McHale mowers

[6r 185]

Anyone any experience with them, good or bad?

 

[james ds]

very well built , one of the heaviest mowers on the market , the first of them needed mods , so I'd say the new models will be very good , after all Mchales don't make too many mistakes . The bed is a well known tried and tested bed with a very good reputation. So I wouldn't be afraid of them.

 

[bluepower]

very well built , one of the heaviest mowers on the market , the first of them needed mods , so I'd say the new models will be very good , after all Mchales don't make too many mistakes . The bed is a well known tried and tested bed with a very good reputation. So I wouldn't be afraid of them.

Looks quite a lot like a krone to me?

 

[Kevtherev]

Are the malone mowers similar?

 

[james ds]

Looks quite a lot like a krone to me?

There's no connection between the two or sharing of parts , I was in the krone factory last week and it's amazing how they make so much machinery , 12,000 mower beds / yr.

 

[james ds]

Are the malone mowers similar?

No , Malones own design with comer beds

 

[6r 185]

very well built , one of the heaviest mowers on the market , the first of them needed mods , so I'd say the new models will be very good , after all Mchales don't make too many mistakes . The bed is a well known tried and tested bed with a very good reputation. So I wouldn't be afraid of them.

what make is the bed? are they not there own?

 

[The Badger]

very well built , one of the heaviest mowers on the market , the first of them needed mods , so I'd say the new models will be very good , after all Mchales don't make too many mistakes . The bed is a well known tried and tested bed with a very good reputation. So I wouldn't be afraid of them.

Hope the contour following has improved on the front ones then

 

[The Badger]

what make is the bed? are they not there own?

Samaz

 

[james ds]

Hope the contour following has improved on the front ones then

It had to improve , it was the biggest fault on the front mower .

 

[6r 185]

It's a back one were looking at

 

[The Badger]

There's no facility to bolt on wear skids on that bed

 

[James]

after all Mchales don't make too many mistakes .

except for the gap between the pickup and rotor on the balers that they ignored

 

[james ds]

There's no facility to bolt on wear skids on that bed

Can the stone guards be replaced or is it all welded solid .

 

[Sanchez]

I heard that McHale are gone back to the drawing board, and the main design man at McHale was spotted by a customer laying in under the back of the HiSpec mower at the ploughing match in september.

 

[Not again]

They are very heavy on the back of a tractor. I know of two that were returned because they made the tractor unstable. One was replaced by a Kuhn. The tractor was a 140 hp New Holland. Tried one on a 200hp tractor and found it could lighten the front of the tractor. Did a good job mowing but just too heavy

 

[Boohoo]

except for the gap between the pickup and rotor on the balers that they ignored

Isn't a problem that's unique to McHale. Hopefully they'll take a look at a Kuhn pick up and rotor when they're designing the Fusion 4

 

[6r 185]

Watched a video on YouTube this evening, that was a new Holland first time I've seen a set of Wafer weight hung off the near side of a mower! Obviously to counterbalance the Weight of the bed

 

[v8willy]

except for the gap between the pickup and rotor on the balers that they ignored

2017 machines are different to improve that, time will tell.

 

[James]

2017 machines are different to improve that, time will tell.

Haven't seen a 2017 model yet. Have they reduced the gap between the rotor and pickup?