Looking for flail for small tractor

[AHPP]

[skc101fc]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

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A one dog ground clearance machine in the making - I expect to see him on arbtalk touting for work sometime soon. He doesn't seem half as stupid as you've led us to believe in the past. 😁

[maybelateron]

On 25/09/2025 at 22:22, GarethM said:

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.

I have had the opposite experience. 20+ years ago briefly used a finger bar mower on a Forsdon Power Major, then a disc mower on same tractor, then a 6ft Major topper, well built and solid. For the last 15 years I have had a 5ft hammer flail on the back of my 40hp Kubota STV40. The flails have picked up a metal shovel, a 12ft metal gate, hit 8-10 inch diameter logs in the undergrowth. None of these events have damaged to flails. Today I was flailing a paddock and had to crown raise a sycamore at the edge of it. Maximum diameter of branch was 2.5 - 3 inches. I just put the brash and branches on the ground and pulverised it with the flail. Italian made, not Chinese.

[GarethM]

28 minutes ago, maybelateron said:

I have had the opposite experience. 20+ years ago briefly used a finger bar mower on a Forsdon Power Major, then a disc mower on same tractor, then a 6ft Major topper, well built and solid. For the last 15 years I have had a 5ft hammer flail on the back of my 40hp Kubota STV40. The flails have picked up a metal shovel, a 12ft metal gate, hit 8-10 inch diameter logs in the undergrowth. None of these events have damaged to flails. Today I was flailing a paddock and had to crown raise a sycamore at the edge of it. Maximum diameter of branch was 2.5 - 3 inches. I just put the brash and branches on the ground and pulverised it with the flail. Italian made, not Chinese.

Erm, think you might be reading someone else's experience, not saying I don't like flails for the job they can do or the relatively low damages from it eating things.

 

Low hp tractors such as the op are definitely topper type, without it becoming tediously slow.

 

I will be going back to a topper with a smaller fergy tractor, my 80+ hp with a 2m flail on ground that makes a goat clench when you're 14ft off the floor doing overgrown scrub is boring.

 

Trying to get back to managed pastures, flying around after a bit of sheep grazing.

[AHPP]

6 hours ago, skc101fc said:

A one dog ground clearance machine in the making - I expect to see him on arbtalk touting for work sometime soon. He doesn't seem half as stupid as you've led us to believe in the past. 😁

 

I've just pulled a thorn out of his forehead, presumably from going so enthusiastically face-first at his work.