MX series cutters were the gold standard for rotary cutters. Well, the HX/CX Series were pretty decent too if you had enough tractor.
I didn’t bump into any. If there were, they could have. Even contained to a certain range or serial numbers too. We sold dozens of them in my time with the dealership and never had a problem with any of them.
Well I bought a Woods BB 72 today. The salesman and I were looking at his inventory yesterday to see what he had avaible. No Land Prides, but had a Woods. As we were looking it over, he said "Wait, I have a used one that has never been used. A guy bought a tractor and a bunch of implements, then traded some of them in on a UTV." Sure enough, never used-I don't think it had even been hooked to a tractor. Saved $600 from the new price. Even got a new hat. Cost me $30,000 less the last hat (when I bought the tractor and finish mower.)
I had a chance to use it yesterday. Works well, I was mowing a 3' high field at 3mph or so, same speed I normally go. RPM at the PTO stayed at 540. You definitely know you have something behind you, but no problem turning uphill, etc. Thanks for all the advice.
I have same one Woods 72 Heavy duty. 2 blades are about 65 pounds apiece 2 wet to use it yet.. Brush hog would work... tractor would sink!!
I hear you about being wet! Was able to cut the fields at my brothers place where I hunt (one of them is in my avatar) but the back field of my property has standing water and is so wet I sink in when I walk across! Hope it dries sometime this year.
might wanna watch if its heavy built and not carry it around allot at travel speeds. I have a 6' on my TC40 and when i purchased it i wanted to buy the heavy duty version and the salesman told me not to....they were having issues with a few guys bending the 3pt arms from the weight bouncing around. info may not apply depending on how heavy built your brush hog is....the one i ended up with is a little over 1000lbs for the 6' but the one i wanted was closer to 1500 pounds.
Thanks for the tip. This one is around 800 lbs. No way was I considering the next model up. I believe that was 12-1300 lbs. Don't need that capacity. This one is much beefier than the one I used successfully for 10 years with my smaller tractor.
I am rough on a brush hog....if the tractor can push it over i expect the brush hog to chew it up so that means anything up to about 3" diameter gets shredded. tore up the gear box on 2 cheapy ones so when i went to buy a new one i wanted something indestructible. ended up with the bush hog one, it has a massive gear box on it rated for something like 150hp
Yup, my 6’ is a Bush Hog 406 with a gear box over 100hp. A key feature for me is to be able to back into things and knock them over, or back into bushel-basket sized rocks and push them out of the way. I think it is is the 1500 lb range - I use it as a counterweight when unloading pallets of fertilizer.
same here....thats the heaviest 3pt attachment i have so anytime i am doing serious loader work, especially on uneven ground i hook up to it. I have the *ssend of my brush hog all bent up from pushing trees over. my only regret is i let the salesman talk me into the sheer bolt style instead of slipper clutch. He convinced me that a slipper was more work than it was worth because of having to loosen the bolts up to let the clutch slip periodically because they would rust/freeze solid and not slip when needed so i ended up with a sheer bolt style. 1/2" bolts get expensive fast. i can easily go thru a box of 25 per brush hog session.
