Mowed for about four hours with the L6060 and Woods BB720X HD 6' cutter yesterday. Parcel is mostly fescue and orchard grass, is irregular, some places steep and lots of obstacles. M9960 with either Woods BB840X, 7' cutter or, especially 15' BW is not practical here due to the many obstacles. Parcel had not yet been mowed this year and was heavy, some places very heavy.
BB720X is HD cutter with lots of grass clearance and rear chains, so clears well. Mower is set with skid shoes less than 1" from concrete in barn, and rear of cutter is about 1" higher than front. I keep blades nearly as sharp as a lawn mower. Pulled hard.
Rarely use auto throttle advance when mowing but do use stall guard on occasion. Cannot use both at same time because they often fight each other.
After about an hour of modulating ground speed per conditions with hydro pedal, I decided to see how stall guard would do.
Set PTO to 540 PRM and, where terrain permitted, floored hydro pedal to let stall guard control ground speed. HST in medium range. Not bad. Nearly 6 MPH going downhill if grass not heavy. Usually, stall guard slowed ground speed enough to keep PTO speed above 500 RPM in heavier grass but I did see some 480s before stall guard could get ground speed to 0 in heavy areas.
Worked 6060 and stall guard hard. Used over 5 gallons of diesel. M9960 with 7' cutter would probably have used around 3 gallons if could have used it.
Still, happy with results. HST is ideal for heavily obstructed parcels.
SDT
BB720X is HD cutter with lots of grass clearance and rear chains, so clears well. Mower is set with skid shoes less than 1" from concrete in barn, and rear of cutter is about 1" higher than front. I keep blades nearly as sharp as a lawn mower. Pulled hard.
Rarely use auto throttle advance when mowing but do use stall guard on occasion. Cannot use both at same time because they often fight each other.
After about an hour of modulating ground speed per conditions with hydro pedal, I decided to see how stall guard would do.
Set PTO to 540 PRM and, where terrain permitted, floored hydro pedal to let stall guard control ground speed. HST in medium range. Not bad. Nearly 6 MPH going downhill if grass not heavy. Usually, stall guard slowed ground speed enough to keep PTO speed above 500 RPM in heavier grass but I did see some 480s before stall guard could get ground speed to 0 in heavy areas.
Worked 6060 and stall guard hard. Used over 5 gallons of diesel. M9960 with 7' cutter would probably have used around 3 gallons if could have used it.
Still, happy with results. HST is ideal for heavily obstructed parcels.
SDT
