Mowing

I mow this field (and 3 other's like it at the same parcel) every year, it wants to be a pine forest, nothing but pine seedlings, little maples and beech among the brome grass.
Today it was 75* and the first day of rifle season. Last year there was a skiff of snow on it. Enough to accumulate on the mower deck!
It was gorgeous.

 

Wow, that's amazing. I'd love to build my dream home right there with those views. Bet it's beautiful just after a fresh snow.

 

It is a nice place to "work", even if it's only once a year. This picture is from the tractor seat on my westerly trip around this field.

 

This was the first time I've run this mower with new hammers.

It's a flail mulcher that I bought used last year. This is what the "hammers" look like.

These are some of the better ones that I saved after replacing them all. $32 each and there's 27 of them. It also needed new nuts and bolts.

The porta band and grinder with a cut off wheel were required. Many of the bolts required cutting on each side of the hammer to remove.
It worked well and did a better job than my rotary cutter. Both are 8'. This one can offset to the right about 2', that is handy along the edges and under limbs.

 

Nice setup! I had no idea the hammers were that much. It’s the Keurig business model apparently….

 

Beautiful view!

 

I'm hard on "blade's" .... or all the friggin rocks around here are! FAE calls this a "flail mulcher", they do offer a "knife" that's for much lighter material (cutting).

 

This interests me. We have a John Deere 390 offset flail mower but don’t use it much because we have a lot of stones where we mow & the knives just don’t seem to hold up well. I wonder how those hammer type knives would work on ours mower & possibly hold up better. Do they give a decent clean cut? Thanks.

 

Yes it makes a nice cut... for a field. I did hit the portions of our "yard" when there's actually grass was looking a little shabby, most of it is weeds and that's been dead for weeks. We're done mowing for the year here.

 

Thank you. Where did you purchase those hammer knives?

 

The FAE parts distributor for the North east is in Quebec. I don't know if my particular flail takes a specific knife or hammer. Being somewhat lazy I might have saved on the costs searching the web for an alternate. Needing the hardware I spent over $1400 on these *27 "hammers" but it is a $12,000+ mulcher (new) when I searched buying this one 2nd hand.
I can measure the dimensions of one fyi if it helps. They seem to be forged and the FAE emblem is embossed in each hammer.
* 3 rows - 9 hammers each