I really dig what your doing with your product line.. Well built , customer inquiry for service , purposeful, the ability to fix it yourself , affordability and parts availability is key to product..
Nice Good to see quality English machinery have used wessex tipping trailers & a old PTO finishing mower for many years and nearly made local to me all the best with this business venter thanks again
I bought a Kellfri 5’ cut flail mower 3 years ago. It has transformed the 5acres of bracken and briar into a now beautiful grass pasture. No regrets but I’d now like a sit on mower to take it to another level with some golf course style stripes. 😎
I recently bought a Ventrac 4520 Pro with a finish cut mower and a brush hog. I will tell you that the brush hog is absolutely unstoppable. I am very impressed with its cutting ability.
It's great seeing Wessex products available here in the USA. They had another distributor, in the South if I remember right. They also had Honda engines. I suppose Honda is no longer selling those for the North American market? Flail mowers seem to be a great rough cut option and we have had brands in the past that sold product here and have gone out of business, but their mowers are still kicking right along. It's a great design.
I could see the selling point of one of these machines, even though I have tractor mounted units, most significant sized farms have an ATV because of they are lightweight and handy, easy to get around. They are much lighter than even a small tractor, if you have tight trails or wet areas, this might give you an option that you won’t have with a 3-4 ton tractor. ATV’s are a much smaller footprint, in both size and weight.
I just purchased a Wessex AFR Flail Mower and had an issue where the engine was not wanting to initially fire after assembly. It ended up being a flooded engine do to the jostling around in shipping and unloading. After contacting GWT they immediately opened a case with the vendor support and we were able to resolve the issue very quickly. Also wanted to note that this was on a Saturday late afternoon. Support from GWT and Wessex worked with me even into Sunday. I'm confident I'll be going back to them for my next purchase.
Mott made a tow behind flail mower back in the 1960’s and 1970’s that you could pull behind a garden tractor. I would have mounted the wheels behind so it doesn’t mat down the grass.
Why? It mows matted grass as well as unmatted grass. This isn't a brush hog. Plus, the weight distribution is much different with the tires behind it vs the side. This was the best way to mow soft, mucky areas with the lowest risk of sinking in.
Great pieces of equipment from design - maybe add an auto-brake system to the kill-switch system so it stops the flail rotation quickly. Seemed to take a while to wind down when it was killed, could see that still having enough inertia to do some damage for long enough for it to reach a person if they fell off and under.
Have Wessex considered making something to compete with the BCS two-wheel tractors. We ended up buying one as it was about the only thing that we could manoeuvre around in our wood as it matured.
I cant help but laugh at the Idea that this took multiple takes to film and you just walking from home to home “Can we cut your field?” Americans are definitely missing out on international products. Keep up the good work!
Would the first rotary version compare to a swisher? What I would like is wheels in front of the deck, something that allows the mowing deck to get right up against a fence
Would love to see a “mow off” in some thick stuff between this HD 5’ model and one of the Funny Tops. Assuming the Funny Top would be the winner??? Is this more for folks that don’t have a tractor, or I could be missing other uses
Question, would this work being pulled by a traditional riding lawn tractor? I have a lawn that gets mowed as needed but a marshy bit that only dries out enough to get a mower back to it after a few months of going on mowed....I was sorta picturing taking off the mower deck and pulling this with the mower?
I'm from EU. I've read the comments, thus this text. And I'm using wessex flail mower (which is the exact copy of french carroy giraudon flail mower, what is btw omitted by the guy from UK) 8th year. Absolutely non-destructable piece of machinery. Extremely well engeneered and tested, sturdy as hell. "Eats" 200cm tall grass with no problem, as well as small trees and bushes up to 2" / 60mm in diameter (at least this with 18-20-23HP engine). Heavy flail 'hammers' (350g per two) require no sharpening as they cut in general by weight x speed (this pto has 6000-8000 rev per min). Questions regarding sharpening are thus neglible. You just don't do it, it's waste of time. The fact is grass will be shattered at the ends, but don't expect golf course after one use of flail mower at 2m tall grassland. It's not designed for it.
