not having a wheeler and tractor simply because I don't have space for them and a tractor would never carry on my mud. But holy nuts does this thing leave your duff nearly vaporized and evenly distributed. ^ That is a good brand of equipment from my reading. I think that Iowa Equipment has those. (do a google on Iowa Farm Equipment - they may have an ATV unit too). I would not worry about driving over the stuff your going to cut. The flail will do a fine job following the wheeler. No problem with that. Tractors do it all the time. Check this one out. I would like to be able to grow something this tall and thick someday, even if it's horsetail and curly dock. The times I've seen throw and mow done at the right time and with the right stuff, the results have been fantastic. I had half considered planting sudan grass for while, but I'm not ready to give up on the other stuff yet.
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Post by Tooln on Jun 20, 2019 23:14:13 GMT -6
A real 🚜 doing the job.
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Post by batman on Jun 21, 2019 6:13:04 GMT -6
I run a 1940's Farmall M. Its my second one. Paid $800 for each of them. Attachments are about $200. Shit was built to last. I would never subject any of the 4 wheelers I have owned to the work a tractor does, but I have never owned a Honda. Maybe they can take it. When your a dumbass and get it stuck you grab the farm jack, lift the machine and dump logs and shit under the tires until it dries up. Then you drive away.
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