boom mower

[D17 man]

hello, I am going to be in the market for a 3ph boom mower pretty soon. it will be used on my john deere 2550 with cab. my property has a lot of ditches to mow and also am starting to do side jobs brushhogging and hopefully boom mowing. does anybody own one? what model and what is the best. thanks

 

[retired farmer]

We got one mounted on a Unimog truck.

 

[NEKS]

Ran to different ones both on New Holland tractors the last few years. Got a new one this year and it is a Diamond brand. The older one was Alamo. The Alamo had a 5 foot deck and two foot more reach. The Diamond has a four foot deck. Both of these were mounted permentatly to tractor. The Alamo has a lot of iron in it. It was all self contained and was driven off the front of the engine. The Diamond, just the mower deck run off the front of the engine. Everything else used the tractor hydraulics. The Diamond is on a 6030 NH and they seem to be a good combination. The Alamo is on a smaller tractor and that combination would make some body parts pucker once in a while. If we are talking about the same kind of boom mowers, these couldn't work on a 3ph.

 

[JD Seller]

Rhino makes a good boom mower. I am not sure if your JD 2550 is big enough for one of them. I have sold several of the boom mowers and they went on larger tractors. One was a JD 4450 and the other went on a JD 4640. The mower made them light on the off side when the mower was extended out.

 

[Prawn Farmer]

Another option you might consider: I was looking for a ditch bank mower to use on my pond dams, steep levees, spillways, waterways and general annual fence row maintenance around the farm a couple of years ago. I ended up, instead, with a 2610 Bush Hog single bat-wing that I use on my JD 2630. The tractor rears have ballast and weights in addition to suitcase weights on the front. The tractor is very stable and does a great job on drainage ditches, too.

 

[Rollie NE PA]

Alamo make a very good mower. You will need to determine how much reach you want, type of mower head, rotory, flail with grass flails or brush flails. I have operated all of them. The last mower I operated was a Alamo mid mount with a rotory head.