L3800 HST and Land Pride RCD18 . . .

[gpreuss]

I think you got a hell of a good deal on a mower that should give years of service taming, then maintaining your pasture. Wish I saw deals like that!

 

[BotaDriver]

I think you got a hell of a good deal on a mower that should give years of service taming, then maintaining your pasture. Wish I saw deals like that!

Yeah, that's a heck of a price. Even if he doesn't like it he could sell it and make money.

 

[Bulldog]

Nice looking mower.

This is about my normal luck, I only hear about good deal after they're gone.

 

[Who is John Galt]

Thanks for all the advice and input guys. I am looking forward to using it.

FWIW, the TractorByNet.com thread about Flail Mowers is huge. I have been reading it off and on and am only about 1/4 of the way through the 156 pages of posts. One thing that became pretty clear is that Rotary Cutters are pretty much an American (or North American) phenomenon . . that the ROW (rest-of-world) uses Flail Mowers. The other thing that became clear is that Flail Mowers are quickly becoming more popular among the CUT crowd . . guys like us. And that the Caroni 1900 is at the forefront. I spoke to a half dozen Caroni dealers in the eastern and southern USA and they cannot keep them in stock. Some of them attributed this surge in popularity and sales to the discussions over on TBN (the Flail Mower thread started in 2008 and is still going . . ).

The Flail Mower market in this country has historically been dominated by the expensive commercial units (Municipal Highway Departments and large landscaping companies) that are typically used for roadside and right-of-way maintenance. That seems to be changing.

 

[gpreuss]

Now, do you need help spending the $3K you just saved? A nice tiller? Grapple?

 

[Who is John Galt]

Now, do you need help spending the $3K you just saved? A nice tiller? Grapple?

Actually . . yes . .

I need a box blade, a rake, and a post hole digger.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Glad I help steer you down that road!
If for any reason you don't totally love it, I'll buy it off you in a second!

 

[Rodeo hunter]

In my experience to truly reclaim it. Mowing it isn't enough you really should plow it under in the fall then disk the crap out of it in the spring. Or at the minimum mow and then burn it out. Jmho but I've cleaned a ton of trashy crp grounds back into tillable or very nice alfalfa fields. It's tough work. Then after you disk it you could drill it in orchard or pasture mix and go halves with a local farmer who gladly bale on halves leaving you a clean cut and maintained field and a grand or two in round bales to sell. Most guys would even disk and drill the seed for maybe a year of 100% hay and 50/50 afterwards

 

[BotaDriver]

In my experience to truly reclaim it. Mowing it isn't enough you really should plow it under in the fall then disk the crap out of it in the spring. Or at the minimum mow and then burn it out. Jmho but I've cleaned a ton of trashy crp grounds back into tillable or very nice alfalfa fields. It's tough work. Then after you disk it you could drill it in orchard or pasture mix and go halves with a local farmer who gladly bale on halves leaving you a clean cut and maintained field and a grand or two in round bales to sell. Most guys would even disk and drill the seed for maybe a year of 100% hay and 50/50 afterwards

If only mowing would bring it back to its glory...... speaking of which, what would a semi truck full of wild onions fetch?

 

[Rodeo hunter]

If only mowing would bring it back to its glory...... speaking of which, what would a semi truck full of wild onions fetch?

???? Not following you? I do want a blooming onion from outback steakhouse now though.

 

[Who is John Galt]

???? Not following you? I do want a blooming onion from outback steakhouse now though.

mmmmmmmmm . .

Outback Steakhouse Blooming Onion . . .

That's not fair Rodeo hunter . .

 

[BotaDriver]

???? Not following you? I do want a blooming onion from outback steakhouse now though.

Follow them on facebook, they usually have a race driver that wins on the weekends yielding free onions on Monday. Every time I go, which is usually mondays for some reason, they always have the free onion.

I was referring to my pasture that has lost most of its long weeds, but has since been taken over by onions. One horse in particular doesn't seem to mind them and usually greets me with onion breath. There is easily a few acres of onions with not much else growing.

 

[Rodeo hunter]

Yeah cleAring a pasture is tough work. Tedious and exspensive. Around here roundup ready alfalfa seed is $300 a 50lb bag

 

[Who is John Galt]

Well, the Caroni flail mower was delivered a few days ago . . she is every bit as good as the pics the dealer sent me showed it to be. . The paint is not even worn off the blades. ID plate give date of manufacture as Dec 2009. The original drive belts are in new condition . . . I re tensioned them . . It really looks like this mower was used only once and very little at that . . . Exactly what the dealer told me. I am happy.

I have not even taken it off the shipping pallet yet because my L3800 has been at the dealer getting a backhoe installed . . just got her back tonight . . . woohoo!!

I will get her hooked up sometime in the next week or so and start a new thread on the Caroni Flail Mower . .

 

[gpreuss]

Please post a picture or two as well. There is a lot of interest in that flail mower.