mower/mulcher?

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2011

Hey folks,
Thinking about buying this mower to dress up the pastures after the horses pick over them. Seems to be tuff (1/4" material), comes with PTO and a 2 year guarantee, delivery included. Anybody used anything like it? All in German, but there are several pics if you don't mind looking. Heaviest work is some volunteer fruit trees ad hedge (max 1/2" but mostly 1/4" or less) and weeds, manure, and mole hills. Should do the job?

Thanks, Dave

http://cgi.ebay.de/Mulcher-Schlegel...&otn=2&po=LVI&ps=63&clkid=6268730526043824169

IaGary · Jan 10, 2011

Dave,how many dollars in a Euro?

I have seen that style of mower here and they do a nice job of mowing.

Might chop up your straw nice as well.

Gary

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2011

(quoted from post at 06:20:04 01/10/11) Dave,how many dollars in a Euro?

I have seen that style of mower here and they do a nice job of mowing.

Might chop up your straw nice as well.

Gary

Think it's $1.32 to a euro now? Anyway, the price includes 19% sales tax that I won't have to pay. Would do a good job on the straw if I had room to use it :roll:

The straw thing was short lived.... We don't use much bedding except a dew days at foal time and I just ran across a good deal on bundles of dust free saw/planer dust delivered to the door. Loosely looking for a shredder but would get much more use out of the mulcher.

Dave

Russ from MN · Jan 10, 2011

Looks like a corn stalk chopper that we have, I can't see the width unless it's 1.55 meters? The gearbox looks small, but the Germans know how to build machinery. Ours works well for mowing trails, but stumps and rocks are hard on it, do you have any of those?

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2011

No stumps or rocks to speak of. Sounds like what I want then.

Thanks, Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2011

Hey Dave, Thought about an Amazone Grasshopper?

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:36:21 01/10/11) Hey Dave, Thought about an Amazone Grasshopper?

Oodles and boodles of money............... That's the one that puts everything in a hopper for you to dump on a compost pile isn't it?

JDseller · Jan 10, 2011

Dave that is a basic flail/shredder mower with cup knives. I think you would like the job it would do. The only draw backs to these type of mowers are: 1) If your grass gets thick and tall they will take horsepower to pull. 2) In coarse stemmed stuff that is tall they will bent them over and strip the leaves off but will leave the stem. The cupped knives will reduce that but the real wood stuff you might have to go over in opposite directions.

Advantages of these mowers: 1) they shred everything up into a small size and spread it evenly. They don"t clump stuff up like a rotary mower will. 2) They will suck up downed material very well. I have used a MC rotary scythe in downed hay. It just pulled real hard. 3) They gage the cutting height off of the rear roller. So if you just let it float on your hitch they follow the ground very well. 4) They will suck up the biger clumps of manure and shred/spread them too.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 11, 2011

(quoted from post at 22:44:58 01/10/11) 4) They will suck up the biger clumps of manure and shred/spread them too.

That's what impressed me the most (neighbor mulched a pasture for us once). There is always junk left behind after the horses finish that a harrow just don't completeky tahe care of.

Dave

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