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Front and back flail topper combo

mountfarm

Member
Looking to flail 6m stewardship margins, winter cover crops and some grass paddock work. The annual workload isn’t massive at around 300-400ac per year so want something affordable. We’re currently doing it with a 3m rear mounted topper but it won’t flail the flattened cover crop in the tractor wheel marks and also 3m wheel marks in overwintered generally wet cover crops in mid February isn’t ideal.
I’d also like the rear machine to be able to side up hedges as well as ditches. I’m thinking about £8,000 budget.
 

Oscar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Use to have a Weaving Agrimaster 2.8 on back offset with 2.8m Kuhn on front which was a good combo. Had it on a tractor with 710 tyres so rear mower could nt get pass tyres so 4.3 m overal cut width .
Only issue with the off sets is that you have a long PTO shaft to accommodate the range of movement so on full stretch ( max width) you have 5/6 ft of shaft so have to be careful that PTO guard does not get damaged and keep shaft and guard lubricated or else it does not end well . Used it for siding hedges and was quick but my tractor was too wide so could nt get mower right over pass wheel but still did a fair job of tyding up lanes for visibility.
 

mountfarm

Member
Use to have a Weaving Agrimaster 2.8 on back offset with 2.8m Kuhn on front which was a good combo. Had it on a tractor with 710 tyres so rear mower could nt get pass tyres so 4.3 m overal cut width .
Only issue with the off sets is that you have a long PTO shaft to accommodate the range of movement so on full stretch ( max width) you have 5/6 ft of shaft so have to be careful that PTO guard does not get damaged and keep shaft and guard lubricated or else it does not end well . Used it for siding hedges and was quick but my tractor was too wide so could nt get mower right over pass wheel but still did a fair job of tyding up lanes for visibility.
So can the rear mower run centrally behind the tractor or must it side shift to run?
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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