@@hughmarcus1 Are we discussing 'opinions' or facts? Carroy has been estabilished 1920. Wessex 1962. Wessex was selling Carroy's made mowers under Wessex brand. I own one of these...
Nova tractor out of Texas sells a tow behind flail mower very similar. I own one and it SUCKS! It has eaten belts from day one with very little work and I' ve been waiting months for promised replacements!
They need a conversion kit for quick connect bobcat (or loader tractor) hookup like a forestry mulcher. What is the safety shutoff system if a wheel rides up a stump/rock/etc and it flips over?
I like the rotary mower which could replace my first generation DR tow behind. Two questions. 1. Is it possible to get the rotary mower with swing blades instead of the fixed blade? 2. Are either the rotary or flair mowers able to bust up small trees? If so what diameter? Thanks
The wheel guards on the small unit deflect grass so it’s not packed down? How? It’s already packed down by pulling unit! And the deflector doesn’t move gras away from tire track! No deflector on other models? Why not? I’ve got 4000 miles on my 2-up ATV that doesn’t have Kevlar embedded tires without any punctures to date.
Gas prices are the same as they were 14 years ago. www.statista.com/statistics/204740/retail-price-of-gasoline-in-the-united-states-since-1990/ Not bad considering how inflation has severely affected everything else. Tractors and ATV's have probably gone up 30-40% in that same time span.
@johnragan9959 I did it for years with a $6k 22hp machine, then upgraded to a larger, more expensive one with 28hp in '17. I use it like a brushhog, and also mow 15 acres of grass every week. I've taken both machines through 9 foot tall weeds, grass, and small oaks and other trees in the 1.5" range.
@@GoodWorksTractors Mechanically soooo much simpler, vastly less maintenance, no diesel fumes, can be kept charged with solar panels (so cheap to ‘fill up’). Over the life of the appliance, it will be easier to keep it running - particularly as restrictions on fossil fuels increase.
The format with the staged scripted good old boy yuk it up is to me nothing but salesman BS hype. Keep going and I see a future not unlike Everything Attachments, the height of phony.
Shop Wessex mowers here: www.goodworkstractors.com/?s=wessex
Thanks for having us! 💚
Best thing about these they seem simple and basic. Just what we need today.
These look very nice! I can see them coming in very handy to maintain deer plots and backwoods trails.
I bought a PTO tiller from Wessex this spring. Only tilled a maybe 200 m2 so far without hickups. Quality of Wessex is superb.
I really dig what your doing with your product line.. Well built , customer inquiry for service , purposeful, the ability to fix it yourself , affordability and parts availability is key to product..
Thanks Adam. Doin' our best!
I'll take one of each and two of everything.
Nice Machine's.
Thanks for sharing
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Blessings to you and your family, keep the videos coming. Band of brothers and sisters 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you sir, stay cool this summer
Nice Good to see quality English machinery have used wessex tipping trailers & a old PTO finishing mower for many years and nearly made local to me all the best with this business venter thanks again
I bought a Kellfri 5’ cut flail mower 3 years ago. It has transformed the 5acres of bracken and briar into a now beautiful grass pasture. No regrets but I’d now like a sit on mower to take it to another level with some golf course style stripes. 😎
I recently bought a Ventrac 4520 Pro with a finish cut mower and a brush hog. I will tell you that the brush hog is absolutely unstoppable. I am very impressed with its cutting ability.
This would be perfect for an area that is vert soft ground that a 3-4 k tractor could never drive over. Great idea!!
It's great seeing Wessex products available here in the USA. They had another distributor, in the South if I remember right. They also had Honda engines. I suppose Honda is no longer selling those for the North American market? Flail mowers seem to be a great rough cut option and we have had brands in the past that sold product here and have gone out of business, but their mowers are still kicking right along. It's a great design.
No Honda anymore.
Yeah. New video. Appreciate you.
