Mott mower

[Slowpoke]

Is this mower repairable at a reasonable cost?

It seems to be missing the safety cover. Seller says it needs bearings. Bearings are usually inexpensive, but these may be something special.

Asking $150.

Thanks,

Slowpoke

 

[jCarroll]

Save the $150 + $100 for bearings and buy a finish mower.

I've sharpened the knives on a Mott mower ..................

 

[Slowpoke]

I have weeds knee high to waist high on several acres.
I am using a White LT 16hp with 32" belly lawn mower.
It sometimes dies in very heavy cutting even in first gear.
I would use the flail mower on a Case 530.
Slowpoke

 

[jCarroll]

I have weeds knee high to waist high on several acres.

This is NOT a flail mower application. IMHO

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I have a four foot Mott on an A-C G. It does a nice job on grass up to 5-6 inches but at 10 HP I have to go slow. Sharpening blades is the problem. Four rows of fifteen, two blades on each post, two edges on each blade so 240 edges to grind. Takes about two hours to change a set.

 

[DR. EVIL]

Flail mowers pull hard, REAL hard, your mowing many blades or stems of grass and weeds many times each.
Dad tried a couple JD flail mowers, sometimes called green choppers to cut his CRP ground, He cut the chutes off the back that directed clippings into a trailing wagon, without the chute it blew clippings over the just cut swath.

The six foot cut flail mower would bring a good running Farmall Super M right to it's knees in some places. The cover crop he was mowing was DENSE! He bought a used and abused #5 Deere sickle mower and it worked fine the first mowing, plugged constantly on the second mowing. If Dad hadn't sold his 6 ft Brillion rotary mower/chopper he could have cut those 80 acres of CRP easily with that Super M running 5 mph covering about 3-1/2 acres per hour.

I'd leave that MOTT mower right where it's at and leave your $150 cash right where it's at too.

 

[Slowpoke]

Dr. Evil,
I will take your advice and every one else's and pass on the Mott mower.
Thanks,
Slowpoke

 

[BobReeves]

Anything can be repaired. Bearings are not hard to change, just depends on how much effort verses $ you can live with.

I really like my JD 7 foot flail, Pull it with a Ford 3000 and keep about 6 acres of old pasture cut with it. Got it at a consignment auction for $150.00, put another 200 in it for bearings and broken cutters. Am sure I could sell it for $800 pretty fast but would rather use it.

 

[Leroy]

Township had one on a MF 35 when things were new to mow the roadsiders. Done a beautiful job. If it took that kind of power the twp couldf not have used it. When they decided to update they bough a Deere if I rember correctly of about double for use with a rotary type mower and that outfit did a horible job. I think Mott is out of bussiness now tho from what I have read here on YT so parts would be your big thing. But if took that much power why did the TWP get along good with it for several years and then had to have twice as big a tractor for the new mower that did not cut any way close to as good?