BE CAREFUL MOWING NEW LAND! FLAIL MOWER HITS HIDDEN OBJECTS!

Finally, after years, we've closed on new property! We couldn't be happier in that regard. It is the perfect place to test attachments, and first on the list is a Del Morino Funny Top flail mower, as we've got to clear some paths for driving and walking out there. But how big can you go using just a sub-compact? Is there any advantage of a flail mower over a brush hog/rotary cutter? And what about other types of flail mowers, and blades? Don't worry, we'll cover all of that today and you might find yourself heading over to goodworkstractors.com to see what we have in stock!
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[@GoodWorksTractors]

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY EVERYONE! IF YOU'RE IN THE MARKET FOR A FLAIL MOWER, THEN CHECK OUT WHAT WE HAVE FOR SALE! Funny Top. Manual Offset. No hydraulics needed. Great for small tractors. bit.ly/3jsRidS Centurion. Hydraulic Offset. Two hydraulic circuits required. Great for larger tractors. bit.ly/3AcyENw

[@Nightowl5454]

is there any manufacturer that makes a flail mower that would mow 12 inches high?

[@rcclassiccrawlers4368]

Congrats on the property! Plenty of opportunities and projects ahead. Should be a great time!

[@lilredcummins]

Its nice when you have the right equipment, you don't worry about taking on big tasks. Congratulations on the property purchase. Looking forward to seeing the improvements.

[@MikeDamone]

Stunning piece of property. Congratulations and looking forward to watching your future projects.

[@harmab2]

Congratulations, and yes, I'll be watching your progress and planning on learning from you!!! Thank you in advance ☺

[@wbulex]

Have fun clearing and developing your new property. Look forward to updates.

[@deanstrickland6993]

Congratulations Courtney!! I wish you and your family nothing but the best of adventures in the days ahead!

[@MikeGetsItDone]

You're going to have so many new uses for your equipment and opportunities to take us along with your video content. Really looking forward to the months and year ahead, Courtney, to see what you can do.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you Mike, we're really looking forward to it too!!

[@richardzicarelli3193]

Congratulations on your property purchase Courtney. Wishing you and the family the very best!

[@TubeYou7531]

Looking forward to seeing your videos on developing the land, especially anything related to overall site planning of roads, locations of buildings, and drainage.

[@lilyt8578]

Great video as always. Well thaught out case for the flail mower and glad you explained why you can not use a quick hitch out back. Anyway congratulations on the land purchase. I know you have talked about that. Have a great day Courtney, Chris and everybody and be safe. Tim

[@ThomasLips]

Beautiful piece of land! So happy for you and your family!!! Keep the great videos coming!

[@MrGolden28473]

Congratulations on the land! Looks beautiful, hope to see more vide building.

[@brianbull5447]

Looking forward to watching the transformation! Congratulations on the new property!

[@t.conner4798]

Congratulations, you’re fortunate to have access to all the right equipment. Enjoy the journey!

[@pjheloguy]

Congratulations on the new property. Enjoy, have fun and stay safe.

[@josephsierra7295]

Hey! Congrats on the property! Wish you the best of luck! A flail mower could someday be in my future...We shall see. Thanks for sharing!

[@mikescanlon3946]

Congratulations on the new purchase! cant wait to see the adventure and the cleanup and clearing!

[@ralphjelomono9068]

Congrats on the new property. Look forward to following your transformation projects.

[@randalmiddleton8068]

Congrats to yas all...your going to have sooo much fun in the years ahead.

[@toddcreech3763]

Congratulations on the property ! Gonna be fun watching your videos on clearing and maintaining the land.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

It's going to be a lot of fun!

[@jeremygladd6657]

Congratulations on the property, can’t wait to see what you make of it.

[@OrangeismyNewGreen]

Congrats on the property, lots of fun coming up 👍🏻🙋🏼‍♂️🙂

[@robsmith7681]

Courtney, I sent you a email yesterday off the good works website about the stump bucket. I appreciate the quick response you gave back. I’ll be in the market for one here pretty soon, lots of things I could use it for. Thank you sir!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Very welcome Rob, have a great day!!

[@philnolan7193]

Awesome new property, great to see so many established trees.

[@rodshepard3967]

Congratulations on purchasing the property. I'm sure many future videos will be made from here. Looking forward to see the transformation.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Yes sir, we're very excited!