Thanks for watching :)
I could see the selling point of one of these machines, even though I have tractor mounted units, most significant sized farms have an ATV because of they are lightweight and handy, easy to get around. They are much lighter than even a small tractor, if you have tight trails or wet areas, this might give you an option that you won’t have with a 3-4 ton tractor. ATV’s are a much smaller footprint, in both size and weight.
I just purchased a Wessex AFR Flail Mower and had an issue where the engine was not wanting to initially fire after assembly. It ended up being a flooded engine do to the jostling around in shipping and unloading.
After contacting GWT they immediately opened a case with the vendor support and we were able to resolve the issue very quickly.
Also wanted to note that this was on a Saturday late afternoon. Support from GWT and Wessex worked with me even into Sunday. I'm confident I'll be going back to them for my next purchase.
I forgot to thank you for my 2038R I recently purchased from GWT, I was hoping for some merch to promote GWT. But once again thank you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hope you enjoy it!
Cool looking mower
Mott made a tow behind flail mower back in the 1960’s and 1970’s that you could pull behind a garden tractor.
I would have mounted the wheels behind so it doesn’t mat down the grass.
Why? It mows matted grass as well as unmatted grass. This isn't a brush hog. Plus, the weight distribution is much different with the tires behind it vs the side. This was the best way to mow soft, mucky areas with the lowest risk of sinking in.
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Brilliant design
Oooh, Brilliant! I like these.
Appear to have great cut quality for the grass in there promo vidoes impressive machines
Outstanding information
Great pieces of equipment from design - maybe add an auto-brake system to the kill-switch system so it stops the flail rotation quickly. Seemed to take a while to wind down when it was killed, could see that still having enough inertia to do some damage for long enough for it to reach a person if they fell off and under.
Woah nice mowers ty
Have Wessex considered making something to compete with the BCS two-wheel tractors. We ended up buying one as it was about the only thing that we could manoeuvre around in our wood as it matured.
I think I will mow more often with my old mower. The price of that is a deal killer
Nice machines 👍
I cant help but laugh at the Idea that this took multiple takes to film and you just walking from home to home “Can we cut your field?”
Americans are definitely missing out on international products. Keep up the good work!
We should do that some day :)
I like this and need this 😍
MOTT MOWERS same thing we bought two of them in the early 90's made in USA.
Beautiful hardware setup! Are the engines large enough to avoid the California small engine ban?
My best recommendation is to stay away from California.
Would the first rotary version compare to a swisher? What I would like is wheels in front of the deck, something that allows the mowing deck to get right up against a fence
Interesting pice of equipment
selling my 60 inch brush hog so I can get one of these. amazing design
Could I sugest that you contact Sow The Land for a review they don't have a Tracktor and have 14 acars and a farm van
love it
Would love to see a “mow off” in some thick stuff between this HD 5’ model and one of the Funny Tops. Assuming the Funny Top would be the winner??? Is this more for folks that don’t have a tractor, or I could be missing other uses
Question, would this work being pulled by a traditional riding lawn tractor? I have a lawn that gets mowed as needed but a marshy bit that only dries out enough to get a mower back to it after a few months of going on mowed....I was sorta picturing taking off the mower deck and pulling this with the mower?
Perfect for Blueberry fields.
Looks like true beast! And I’m sure it is. But…it is a bit cumbersome. Would be a lot better if wheels would be tucked in back or front.
The wheels can be tucked in the back. They rotate.
Love it
I'm from EU. I've read the comments, thus this text. And I'm using wessex flail mower (which is the exact copy of french carroy giraudon flail mower, what is btw omitted by the guy from UK) 8th year. Absolutely non-destructable piece of machinery. Extremely well engeneered and tested, sturdy as hell. "Eats" 200cm tall grass with no problem, as well as small trees and bushes up to 2" / 60mm in diameter (at least this with 18-20-23HP engine). Heavy flail 'hammers' (350g per two) require no sharpening as they cut in general by weight x speed (this pto has 6000-8000 rev per min). Questions regarding sharpening are thus neglible. You just don't do it, it's waste of time. The fact is grass will be shattered at the ends, but don't expect golf course after one use of flail mower at 2m tall grassland. It's not designed for it.
