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The teeth or flail blades, also called knives, are short pieces of metal attached to an axle that turns rapidly, cutting grass and other plants.
Berta flail mower for walk-behind tractor-Setup, features \u0026 basic maintenanceĪ flail mower does not throw grass instead it cuts grass finely, almost pulverizing it, and leaves the cuttings on the ground. But even then you won't be able to reach as much ground beneath the trees as I can with the BCS regardless of the steep terrain factor.Flail mowers are useful for tough jobs, such as cutting grass on uneven ground, cutting high grass, weeds and even brush or mowing in areas that have debris and rocks.
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Bottom line: Long straight rows on relatively flat ground where unending markets abide - meaning you can grow more than several acres of tree fruit - lend to the upgrade to tractor mowing. It took some time to achieve all this but it's a happy place to be for what all I do. The BCS suits this ground and that scale well, especially as we have multiple gardens and cover crop extensively which is where the flail attachment truly shines. I do have a 48 inch brush hog, hardly used, which I've decided to sell this spring. The flail mower attachment is the same width as well, a choice necessitated by the overall weight of the machine on terrain.
What keeps things humming is the venerable BCS, and I am using a 26" brush mower. If you don't mind me asking, how much acreage are you mowing with it?ĭo you mow with your 4 wheel tractor at all? Granite outcroppings make tractor mowing here nigh impossible, and parts of the orchard are too steep to want to try offset mowing. I didn't realize you still use your BCS to mow. Thanks Michael, I'm trying real hard not to screw this tractor decision up. I totally agree that a side-mounted cutter bar is the right choice for spring mowing.īottom line: Take into account slope and acreage scale and additional purposes to determine the right fit for your farm whatever the piece of equipment. That BCS flail attachment, for instance, is worth its weight in gold in the gardens for reducing a living cover crop to small bits without disturbing fungi and roots.
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The nice thing about the two-wheel tractor approach is nearly full access under a larger tree canopy.
I do have an Italian-made flail attachment for the BCS as well, which is incredibly slick for chopping leaves but a bit cumbersome on the steeper sections of orchard slope. I use the the brush mower attachment on my BCS for fall clean-up as that indeed reduces vole cover satisfactorily. Tree size figures into this in a big way obviously.
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That actually pushes you towards what's called a flail chopper, which would be overkill in smaller orchards, plus it's ideal to shoot chips into the fungal duff zone. The two factors in favor of a flail mower that stand out to me are "offset access" beneath limbs on bigger trees which you are not going to achieve with a brush hog and heavy duty ability to chop substantial prunings in the aisle way. Wolf copper ammoĪre the orchard benefits reduced vole habitat with a finer cut, chopping leaves for scab abatement, chopping prunings in place worth running a flail mower over a more general purpose brush hog? Reply Quote.
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