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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustang Guy" data-source="post: 119556" data-attributes="member: 13485">You're starting to scare me, man. Your weight numbers are off by at least a thousand pounds. My flail mower weighs in at ~620 lbs., way under the machine's capacity (I believe a rotary cutter weighs about the same). And FYI, the rotating hammers on my unit don't throw the slash backwards, they counter-rotate and tend to throw forwards, albeit very little, because it mostly goes right back down as mulch. I haven't felt the need to do weight distribution calculations because this mod isn't that critical. I'm a retired engineer, and know Newton and Euclid very well. That said, being an engineer allows me to design and fab some great stuff.Ddbackhoe, thanks for the link. I think a simple parallelogram and jack screw will do the trick for height adjustments. That way I can just put it in float and greatly reduce any lift/tilt stresses.</blockquote>