Skid Steer Attachment Review: Flail Mowers

One skid steer attachment that is useful for clearing land for a potential building project is the flail mower. It can turn a rough, overgrown lot into a productive and profitable piece of property. While other potential buyers may look at it and see a mish-mash of problems, the smart investor looks at the overgrowth, berry bushes, saplings and brush, and imagines a lovely wooded building lot. And they know it will take a flail mower to get the job done.

For buyers to turn their dream into reality, they are really going to need a way to clear space among the trees for those desirable, selected-tree lots. What they have is a skid loader and a plan. What they need now is a tough and high-quality brush mower skid steer attachment. There are plenty of brush mowers that are available for the skid loader, and it is understandable to be more than a little concerned that this piece of land is going to chew up the average "affordable" mower deck, and spit it back out onto the dirt..

Some modern brush mowers for the skid loader are awesome — true feats of ingenuity. With a versatile set of features, plenty of power, not to mention the inherent advantages of the skid loader itself (like its nimbleness, agility, bullet-proof construction and go-anywhere reputation) most skid loader mowers will make short work of almost any piece of land. But there are a few disadvantages to the more traditional setups, unfortunately, that can leave a skid loader operator scratching his head.

Most traditional mowing attachments are configured as wide decks. This configuration works wonders on geometrically flat plots of grass and weeds, but what should an operator do if the ground is horribly pitted and uneven? Even though an operator can get there with the tough skid loader, that big skid steer attachment is going to leave some crucial spots untouched and untrimmed.

There are also some pretty good brush mowers on the market for the skid loader, and they are fitted with some high quality cutting surfaces. But what if there is some of the really big stuff that needs to be dealt with? And what if it takes the operator completely by surprise? Are they going to damage the skid steer attachment? Do they need a completely separate skid steer attachment for this job?

High-quality, high-power, lightweight brush mowers use unconventional, brilliant engineering to provide real answers to those tough questions. Find a high-flow skid steer attachment with at least 4 inches of cutting capacity; the best ones for this kind of work will be compact and light-weight, for some very good reasons. The best designs will provide a way to attach to the dexterous arm of a backhoe skid steer attachment. Connected to the backhoe arm, the brush mower skid steer attachment will then be able to extend to reach into those hidden gulleys and overgrown ditches, and take down the brush, weeds and grass easily. It will give the skid loader operator full control over the angle and swing of the skid steer attachment, without worrying about tipping the machine.

Use a brush mower skid steer attachment with truly heavy-duty flail cutters under the shroud to turn brush and bushes into the kind of mulch that is fine enough to be left to nourish the newly exposed ground beneath. This feature will actually allow the operator to recycle the material and save time on the clean-up process.

And because of the compact, nimble design of this skid steer attachment, it is possible to do a more thorough job, and reclaim the use of more of the precious property. By buying the best skid steer attachment possible, no job is going to be too small or too big.

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