Collecting grass off waste land

agrotron

Member
I usually flail mow some roughing industrial land approx 40acres. I haven’t done it for a couple of years and now they are asking if I can do it and collect the grass to be disposed of on site. (Presume it is to promote wild flowers etc). I wouldn’t like to mow it with a normal mowing machine due to stones etc. If I flailed ,it would it row up and bale or would it be to smashed up to form a bale? Any advice on best machine for the job. A grass sweeper like on small tractor would be ideal but is there a large version?
 

Tractor Tim

Member
Arable Farmer
Done it before depending on how rough it is and the amount of stones sticks from dog walkers or even mattress springs from where some one has had a fire we don't normally go near it with a baler. Row it up with a single rotor rake into a big swath and push it up and load into a trailer never done more than 20 acre in a go through
 

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