roller mower

[difflock]

Major 8000 (as was) roller mower, rollers front and rear, two contra-rotating shaft driven swing tip bar blades, a double bladed mulching kit available.

murder heavy, indestructible build quality, and a very good finish.

I have cut rush bushs, Sally bushs up to 3 or 4", whin bushs and occassional stones.

Finally, finally managed to smash a blade off but only after garbling at a large buried stone, while the DB hydraulics failed to lift quickly enough.

Quite superb.

Also capable of cutting Sports Pitchs to a very high standard.

We ran one for this very reason for a good no of years.

Before I bought mine, both of them.

Edited March 31, 2014 by difflock

[wrsni]

Guy in Antrim has a 6000 for sale on e-bay but I think he's taking the pee with the price as there's no guard on the drive couplings. I don't really do health and safety much but as that thing sits it's potentially lethal.

 

There's also a 6400 which is the same width but with 4 rotors instead of 2. It has a higher rotor speed so cleaner cut for fine turf, think the Trimax is the same with smaller rotors and more of them.

 

Whatever, they're all pricey. Similar money would get us a decent s/h triple but if the roller mower done a good enough job there'd certainly be less maintenance with it and would cover a wider range of work.

 

Might even be a decent topper for the farm.

[difflock]

A cardan or PTO shaft is not an expensive item.

& Easily sourced through your local ag mach dealership

[wrsni]

Could easily swipe a PTO shaft from something sitting about doing little so no problem there.

 

It's the drive and couplings from the middle out to the two rotors which is totally unprotected. I'm sure a new guard would be pricey enough but the mower is not serviceable without it and he's not reflecting that in the asking price IMO.