Zero Turn Flail Mower! Cuts EVERYTHING!

I put a flail mower on our Grasshopper 900D zero turn mower and was amazed at what it would cut! #grasshoppermowers #mowdays #zeroturn #lawnmower
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[@joebufford2972]

I used to do that with my push mower. Raising it up and chumping down on brush. Very hard work, very hard on the lawn mower. And that was back in the day

[@TKCL]

Yeah you were hard on it 🤣

[@DeanFamilyAcres]

We love our Grasshopper, and recommend them to anyone who asks. The issue is the $$$ for extras, those flails are crazy $$.

[@TKCL]

I don't know the exact price, but importing it in for sure adds to the cost.

[@6by6by6]

@@TKCLthey are not that bad $5/7k and properly maintained they will last decades, we have a field flail that is 25 + yard old and still mows ditch rows around our 9500 acre farms so that’s cheap cost of ownership.

[@driverjamescopeland]

They're actually really reasonably priced, considering domestic competition. Ventrac's flail deck costs a bit more... but it's also a 72" width. ​@@TKCL

[@Lentuttle]

What an absolute BOSS of a machine! My wife and I recently purchased 42 acres in Arkansas that has about 18 acres of pasture and I think this is what I need in my arsenal. Thanks for the demo! Leo

[@TKCL]

It's an amazing machine! The build quality and ride is second to none. I highly suggest finding your local dealer and taking a test drive, you won't be disappointed.

[@4rubberzaday]

18 acres??? You need a cab AC and stereo!

[@Lentuttle]

@@4rubberzaday Absolutely!

[@robertmorris3919]

Holy smokes! That thing is a beast! Who knew all those attachments were available! Great to know!

[@TKCL]

I had no idea about the flail until recently. It's awesome!

[@JoeTheFarmer]

That thing is crazy! Makes a great cut. Flail mowers are so underrated and I say this as someone that doesn't have one. Great video as always...

[@TKCL]

They do an awesome job, I have been running flails for about 10 years now.

[@BobCaseyAerial]

That flail is a Beast. Nvr bogged down the mower. I’m impressed. Glad you’re sharing these products. Capabilities to be game changers for ppl like us with a good amount of property to keep up.

[@TKCL]

Happy to hear you are enjoying the content. I love showing off and testing equipment.

[@5150cash]

Dang. That's a really nice set-up. I can't believe how it mulched that stuff up 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@TKCL]

Me either, what a cool attachment.

[@sprucemoose87]

Beautiful property sir, truly blessed

[@TKCL]

We sure are.

[@rongray4847]

Hi Andrew, that’s a pretty nice attachment. It’s a beast at what it can do perfect for your property. Good review!! 👍👍❤️❤️🇨🇦

[@TKCL]

I wash shocked at what it can do.

[@dougdavis4439]

That thing is sweet! Nice of your friend to let you show it!

[@TKCL]

It would be nicer if he would let me keep it lol. Just kidding, it really is an awesome attachment.

[@dougdavis4439]

@@TKCL That would be a good friend! Lol!

[@6by6by6]

We have a similar setup on a different power unit for making and maintaining trails on a large timber property we use for all types of recreation, we added a sickle bar cutter hydraulically driven separate from the flail that can be placed on the pusher bar upfront to pre cut tall brush before it goes through the flail. We can also mount that sickle to one side in a vertical orientation to cut brush encroaching higher up into the trails. Those zero turns with large diesel engines and hydraulic systems can do so much more than mow grass . They make excellent spraying platforms also..

[@TKCL]

That sounds very interesting.

[@pastorheathmiller8843]

Thank you so much for this video... I've been looking for a video like this for about a month and this was right on time, as I am looking at the 900 with the 40hp and the flail head.... Thankx again

[@TKCL]

That sounds like a beast of a setup. I have the 40hp Vanguard on a boat and it's very powerful! Let me know if you get it, I'm very curious about the big gas engine.

[@chrisjmiller6]

Grasshopper's are great. Been using them for 30 years

[@TKCL]

They are wonderful mowers

[@pampilgrim2274]

Wow, Andrew! You are going to have so much fun with this piece of equipment! I am excited to watch you put it through its paces. Congratulations, Young Man.

[@TKCL]

Sadly I only have it for a short time before it heads back to its owner.

[@pampilgrim2274]

@@TKCL hopefully you can have your own someday.

[@lynetteleiser580]

Wow, what an awesome piece of equipment

[@TKCL]

Isn't it! I didn't even know they made it.

[@byronholmes2496]

Good day to all.

[@TKCL]

Morning

[@VicsYard]

Ran some Grasshoppers over the years. Great machine. Really nice with that cutter on it.

[@TKCL]

I love the front mount mower, very smooth.

[@brucemitchell5637]

I really like the fact that it mulches it to nothing instead of just cutting it and leaving it piled up on the ground!

