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Flail mowers feature a horizontally-mounted rotor with numerous hinged (flailing) blades that pulverize a variety of materials in a single pass: Cover Crops, Weeds, Grass, and Brush up to 1” diameter. These heavy-duty mowers are the most forgiving mower type in rocky conditions due to the fact that the blades can easily “fold back” when hitting a hard object. The blades “flail” out by centrifugal force (at a drum speed of about 3000 rpm) to pulverize material.
Their design being a miniature version of a full-size “bush-hog” on a full-size tractor, these mowers will handle heavy material and are built to take some punishment. All brands & models feature blades mounted on heavy duty pivots so that blades can “fold back” when encountering a solid object such as a rock, stump, etc., and not damage the gearbox. These mowers are essentially rotary axes that will take down weeds, brush and up to 2” softwood/1.
Grillo model G85 walk-behind tractor with
45” single-action cutter bar mower This page describes the sickle bar mower IMPLEMENTS to fit our BCS and Grillo brand walk-behind tractors. The prices below are for the SICKLE BAR IMPLEMENT ONLY…these prices DO NOT include the tractor! For walk-behind tractor prices, please see our walk-behind tractors page. Typically called Sickle bar mowers, these have been the traditional mechanized tool for mowing hay for over 100 years.
When one of the tasks you need a walk-behind tractor to perform is maintaining a lawn, you will find that these lawn mower implements equal or surpass any commercial-grade lawnmower on the market… both in performance and quality. All models feature heat-treated gear drive in oil bath, 1/8” plate steel decks, and high-lift blades that have hinged blade tips (on all but 22”) to protect gearboxes and spindles from impacts with stumps, rocks, etc.
Disc mowers are ever-more popular for mowing hay with 4-wheel tractors, and now we offer a model for a walk-behind tractor. These mowers feature spinning discs with small hinged blades on the outside edges which will “fold back” in the event of hitting a rock, stump, etc. Advantages over cutter bars are lower maintenance and no vibration, disadvantages are higher profile and more power-consumptive, hence not as much available cutting width per-tractor-horsepower.
This mower was first introduced by BCS in 1990 as a “Heavy Duty Mower”, in response to a demand in the North American market for a “brush mower” implement (which BCS did not offer up to that time); BCS styled The deck after the old Gravely® brand 30” brush mowers. This seemed like a good idea at the time… BCS now calls it a “HD Combo” mower, putting it forth as half brush mower, half lawn mower.