- Location
- Ceredigion
Was thinking for docks in grass , drop it on the dock then lift again
Topping grassland
- Thread starter Aspiring Peasants
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M-J-G
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I just wondered if you found much difference on fuel, I've yet to see much difference on the monitor or at the tank.
I'll run something like the bruiser on 1000 but I'll use economy if I'm driving around doing low powered work, but we're mostly on hills here.
I take it you're pretty flat if you can drive around ticking over.
I'm not keen on allowing modern engines to tick over too much
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
It seems to lose less fuel, but no real way of measuring here. I would only do that on flat fields for light topping of course, and my only tractor is a 19yr old (pre-common rail) JD6920 on a 9’ mower. No fuel meters etc, and I wouldn’t be spending more than a couple of hours at it anyway.
12 months ago, there was not a chance of my running the Kubota for more than 30mins at such low revs....
Now sorted
- Location
- West Wales
Straight mower or mower conditioner best for topping? Contractor comes in with butterfly moco’s and even where the toppings are thick they soon wilt away after going through the conditioner so surely better than being laid flat? Thinking of a Kuhn 313 for topping as the McConnell rhino starts striping over 8mph (and yes it’s on newish blades)
Usually the emissions gubbins that are teh issue...?
michael N123
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- Location
- West Wales
How fast can you go before it stripes?
michael N123
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I was just doing 10-12 k was in grazing fields and quite a lot of steep bits so didn’t fancey the Moco with all its weight hanging over one side Can travel accross any bank with that topper
- Location
- Cheshire
Do you not find the disc mower rides up over the bottom layer of rush where it’s thickest? I use our flail for rushes, just macerate it right down too the floor… preferably after spraying but as we’ve lots of other stuff too do in spring sometimes they get too far in front of me.
In my case, the rushes have never got that bad... yet.
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Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
Thanks for the replies . Because I already have a topper I think I will do it with that (after sharpening the blades!).
The intention is to improve those fields and spray the rushes but things seem to have got away from us this year. My mower is a Krone and it mentions skids in the manual so am going to look into that . I would prefer it if all the mowing could be done with one machine instead of having two
The intention is to improve those fields and spray the rushes but things seem to have got away from us this year. My mower is a Krone and it mentions skids in the manual so am going to look into that . I would prefer it if all the mowing could be done with one machine instead of having two
- Location
- Cheshire
The only ground we ever seem too get offered is covered in the damn things!
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
I know the feeling, thistles as wellThe only ground we ever seem too get offered is covered in the damn things!
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
just spray rushes they will just dissapear over winter slowly giving the grass time to fill in
Waste of diesel topping rushes ( unless a scheme prohibits it like here) as the buggers just grow back stronger. At the end of the day it is a type of grass and like a grass being grazed hard they will tiller until they are thicker. Luckily they are cheaply killed by mcpa.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Why don't you spray it now
Rushes are like willow , the more you cut them the more they grow
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
The thought was to cut them now along with headed grass and thistles, and then spray the regrowth later in the year which would be more susceptible to the spray?
- Location
- The moon
You want 540 at the pto so your blades get to speed if your mowing 8-9kI run at 1300-1500RPM giving around 400RPM at the PTO. Fuel gauge hardly moves... but that is hardly scientific I agree.