Z linkage topper

[melted welly]

Looking for one of the above, flail topper on z bar linkage that will work off set with ability to tilt topper down 40-50 degrees for ditches, banks and up 90 degrees for trimming back errant branches/bushes on side of tracks. 2.8m wide.

what makes are better, what to avoid?

is £8-9k a realistic budget? I’m totally out of the loop on these things, historically we’ve just bought someone else’s secondhand problems cheap from round the back of the dealer yards…,, then lived to regret it.

Not interested in hedge cutters.

Also flails v hammers? I’m thinking wide flails then maybe could use on back to pulverise potatoes

is there a difference in the rotor if specced with hammers rather than flails?

thank you.

 

[Nearly]

@Dave W

 

[Dave W]

I’ve nothing in stock.
I’m not sure that budget is realistic for a quality new machine

 

[melted welly]

I’ve nothing in stock.
I’m not sure that budget is realistic for a quality new machine

What sort of price are they do you know?

Saw new agri master advertised for around £8k. No idea if that’s a good make or not though.

show season almost here, so maybe some specials on the go

 

[Welderloon]

When you get one @melted welly can you come & cut the roadsides round about so the overgrown cow parsley, whins & broom stop encroaching on to the carriageways on all the back roads, the councils seem to have taken their green neglect pish to new levels.

 

[Flat 10]

Looking for one of the above, flail topper on z bar linkage that will work off set with ability to tilt topper down 40-50 degrees for ditches, banks and up 90 degrees for trimming back errant branches/bushes on side of tracks. 2.8m wide.

what makes are better, what to avoid?

is £8-9k a realistic budget? I’m totally out of the loop on these things, historically we’ve just bought someone else’s secondhand problems cheap from round the back of the dealer yards…,, then lived to regret it.

Not interested in hedge cutters.

Also flails v hammers? I’m thinking wide flails then maybe could use on back to pulverise potatoes

is there a difference in the rotor if specced with hammers rather than flails?

thank you.

Tehnos may well be in budget. Very well made and painted. BBurgess and Tuckwells are dealers. What do you mean hammers or flails? Solid or on chains? I’d use the solid ones as on a normal front rear flail.

 

[Chae1]

When you get one @melted welly can you come & cut the roadsides round about so the overgrown cow parsley, whins & broom stop encroaching on to the carriageways on all the back roads, the councils seem to have taken their green neglect pish to new levels.

It's come to that here. We've bought a hedge cutter and do verges and gorse ourselves now on local roads we use regularly.

 

[Chae1]

Here goes one for you within budget.

SHELBOURNE REYNOLDS FBO2800 FLAIL MOWER

www.rossagri.co.uk

 

[Flat 10]

Here goes one for you within budget.

SHELBOURNE REYNOLDS FBO2800 FLAIL MOWER

www.rossagri.co.uk

Not what OP is after.

 

[melted welly]

When you get one @melted welly can you come & cut the roadsides round about so the overgrown cow parsley, whins & broom stop encroaching on to the carriageways on all the back roads, the councils seem to have taken their green neglect pish to new levels.

It’s rewilding, they’re saving the planet for net zero and the biodiversity crisis/disaster/emergency that they all know we’re in.

plus, half the council office bods don’t really use the roads now due to working flexibly from their couch at home apparently.

 

[alomy75]

These are excellent. Hammer flails and built like a brick. 3-5000 for a good used one. Had ours for years now

 

[Welderloon]

It's come to that here. We've bought a hedge cutter and do verges and gorse ourselves now on local roads we use regularly.

Its terrible around here, even after they have made their annual 'pass' with the verge cutter, because nothing has been properly tidied up since Corrie & Arwen there are still tree trunks & tree limbs sticking out of verges, walls, bankings & ditches which are a hazard in themselves.
Verge contractor isn't risking rattling into them so the whins & broom are now out of control -the whole area looks like a scene out of Planet of the Apes c/w cracked & broken road surfaces

I was hoping for a drought as any strategically dropped source of ignition could quickly tidy up a huge area if the breeze was in the right direction

 

[Gerbert]

I bought this Perfect 275 sv topper last year. Not used much yet but seems to do the job. It was €12k ish.

 

[lou]

Bruce hopkins have this advertised on facebook
**For sale on behalf of customer**

2021 Weaving WFN260 offset flail

2.6m

Full offset

Extremely low use and very tidy flail machine selling due to downsizing

£4750 + VAT ONO

Call Will on 07435 609580 for more info!

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