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Thinking of purchasing a Skid mounted rotary mower, any opinions?
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<blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 55886" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>I would skip the foam tires in favor of steel tracks to protect your tires and add mobility.</p><p>If your 190 is hi flow and you purchase a hi flow attachment you will have more power to keep the attachment from stalling the blade rotation.</p><p>If yours is standard flow you have more limitted hp to run the cutter, @ 25 or 30 hydraulic hp.</p><p>For that reason these cutter are not as good a s a tractor for mowing heavy grass in open fields, a tractor wins hands down here because all of its engine can go to the mower.</p><p>How ever in close quarters, even with less power a skidsteer begins to win in manueverability and by mowing without running the brush over first.</p><p>The open front design is the most efficent for conserving hp, unfortunately most open front cutters are high flow. Not sure why this is as the open front helps discharge grass and conserves blade momentum and hp. The only downside is it throws more debris. I have had it chuck stuff out the front and bounce back off a tree and hit the machine. Stay 200 ft away from anything breakable.</p><p>That mower is a direct drive (no gear box) design which I like. The only thing that stands out is the 10ga deck thickness is only .135" material. I have a converted tractor mower that is .125 and it gets dented up pretty bad. A .250" deck is the norm for these comecial grade skidsteer and you have plenty of machine to lift it.</p><p>If you can take a look at one of these someplace</p><p><a href="http://virnigmfg.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=20&category_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=69" target="_blank">http://virnigmfg.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=20&category_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=69</a></p><p>They have a massive blade spindle and 1/4" construction, also float and tilt available and front and rear roller options.</p><p>In the mean time here is a vid of my LS 160 running my converted pto mower on 15.5 gpm at 2600 psi, you can here it stall the blades at times, but it will still do quite a bit of damage for a std flow machine/attachment.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm-privacy&video_id=i0eWNpMYFYk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm-privacy&video_id=i0eWNpMYFYk</a></p><p>I have a 72" virnig cutter now as well, but have not had the time to video it in action. Also it is a big load even on the Bobcat 185, where this lighter cutter works well with the Ls160</p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skidsteer.ca, post: 55886, member: 307"] I would skip the foam tires in favor of steel tracks to protect your tires and add mobility. If your 190 is hi flow and you purchase a hi flow attachment you will have more power to keep the attachment from stalling the blade rotation. If yours is standard flow you have more limitted hp to run the cutter, @ 25 or 30 hydraulic hp. For that reason these cutter are not as good a s a tractor for mowing heavy grass in open fields, a tractor wins hands down here because all of its engine can go to the mower. How ever in close quarters, even with less power a skidsteer begins to win in manueverability and by mowing without running the brush over first. The open front design is the most efficent for conserving hp, unfortunately most open front cutters are high flow. Not sure why this is as the open front helps discharge grass and conserves blade momentum and hp. The only downside is it throws more debris. I have had it chuck stuff out the front and bounce back off a tree and hit the machine. Stay 200 ft away from anything breakable. That mower is a direct drive (no gear box) design which I like. The only thing that stands out is the 10ga deck thickness is only .135” material. I have a converted tractor mower that is .125 and it gets dented up pretty bad. A .250” deck is the norm for these comecial grade skidsteer and you have plenty of machine to lift it. If you can take a look at one of these someplace [URL]http://virnigmfg.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=20&category_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=69[/URL] They have a massive blade spindle and 1/4” construction, also float and tilt available and front and rear roller options. In the mean time here is a vid of my LS 160 running my converted pto mower on 15.5 gpm at 2600 psi, you can here it stall the blades at times, but it will still do quite a bit of damage for a std flow machine/attachment. [URL]http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm-privacy&video_id=i0eWNpMYFYk[/URL] I have a 72” virnig cutter now as well, but have not had the time to video it in action. Also it is a big load even on the Bobcat 185, where this lighter cutter works well with the Ls160 Ken [/QUOTE]
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