[@ryanwoodlee]

Congrats on the new property. Looking forward to watching the transformation.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thanks Ryan!

[@timziegler9358]

Congratulations! Beautiful property! The new owner of your current home must know that he has to keep up the yard as you did. :) Best wishes.

[@stanb.5517]

Flail mowers are great for native grass plots. They chop up last years growth and leave it spread out with no wind rows. I mow the native grass to about a four inch height each spring. I scalp my buffalo grass to the bare earth with the flail mower then use a conventional mower to remove the dead grass.. Don’t believe in a hard link for my third point, a chain works great. It controls the mowing height then will allow the mower to kick up over irregular terrain. Actually if truth be known, I do not use a hard link for any of my implements., be it a rototiller, grader scraper, planter, rake etc. I let the weight of the implement do it’s job and it is easier to change implements when the third link is a slack chain. However, this approach does not sell many quick change units.

[@jondirive]

Congrats! Beautiful property.

[@lifeonadrycreek]

Congratulations on your new property! Sounds like lots of good content to come!

[@belindakt]

Congratulations! That is a beautiful looking piece of land, so happy for you guys! You're gonna have lots of opportunities to finally use some of the equipment you sell-

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thanks Belinda. I know it, it's been a long time comin! Hope you and yours have a Happy 4th of July :)

[@BTarpley805]

@@GoodWorksTractors Almost time for your second 4th of July!! Loving these videos!

[@ridesafe2]

Congratulations on your new land purchase. Also good luck with the building.

[@kdogbigdog]

Congrats on the new place. Look forward to seeing what you use to get it looking like a golf course.

[@kevinjansen2738]

Congrats sir. Nice looking piece of property. Looking forward to the videos

[@TunafishSmoothie]

I have found a metal rake twice now when mowing high grass with a 1025r, 60" deck. The sound is terrible, and caused things to pucker that I hadn't know about before. Thankfully I hit it them with the mower blades rather than a puncture in a back tire with liquid ballast. Lessons learned, of course, now I do a walkthrough of any high-grass before I mow. Not perfect, and do a thorough tick-check afterwards.

[@cwolf8841]

You can send socks, pants, and shirts etc. to be treated. InsectShield. Ticks can be expensive.

[@arsenalchartersboatcaptain2771]

Beautiful property! Congratulations and looking forward to the content! I'm doing similar work on our property!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you sir, have fun playing...err, I mean working!

[@tjbarnett35]

Great looking land, Congratulations.

[@timh8976]

Congratulations!! Beautiful property👍

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you Tim!

[@marilynwitherell186]

Congratulations very happy for you & the family.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you so much Marilyn :)

[@randywhelan8944]

Congratulations on the new property , looks like a playground for tractor enthusiast , ♥️it play on..

[@ritterjon]

💥 Congrats on the new property! Sure would love to see a front mount flail mower. Does Delmarino make one? *Keep on tractoring!*

[@s.e.8719]

Congrats on the property. Looks like a great location.

[@reno4819]

Congrats on the property!!! That looks awesome.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thanks so much!

[@robertsteele8838]

Thank you for great video

[@Legalmachinist]

Congratulations on your new developing estate!

[@terrymcgillicuddy8056]

Great video, thanks.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thanks for watching!!

[@johnr1350]

Congrats on the property! You somewhat answered this at the end, but would a “Y” flail produce a good enough cut for lawn grass assuming you didn’t care about having a golf course quality lawn? I will have 4 or so acres of lawn / land to mow and the weight, width, offset and compactness of a flail seems more attractive than a finish mower. I will not have a belly mower, but do have a rider mower for finer work if necessary.

[@vernonrose2567]

Good Morning! Thanks for another informative video and congratulations!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you so much, Happy 4th of July!

[@kendrury3713]

Good for you Brother, alot of work ahead!

[@Flyfish325]

Nice piece of property, better than having another golf course in the area. You’re closer to my home, good hunting in that area too.. Enjoy.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Yeah, hoping for some great hunting, I'll be finding out!

[@mooman86]

Congrats on the land purchase!!

[@darrindunn8707]

Fantastic. Can't wait for the new content coming out. You still have time for a food plot or 2. 😉🦌. Do you have any of these flail mowers available at your shop? Congratulations on the property. 🚜🇺🇸

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Haha, heck yeah. Got my seed on order! Very low on flails at the moment, but do have more expected to arrive in August.