[@TKCL]

That's a huge benefit to a flail.

[@ryanzynda5114]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. 😊

[@rodneysr.4175]

Great job, sir. Thanks for sharing.

[@TKCL]

Thanks for watching!

[@LaserGuy64]

That thing is amazing!

[@TKCL]

Isn't it! Really changes the mower game.

[@larryatkins4512]

great tool and very helpful on your land

[@TKCL]

Sadly it isn't mine, but I had to test it out.

[@larryatkins4512]

@@TKCL yes I remember that but still very great tool

[@dam4274]

Man how I’d love one of these!

[@TKCL]

They are amazing, smoothest mower I've ever been on.

[@michaelvahle8225]

Klasse Gerät 👍😁

[@tractordude290]

we had a blower similar, was on a small trailer we pulled around the golf course, it was a buffalo turbine blower, works great!

[@TKCL]

That's the exact company that makes the blowers for Grasshopper.

[@CrystalParanormally]

Loved how you took that tree out without any trouble at all!

[@TKCL]

It's an awesome piece of equipment.

[@PJ-uv9fr]

That was pretty danged impressive! The assortment of attachments available for the GH is amazing. If a person were flush with bucks you could sure make a lot of jobs easy and enjoyable.

[@TKCL]

The attachment lineup is awesome!

[@jefferyschirm4103]

It’s amazing what a 30-40 thousand dollars worth of mower can do , who knew?!!

[@TKCL]

It's also amazing how poor cheap equipment performs.

[@horseblinderson4747]

I know these specialty mowers are way too much. Just because they throw words like professional and mil-spec at it, and consumerists eat it all up. You can get a brand new bestco with 1 lb duckfoot blades and an older Kubota that'll also do other landscaping chores if you're thrifty with you're purchases you could get a whole set up going for anywhere between the cost of this flail and the ZT.

[@TKCL]

@horseblinderson4747 you can also get a used $3000 honda civic or a $100,000 sports car. At the end of the day it's no one's business but the person who worked for the money and spent it as they wish. Same goes for so many other things in life.

[@ranahrgang]

Awesome setup and awesome video. Keep it up! Love your videos!

[@TKCL]

Thanks so much! More to come!

[@haroldanderson2781]

That looked fun!

[@TKCL]

It is, I love running equipment.

[@calebsamuel2214]

Such a great video as always.hope to have a grasshopper mower one day

[@TKCL]

They are the best! I dreamed of owning one for 20 years.

[@mfd4505]

#2, looks very useful.

[@TKCL]

It's quite impressive.

[@rodneyferguson446]

My Son was just given a Grasshopper mower with a Kubota Diesel in it. It's not a Flail Mower and does have several Issues but it was Free and the engine runs great....and for the price ($FREE.99, LOL), I think he has plans on taking the mower deck off of it and putting a Push Blade on the front.

[@TKCL]

Very hard to beat free!

[@joebufford2972]

I see one of those in your future. Andrew. You can reclaim brushy perimeters more and more at every pass and it mulches it so that's a good tool to have

[@TKCL]

It's a sweet attachment for sure.

[@stevebrookshire1176]

I have a Peruzzo flail for my Deere 3320 . It can offset and tilt. It works great and I bought it from Iowa Farm Equipment.

[@TKCL]

Nice!

[@danieldickson5264]

We have the same Peruzzo flail mower on our Grasshopper 725D mower. Beautiful cut and stripes better than the original deck. This is our 2nd season using the flail mower. Quite expensive - $6500 2 years ago. Can't get very close to fences due to the belt guard on the left side of the mower, so this is a drawback. We have the Y blade flails, may go to the hammers at some future point. Neither the Y blades or the hammers are cheap, somewhere in the $700 range.

[@iowafarmequipment2023]

$400 for a set of Y Blades as of today, and they're reversible ;-)

[@danieldickson5264]

@@iowafarmequipment2023 Thanks! I didn't know they were reversible. Good to know. What is the price on the hammers?

[@driverjamescopeland]

I salivated over one of these for years. I love a flail deck. Had one for my tractor, and one for my Toro Groundsmaster. I bought a 930D with plans to purchase this deck for it... but the power unit is a death sentence on my property. Now I have a Ventrac, but really wish Peruzzo would make a 72" deck for it. Ventrac's deck is good... but I prefer the versatility of Peruzzo decks.

[@CarrotCaptain]

Doesn't ventrac have a flail mower?

[@DumbCarGuy]

My mower don't need to do that but it was fun to watch

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Playtime, yeah!!!

[@TKCL]

You mean work? LOL

[@justinmcqueen9513]

Awesome piece of equipment! Have fun with all them chiggers with them shorts on mowing tall brush !!! 😂

[@TKCL]

LOL that's life in Florida.

