Arm-mounted flail mower
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An articulated arm that carries a mulching head and walks it along a verge.
Its usual carrier is not an excavator:
it is a tractor.
Other names for this tool: verge flail mower, pruning arm, verge mulcher, arm-mounted brush cutter.
- Family
- Maintaining green spaces
- Classes (t)
- All
- Coupler
- All, by plate
- Power source
- Hydraulic, continuous function — flow and pressure: we calculate it with you for your machine
What it is for
Right: on an excavator, only the mulching head is fitted at the end of the arm.
What sets it apart:
it exists to give the tractor a sideways reach — the excavator already has one.
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The mulch falls back on the spot, there is nothing to pick up.
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Let us say it frankly, because it is useful to know:
the flail mower is first of all a farm tractor attachment. The offset arm exists to give the tractor a sideways reach it does not have, and the tractor moves forward continuously while the head works.
It is that pairing that makes the output over a long length.
On an excavator, the machine's arm is already the flail mower's arm:
what fits at the end is the mulching head alone.
You gain in accessibility — the bottom of a ditch, a steep bank, the back of a crash barrier — and you lose in length treated per day.
The two carriers do not replace one another:
they complement one another.
Comparing the output of a flail mower on a tractor with that on an excavator makes no sense. The tractor moves forward without stopping;
the excavator repositions itself.
If your need is a long, regular, clear length, tell us:
we will tell you that the excavator is not the right carrier. See the agricultural trade.
On which machine?
They exist for machines from 1 to 25 t.
For example, on a 5 to 10 t excavator, the weight is generally from 190 to 650 kg.
The flail mower fits an excavator or a tractor.
It is mounted via a mounting plate, on all couplers.
The excavator class or the tractor power, and the coupler system: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What the tool does
This arm-mounted flail mower is used for maintaining green spaces.
For example, for a cutting width of 1 050 mm: weight from 190 to 480 kg.
Reaches, height over the hedge, cutting diameter, working width and weight: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What is needed on the hydraulic side
The flail mower runs hydraulically, on a continuous function, or from the tractor's power take-off.
It generally needs from 20 to 160 l/min, at a pressure from 170 to 250 bar, depending on the size of the machine.
The flow, the pressure and the rotor power: we calculate them with you for your machine.
Figures taken from 16 models on the market.
Your study sets the exact value for your machine.
Don't have these figures?
A photo of the machine is enough to start.
Have your machine checked.
Tell us which carrier you have, the annual length to be maintained and what makes it difficult:
ditches, banks, obstacles.
If the tractor is the right choice, we will tell you so.
- Your machine Its make and its tonnage.
- The auxiliary circuit Its flow in l/min, its pressure in bar, single- or double-acting.
- The coupler in place Its system and its class.
- The work The use, and the material.
Without these details, the study still begins: we will ask you for them.
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Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.
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Rotary mulcher and flail mower
Principle — a flail or hammer rotor, mounted directly at the end of the excavator arm.
Use — it reaches the bottom of a ditch, a steep bank or the back of a crash barrier, where the tractor cannot go. -
Forestry mulching head
Principle — a heavy rotor mounted on the excavator, made for wood rather than for verge grass.
Use — it opens a right-of-way or reclaims overgrown land, and what it mulches stays on the ground as chips.
What determines the choice
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01 — The carrier actually available
A tractor, an excavator, a municipal tool carrier:
the answer changes completely according to what you already have. -
02 — The nature of the length of work
A clear, regular verge, or ditches, banks and difficult points:
that is what separates the two carriers. -
03 — The head fitted at the end
Flails, discs, saws:
the arm is only a support, it is the head that decides the result. - 04 — The hydraulics required A head turns continuously, and an arm with several controls calls for more than a single circuit.
What is checked before ordering
- The carrier, before anything else On an excavator, the fitting is done with a mounting plate and is checked machine by machine.
- The number of hydraulic circuits available Driving the head and controlling the arm do not share a single circuit.
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Stability on a cross slope
A tool offset on a bank shifts the centre of gravity:
the load chart is read at maximum reach. -
The working window
Nesting periods, local orders, the authority's specification:
they are settled with the client.
- Family
- Maintaining green spaces
- Trade
- Railways
- Compatibility
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