Looking for flail for small tractor

[Alan Smith]

Hi All,  I'm looking for recommendations for a flail mower to go onto an Antonio Carrera Tigre 3800 (nominally 36Hp from memory).  It will mostly be for ride maintenance but I also have largish areas of sedge and light brush to clear as well.  I like the look of the Alpha Delta eco 135 but would be very interested to hear others opinions/ recommendations.

 

Cheers

 

Alan

[Tree monkey 1682]

Got to be a flail and not a McConnell chain swipe/ jungle buster?

Flails can be good... can be shite especially if they come into contact with something hard ..

[doobin]

55 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Got to be a flail and not a McConnell chain swipe/ jungle buster?

Flails can be good... can be shite especially if they come into contact with something hard ..

I second this. Twice as quick with a single rotor topper than a flail and in some fairly thick stuff too. Especially in thick non brassy stuff like long grass- that slows flails right down. 
 

runs great on reverse drive too. 

[woody paul]

21 minutes ago, doobin said:

I second this. Twice as quick with a single rotor topper than a flail and in some fairly thick stuff too. Especially in thick non brassy stuff like long grass- that slows flails right down. 
 

runs great on reverse drive too. 

You also have reach to back under low branches, and backing up to ditch without ditching tractor. 

[GarethM]

Plus a flail on anything that small will be like watching paint dry through a telescope.

 

Just buy a 4/5ft topper, most of us have gone Topper to flail and then regretted it, then gone back to a topper or the flail gathers dust.