UK members and proper mowers

Densleigh

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Any from the home of real lawn mowers on here?

Ransomes Sims & Jefferies having invented the cylinder mower here in the UK there should be some UK input about proper mowers - Dennis, Qualcast, Hayter etc etc

This need as a section or two for non US stuff.

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ncredleg

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Sure enough ! I like readiing about how it is done in other countries.For some reason I have the impression :ashamed: that most lawns overseas are not like ours. Either due to restrictions on space due to cost of land or whatever.
 

Gareth

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I'm UK too!

I am amazed at the sizes of land that U.S. guys are cutting! Wish I could have some land at 6 acres or more!
 

Mr. Paul

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I'm UK too!

I am amazed at the sizes of land that U.S. guys are cutting! Wish I could have some land at 6 acres or more!

Most of the time the people who own more than 1.5 to 2 acres live in a rural area. Once you leave the cities land does become less expensive.
 

leon

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For what its worth,


I fully intend to buy a wessex
towed self contained flail mower when I can afford
it with dual anti scalp rollers, front and rear flotation tires,
center mounted engine.grass knives and overseeding blades
and hammer knives if available and buy a cheap riding mower
to tow it as my lawn is only flail worthy and I am still using a
19 year old wheel horse on its second transmission,
starter, mower deck, and battery and can no longer
buy parts for it. Unless of course I managed to win a
prize with the state lottery and my dream unimog,
boom mowers, LL172 motorised snow blower, and
various other attachements strike my fancy-

We no longer have any motorised flail mowers in the
colonies and when Rhino purchased the Mott Mower
Company they killed their beautiful product line for everyone.

we cannot even buy a walk behind flail mower like the Makita
self propelled flail mower, and we have to buy the BCS two wheel
tractor to pruchase the 2 palladino flail mowers sizes designed for
two wheel tractors.

The used motorised flail mower market is invisible as people do not
wish to sell them under any circumstance.


OH and the excuses I have repeatedly heard which have no basis in fact
is that they are unsafe which is pure lies as i have been using my fathers
4 foot motorised flail mower and bought his 36 inch flail mower and foolishly traded
it in on the wheel horse i have now 19 years ago and I wish of course i never traded
it and do not know who owns it now. :frown:



leon




 

jet62095

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I am also very interested in what you guys have over in the UK. Anything from the 60's or 70's still around that you see? Over here (in the US) I have 2 old Cub Cadet lawn tractors from '68 and '74., as well as a 2009 Cub Cadet LTX 1040.
 

Densleigh

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Hi thanks for replies to op nice to see a few in UK - any more

Link to a typical traditional cylinder mower - not a flail type but a multi-bladed cylinder mower for a very fine finish.

http://www.jacobsen.com/marquis

These are seriously expensive circa 」2000 ($2800 +) to get a really fine golf green cut.
Most in UK do not have large areas to mow, flails are used for rough ground and road verges + variations used to cut hedges.
Rotary mowers are the norm say up to about 21", but do not leave a quality finish. Top Uk brand is Hayter who claim to have invented rotary mower after WWII. They do not use a single blade but a rotating disc with 4 swinging blades at the edge . The cut grass is not mulched up but left longer.
Very tough machines - mine is 20+ years old and still tackles a lot of stuff with no issues.
 
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