[@roybaughman306]

Thank you for answering a question I had with my 1025r I have multiple hydraulic rear functions on what I can use.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Happy to help!

[@tjt1992]

Congratulations on your new purchase!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you!

[@martinadamczewski3975]

Congratulations on your new property good luck

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you sir!

[@bigbobby401]

Congratulations on the land purchase!

[@benhamilton8132]

Congratulations on new property love your channel

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thanks so much!

[@russbowman6801]

One guy I know cleared his pond with two tractors, one on each side, and a heavy cable between them. Just a thought.

[@peterbrunetto8062]

Lots of luck on property !

[@corneliuslacour3895]

Great Info

[@jamesmbutler]

Congratulations!!!

[@jean-philippegagnon9189]

looks promising! You're gonna need to have a camera on you 24/7 with all the work you'll be doing and the good thing is you get to use all your toys!

[@Canopus68]

I managed a vineyard. The owner of the vineyard had a brush hog and it didn't work well because it would slice off the top of the purnings and leave the the rest. The local tractor dealer gave me a call one day and told me had a flail mower with hammer blades. I told him I'd be right over. It sucked up the purnnings and chipped them. The people who worked for me were very happy they didn't have pick there way through the purnnings any more. It was a six foot mower behind a Massy 135 two wheel drive.

[@Itsa_Mea]

Congrats. Wow that's a lot of land. Your brother is correct since the land was never worked.

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Dang, I hate it when he's right! I'd better delete this comment before he sees it! 😂

[@jpic6098]

Congratulations!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you!

[@playinghomesteadwiththeash7549]

Great video. Can you swap out Y blades for hammers and vice versa?

[@doorjumper2549]

Would it be possible to put hammer blades on the end of the flail for chewing up small trees and use "Y" blades on the rest of it? Would it be too unbalanced to spin smoothly?

[@jjacres129]

Congrats and lots of videos to come I bet

[@brickwall217]

Great review. What is the maximum cut height for this flail mower? Also, did you have any issues with debris being thrown out the front of the mower? Finally, what's your opinions on this mower with the "V" blades vs the the JD belly mower? Thanks

[@phillyfathead]

Congrats 🎈🍾🎉!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you!!

[@PhillipDavis830]

Would you recommend this mower for roadside mowing where a rotary cutter isn't practical? My driveway is an old tractor path with very large rocks on both sides. One side is higher than the road and the other is lower.

[@johnmichael7570]

Autumn olive is great for deer. Deere too but whitetail love it.

[@Classifiedreality]

Congrats...😎

[@PaulChristenson]

Congrats on the land purchase

[@PaulChristenson]

It looks like you have a couple of old hay fields you could bale...:)

[@AldenHayFarmer]

Running the mower in a centered position when possible also keeps the driveline straight, prolonging its life as well.

[@ilmo2313]

Are you using any kind of protection under the tractor belly? Any problem with weeds wrapping around the drivetrain shaft or the 4wheel driveshaft? I’m concerned about this and I wonder if any vendors make an attachable belly pan using the auto connect.

[@kbbb4227]

Thnx.

[@johnbutchc.jenkinsii8910]

I used to know a guy who ran a flail mower to groom the golf course greens at a country club. He bragged about how smooth it cut when sharp, but always told me you don't want to cut woody stuff with it....looks like you're using this unit in the rough pretty affectively. Is this typically a good application for that type of mower?

[@peterbrunetto8062]

I wanted to ask you do you know what the distance from the ground to the deck of the Kubota BX2680 ?

[@mrwilson4909]

11:00 in high brush areas, what model of flail mower are you using? C or M model?

[@GoodWorksTractors]

That's C (Y Blades)

[@maverickgood5204]

Wow. I didn't know you can run a flail mower behind such a small PTO of 18hp. I guess a 25-40hp compact tractor will be even better to use.

[@scottpulver4920]

Very interested in a flail. Always had a 60” brush bull. Can you set skids to 6” height?

[@BrannonSG]

In a prior video you demonstrated the 52” Funny Top flail on the 1025r. This time you used the 62”. For those of us without dual wheels or wheel spacers, would you recommend the 52” version, or is the 62” fine with a standard 1025r?

[@GoodWorksTractors]

62" is what I'll use from now on. Duals or not.

