What's a flail mower?
Heavy-duty. The same heavy-duty cast hammer flails that you would find under a bigger flail topper (e.g. behind a tractor) but at only 127cms wide with a 110cm cutting width, it has accessibility and manoeuvrability benefits such as operating in tight spaces. It will cut and mulch weeds, brambles, nettles etc, even woody stems a couple of cm's thick.
Hammer flails
Heavy-duty agricultural topping
A traditional grass mower will have sharpened blades on a cylinder or horizontally rotating; perfect for a neat finish on lawns but not appropriate for uneven ground.
This has hinged sharpened hammer flails that cut vegetation, but hinge when they hit obstacles such as stumps, roots, rocks or uneven ground. The cuttings are double-cut (mulched) and returned to the soil as a natural fertiliser.
Narrow margins
Topping tight spaces, hedge & fence lines
Clean, tight margins around crops help harvesting. Weeds around the edges of crops can be mulched leaving a clean edge for a harvester to follow.
Tractor & toppers are often too wide for narrow margins, so the alternatives are strimming, spraying or leaving as they are which may impact yield and crop quality.
Banks & paths
4WD & low centre of gravity
Being close to the ground has some benefits. Up-close to the action affords a detailed view of what is being cut and avoid nesting birds etc.
Being small and light also means you can operate in tight spaces and on gradients in-accessible to larger, longer, taller machines.
Cost effective
It's got to work for you
Any work has got to be commercially viable. As a very rough guide, on straightforward crop margins the ride-on covers around 2km (1.3miles) per hour which equates to roughly 5 hours per hectare (2 hours per acre).
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