mower/mulcher???

Need to touch up pastures after the horses are taken off to take out what they picked over and scatter poo a little alobg with any mole mounds that turn up now and then...

Have access to a heavy duty mulcher (flail mower with hammer knives??) but Murphy lives close by and I hate to borrow stuff and want to buy my own...
Options are : (3pt hitch) 5 or 6ft

Rotary mower (brushhog)
Flail mower with either Y or hammer knives
the drum mower I already have (just came to me as I'm typing this)

Would like the flailmower because it does a real neat job in one pass and takes up less storage space but costs about 500 bucks more than a rotary mower the same size (that already costs enough)...

Rotary mower would be OK, but not twinkle in my eye... Just leave some bucks free for other twinkles...

Just wondering now if my existing drum mower would serve the same purpose as a rotary mower... I know it wouldn't chew things up as good, but I already have it and replacement knives (takes 4) are 25 for 12 bucks and take a couple minutes to swap.....

Plus side (to an extent) with the drum mower is being able to cut roadsides and close to trees without catching the cab on branches...

minus side is maneuvering with the mower sticking so far to the side in tight spots and raking up some of the heavier stuff... and running the quad and harrow afterwards...

Whaddaya think???

The rotary mower would not spread the Poo much. The drum mower would just cut the material off and let it lay. A lot of guys here use a rotary mower and drag a harrow behind it as they mow to scatter the Poo piles.

(quoted from post at 06:46:10 05/08/12) The rotary mower would not spread the Poo much. The drum mower would just cut the material off and let it lay. A lot of guys here use a rotary mower and drag a harrow behind it as they mow to scatter the Poo piles.

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I won't be satisfied until I get a flail mower I'm sure..... Just ran across these that are only a couple hundred more than a tractor mounted one and 4ft. Just trying to find some feedback on them... This would let me groom every sq ft of the place where the tractor won't fit everywhere...
So far, all I find is made in china tho.... Already have the quad....