[@NicFarming]

Hey, i like your videos alot! I am from germany but so far they do teach me alot about tractors and their implements. However i would like to ask for a Comparision between the Hammerblades and Y-Blades. We in germany personally run Hammerblades for all weighting 800gr per hammer, and they do fantastic against shrubs brush and also i mow the lawn with it. Thats why would find it intresting to have a direct comparison in that thick brushy stuff you mow, since i think for your new property even if it is just maintanece mowing i think the hammerblades would do better for you. So far i have only seen Y blades for golf courses where am i from, Homeowners and Farmers use Hammerblades only with great sucess, maybe your as curios as i am or you already decided on it. Hope you read this and thanks for showing all these implements and what they are capebale off and i wish you all good for your new property!

[@jimmcknight3021]

You might check out a channel where a guy is real big into Ventrac and he got a hold of both the hammer blades and the y blades flail mowers that Ventrac just released. True, Ventrac is a different kind of tractor, but I think the comparison would be similar on a rear flail mower on a regular compact or subcompact tractor. It would be fun though to see the comparison on his new property. It would also be fun to see some comparisons between various stump grinders versus stump bucket. I guess we're giving Courtney a lot of homework! Lol lol

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thanks a lot. Yes, I definitely have plans to do comparisons such as this in the future. Looking forward to it. Have a great day!

[@mudpuddle8805]

The problem with a mower behind a tractor is the tractor tires press down the weeds so the mower misses some. An hour later, the pressed down weeds stand up again and the field looks a mess. A front mounted flail mower might be better.

[@jvin248]

Is it possible to mix both hammer and Y cutters on the flail mower? Goal is to knock out the thicker woody stuff by also give a great cut on normal grass/weeds. You'd need to keep the weight balanced so you'd need pairs of cutters on opposite sides of the drum. Perhaps a good experiment: all hammers, all Ys, mix 50/50 hammers and Ys, and mix 20/80 hammers and Ys.

[@bill29456]

Quick question: In a flail mower, which is better, belt driven or chain drive, or gear drive? Awesome property, looks great.

[@supertramp6011]

I think it depends on the size of the mower, and what is being cut. I am cutting rushes with a brand new four and a half foot flail, with twin belts. The belts both snapped on day two, after picking up a rock in the flails. Also, second pass will pick up a lot of dead rushes,and this can choke the mower, causing the belts to slip. Over time, this should be less of a problem,as the cut shouldn’t be so hard, and rocks are getting cleared all the time. Lifting ,and backing up the flair usually clears any debris stuck inside of it. Generally, I am quite impressed with it for my 4 acre paddock- sure beats doing it with a brushcutter by hand!🤣

[@kaybrown5637]

I have the same flail mower, and I like it. However, the owners manual states to use only SAE 140 EP gear oil, but I can't find it anywhere.

[@joerudi15]

Another owner of the Funny Top mentioned SAE 140 EP on a tractor blog. I just bought a new Funny Top and the manual says 90 W. Maybe that 140 EP is a metric or Euro thing. Put 90W in there and go.

[@normanbanks8902]

Do they make a self contained unit for an ATV/SxS? If so you need to make a video on that. I’d be really interested in one.

[@throngcleaver]

Awesome property! Can't wait to see the improvements you do. :D Oh, and that's a mattock, not a pick axe. ;)

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Haha, thank you!!

[@trader025]

Maschio makes an offset and tiltable for subcompacts

[@rb3425]

I sure wish I would have seen this video before I bought my rotary cutter for my subcompact! 😢

[@seenithere]

Congrats on the new property, looks real nice!

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Thank you!

[@chris3m98]

Good things happen to good people. Congrats! P.S. Maybe it's time for a new pet to take care of all that land??? My friends' dog had 9 pure-bred labs with AKC papers 3 weeks ago. Still have 7 dogs, 2 chocolate females, 1 black female, and 4 black males. 🐕

[@AlexBuker]

Can you mow your yard with one of these with Y blades so we can see it? I'm so close to pulling the trigger

[@AbiDemelo]

Does it tilt to cut angled banks or ditches?

[@AlbertBalint12]

hello, how much area do you mow in one hour?

[@arlisspropertyservicesllc5943]

Can hammer blades be swapped out for Y blades on same unit?

[@GoodWorksTractors]

Yes, they sure can

[@robertsteele8838]

I have a B7100 Kabota 19 hp 4x4 they’re telling me I should not run over a 40” what’s your thoughts I’m thinking 48”