Cutting long grass

craig51 · 26 Mar 2009

hello all.

If you had 30 acres of what used to be grazing land, but has been left to grow quite long, what would you advise would be the best to cut it with, not only for a one off, but perhaps 3-5 times a years.

Usually I would have bought a ride on with a mulching deck, but there are a lot of rocks around the place with i think would continually be htting the cutters, and are high enough for a standard ride on not to be able to clear.

Any ideas????

Budget about £5k, no more than £7k.

wotan · 26 Mar 2009

craig51 said:
hello all.

If you had 30 acres of what used to be grazing land, but has been left to grow quite long, what would you advise would be the best to cut it with, not only for a one off, but perhaps 3-5 times a years.

Usually I would have bought a ride on with a mulching deck, but there are a lot of rocks around the place with i think would continually be htting the cutters, and are high enough for a standard ride on not to be able to clear.

Any ideas????

Budget about £5k, no more than £7k.

Flail attachment behind a tractor?

Wotan

tim west · 26 Mar 2009

buy a horse or some goats?

ColJack · 26 Mar 2009

for 7K, I'll come and mow it with a push mower 3 times a year...

something with a flex line to start with, then get all the rocks out of it..

dextrous · 26 Mar 2009

Plant a load of trees!!!

Thermo · 26 Mar 2009

grillo do a ride on scrub cutter, or a walk behind billy goat outback. Most local groundcare outlets will advice or give demos on your land as well.

ColJack · 26 Mar 2009

not just for the grim reaper you know..

Thermo · 26 Mar 2009

what for 30 acres!

ColJack · 26 Mar 2009

10 or 12 imigrants with one of them each and you'll be larfing..

xerxes · 27 Mar 2009

Hmm. A new scythe blade plus snaith (handle) will cost around £80 each. Assume one acre per day per person, at minimum wage, (and assume the scythers have the requisite skills): it soon adds up to quite a lot of money.

Why not manage it as a wild area?

Symptoms · 27 Mar 2009

And you WILL get a grant for managing it as a wildlife habitat.

EddieM · 27 Mar 2009

correct me if I'm wrong, but I think an acre is the area that a man with a horse and plough can be expected to plough in one day. I'm not sure you could scythe an acre in one day, well I couldn't anyway, I reckon I'd be pusing it with a tractor.

stuart45 · 27 Mar 2009

Craig,
Where I live you can get grazing land cut for free by farmers who will cut it to hay. They get to keep all the hay.

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Cutting long grass

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