[@9009matorres]

Your wife must be very understanding. Mine gives me the third degree every time there’s a small Amazon package on the porch lol

[@TKCL]

Lol this isn't mine

[@tunintunin3417]

We hfe this type of mulchers but the type of hammers are interchangeable, I personally have a Muthing and a side mulcher made by Maschio Giraffa.

[@johnsmith-xr6qy]

Kool machine. Your friend should show the dealer your video, get a big discount or dealership for the products they make or sell. Hey a free rental with a new video sounds great too.

[@TKCL]

He was planning on reaching out to them.

[@gateway8833]

The mower demonstrated has Grass Flails, the Brush Flails are vastly different and much more heavily built. While Grass Flails will work on light brush they will dull much more quickly.

[@TKCL]

Your comparing Y blades (the most universal) to Hammers. No need for hammers on this setup as the Y blades are plenty capable.

[@JohnSmith-ug5ci]

The question is how long do those cutters last (hours of cutting) and how much to replace them?

[@bradgriffin1665]

Just remember to knock down those tree cuts. Had a pointy one poke through a truck tire on a cleared trail.

[@InTexasMatt]

Looked like an Orb spider. They don't bite!

[@TKCL]

We call them banana spiders here, they are everywhere down trails.

[@ShaneZettelmier]

I’m with you on being addicted to equipment. Even if I didn’t need it if I won the lottery, I would have to build a 50 x 100 building just to park all my toys. I love your mower. I want to get a vent track. I think everybody needs at least three tractors, of course, motorcycles and ATVs and ATVs excavators, skid steers, for some reason I want to Telehandler😂. I don’t really need it, but you know for fun and “just in case”😂

[@TKCL]

Lol I want a lift myself, would be awesome for so many jobs. Equipment is awesome!

[@ShaneZettelmier]

@@TKCL yep, I want two of everything and I’m still waiting for them to invent the light saber.

[@AskIveSolar]

This is the remix

[@kmb957]

I use a flail mower on my tractor. Has hammer blades. It mulches up to 3" thick wood. I use it on my grass fields and it works extremely well.

[@lennyjourdan8782]

Some great people at Iowa Farm,, I bought my flail for my tractor from them! Does the Grasshopper pick it up vertical for maintenance like it does the rotary cutters?

[@TKCL]

That's great to hear. The Grasshopper only lifts this deck a few inches with the hydraulic lift, you will have to get creative on how to lift it for blade service.

[@AdamDeal-KF0PRI]

i dont thing you need the snow blade or snow blower! but if the made a chipper blower for mulching areas

[@TKCL]

For sure don't need snow equipment.

[@craigb9489]

How soon will you have a few of those cool attachments? That flail is really awesome!!

[@TKCL]

Not sure yet, got too many other toys 🤣

[@craigb9489]

@@TKCL A man can never have too many toys. Lol

[@jeremiahs45]

Didn’t want to share some FaceTime with that spider in the pine trees? That is a nice piece of equipment.

[@TKCL]

Lol no I didn't. I love that flail.

[@freepatriot6313]

I don’t know if it’s my speaker or what… but it sounds like when you say “tractor”…. It comes out sounding like “ trat ter “. I thought only us Texans talked with a weird accent. Glad to see those Floridians are getting their own version of English. 😂

[@TKCL]

I'm from the deep south and part of Florida that's true country. Not that crazy beach stuff you see on TV 🤣

[@randywhelan8944]

You better clean that machine up and return it before your buddy realizes that it's missing 😂

[@TKCL]

Lol 🤫

[@codym2096]

One of these days the Lord is going to bless me with some property.

[@TKCL]

Keep praying! We dreamed for years and years until it was feasible.

[@mikenkfalls]

I'd be willing to sell mine for $24K. It's got the Peruzzo 63" flail with the hardened hammers also. It also comes with 61" finish deck, 15B hydraulic dump, and the dual wheel tail kit. It's a 930D pre emission engine in it, too. Only 274 hrs on it. Runs like a champ and more power than you need. And I'll deliver it to your front door if anyone wants it. And it's a good price. I've got about $30K into it.

[@K-State_Nate]

You sound like a guy who just put something on his wish list. Might wait longer to get to it bc of the new Bobcat and attachments for the Bobcat to get the most out of it, but it is on the wish list.

[@TKCL]

I'm running out of money quickly 🤣

[@keithleder8971]

May I suggest some grazers for your pasture that you are chopping down?

[@TKCL]

That's the plan this fall.

[@ArcsoftProductions]

Is there any reason to not just buy a grasshopper and use this flail head exclusively for both mowing the yard and cleaning up brush? Why ever switch back?

[@TKCL]

You can yes, but you'll never get as good of cut quality with a flail as you do with a mower deck. It just depends on the grass cut quality you are looking for.

[@astikennel]

Thats a beaut! Can you sharpen the flail blades or is it more of a replace when needed?

[@TKCL]

You can sharpen them and flip them over. They cut on both sides.

[@astikennel]

@@TKCL wow!

[@carltrano1325]

That is a impressive set up. Cost?

[@TKCL]

I honestly don't know, you would need to check with Iowa farm equipment. I put their website in the description.

[@shonhaines1995]

Imagine if it had Hammer Blades installed on it!

[@TKCL]

That would be interesting. I do like the current setup as a lot of people will be using this to cut really high and thick grass.

[@jasontaylor9871]

The problem with a mower like that is it makes your yard bigger, you just can't stop mowing stuff down going deeper and deeper into stuff the old mower can't cut, next thing you know the yard gets bigger. Then you got to mow more stuff. 5 years ago I bought a used John Deere front mount mower from a golf course I started out with 4 acres of grass to mow and by the 2nd cut with the front mount I gained another 2 acres of grass to mow

[@TKCL]

I do want to gain property back, we plan to have cows in that area.

[@MichaelSplanefromMaine]

How about cattails around a pond?

[@TKCL]

Shouldn't be a problem

[@BigTader]

The Grasshopper is a very impressive machine but i believe the ventrac is a much more versatile machine and i know the Ventrac is more $$$$. Great video and stay safe. You said more than 1 time you was cutting to low and the adjustment to raise looked very simple so why not adjust the Cutting height when you first said it was cutting to low.🤔🤷‍♂️

[@TKCL]

It was the rear wheel that was impacting me more than anything. I didn't want to unboly and move things on a mower that isn't mine.

[@keithleder8971]

Minimum hp that this flail mower attachment would require??

[@TKCL]

That I don't know. You would need to reach out to Iowa Farm Equipment and ask. They import the mower and also sell Grasshopper. I'm certain that they would know the suitable combos. I found their website to the flail and put it in the video description.

[@jimjennings1970]

How much is the whole machine and mower?

[@TKCL]

You will need to reach out to Iowa Farm Equipment as they sell both. I honestly don't know the prices.

[@440gohorse]

Wait till you have to start replacing the cutters. They are not made to cut brush. You will dull the cutters then it won’t cut grass.

[@TKCL]

I've had a flail for 10 years, that's not true. Once a year sharpening has always served me well.

[@Glenn_and_ShannonsSalty_Life]

Tiffany, why is he killing y’all’s scuppernong grapes?😊

[@TKCL]

We have more muscadine grapes than we could ever eat. Thousands of them growing right now.

[@russellsmith3825]

You've skipped the biggest advantage of the flail mower, safety, they are designed to not throw debris or material if they should hit an object, such as a rock, the knives will pivot and fold if they hit a rock rather than act like a sling shot and launch it.

[@TKCL]

That's very true, I have covered that in depth on my tractor videos. You see a lot of city mowers running flails for this very reason.

[@dirtfarmer7472]

The mower was to low I probably wouldn’t mess with it because it’s not my mower. If it was I’d adjust it every time.

[@TKCL]

If it was I'd take the roller off completely.

[@bobbyfisher6343]

I think the channel needs one…lol

[@TKCL]

Lol maybe one day.

[@hrlee1141]

Another new toy? Is your friend going to get his implement back?

[@TKCL]

Lol yes he is, I'm glad he let me try it out.

[@LastCall534]

$6,300 for that flail, from what I can find. I think that's more than reasonable for what it's capable of doing.

[@TKCL]

I agree, it's far cheaper than buying a tractor AND flail.

[@bobbyfisher6343]

You would be surprised to know how much land you reclaimed

[@TKCL]

We are going to be finding that out this fall. I've lost a lot.

[@evgenyonishkevich8494]

#1

[@TKCL]

Got it!

[@b-lopez394]

Kelly, Cuts ALMOST Everything not Everything🙂. Just wondering how long does it takes an owner to sharpen the blades when time to sharpen it. I like your tractor attachment better.

[@TKCL]

It will take a little while, I had a flail for years on my bigger tractor with the same blades. Honestly one time a year is sufficient unless you damage the blades.

[@toddzuck3530]

wait til you sharpen it

[@TKCL]

I've had flails for over 10 years. I'm aware of the sharpening, yes there are a lot of blades.

[@jackkonnof4106]

That's pretty cool but I dont think I want to sit that close behind it.

[@TKCL]

It doesn't toss anything up, it all shreds in the drum area.

[@RobertKohut]

Well that was a flail.... 🙂

[@TKCL]

Lol yeah I guess so.

[@michaelvahle8225]

Aber Teuer

[@doctorcountersteer6580]

So, Grasshoppers already sport a greater resale calue THAN A TOYOTA !!!!!!????? Id rather have one of these than a Steiner!

[@TKCL]

They are known for quality