Wessex has been around for a long time. I doubt they've copied anything.
@@hughmarcus1 Are we discussing 'opinions' or facts? Carroy has been estabilished 1920. Wessex 1962. Wessex was selling Carroy's made mowers under Wessex brand. I own one of these...
Makes me want to buy 40 acres even more!
Nova tractor out of Texas sells a tow behind flail mower very similar. I own one and it SUCKS! It has eaten belts from day one with very little work and I' ve been waiting months for promised replacements!
Should've bought a Wessex! J/K, sorry about your troubles.
Puncture resistance include locust tree thorns? That's my concerns around here.
Sure...resistant, not proof.
They need a conversion kit for quick connect bobcat (or loader tractor) hookup like a forestry mulcher.
What is the safety shutoff system if a wheel rides up a stump/rock/etc and it flips over?
Just hit the kill switch that it comes with.
What is the price range on this machines from small to large
Here you go: www.goodworkstractors.com/?s=wessex
Prices range from financing to financing plus and then financing pro
@@b16crxifyYou nailed it! That’s how it works in brains damaged world!👍
Are these built in the UK or just Assembled in th UK?
Wessex are around for years great stuff all this started out for sheep farmers and lads with cattle that cant take a tractor in
I like the rotary mower which could replace my first generation DR tow behind. Two questions. 1. Is it possible to get the rotary mower with swing blades instead of the fixed blade? 2. Are either the rotary or flair mowers able to bust up small trees? If so what diameter? Thanks
No swing blades, up to 2" diameter on the AFX
I bet it wouldn’t be fun to clean after going thru any wisteria or kudzu. Or any thick vines or bailing wire or rope.
can it be off set to one sides you don't have to run you atv or side by side through the rush constantly?
Yes, we show that in the video
I would like to see the price point of a 96 or 110 inch if possible since that is what i need for this property
*I would buy 4 of those 110 mowers today, if they were front mountable to my ATVs.* Otherwise they are just lost in the market of towable mowers.
I’m going to pull it with a dog sled team win win
The obvious questions - is there a PTO version available, is there a diesel version available?
They make 3 point linkage PTO flail mowers whether there available in the USA would be the next question hope this is helpful
When are they going put a set on that Machine. What the price.
Hey Ron, put a set of what on the machine? Pricing found here: www.goodworkstractors.com/?s=wessex
The wheel guards on the small unit deflect grass so it’s not packed down? How? It’s already packed down by pulling unit! And the deflector doesn’t move gras away from tire track! No deflector on other models? Why not? I’ve got 4000 miles on my 2-up ATV that doesn’t have Kevlar embedded tires without any punctures to date.
only if your pulling machine is the same with as the mower.
This IS better than a flail mower, which seems to be asking the wrong question. :)
with fuel this high and going up this machine almost doubles the use. although it might still be worth it just for it's usefulness.
Gas prices are the same as they were 14 years ago. www.statista.com/statistics/204740/retail-price-of-gasoline-in-the-united-states-since-1990/
Not bad considering how inflation has severely affected everything else. Tractors and ATV's have probably gone up 30-40% in that same time span.
I love how people are comparing a $6k tow behind with a $40k and up tractor and PTO attachment combination
Courtney are you moving away from the RAMMY products?
No sir. These are pull behind machines, Rammy sells front-mount. Just another quality option.
Nice product. The flail mower costs c. $8,500 which is actually not bad for that type of equipment.
Yeah, that's for the heaviest duty, biggest unit too. The rest are less.
For $ 5.000.00 plus dollars--- you can buy a good used tractor and a bush hog!!!
Sure
2nd not new
$5254.00 starting price, why not just buy a zero turn mower ?
Because it’s a completely different machine
Really,I don’t think you can cut tall field grass with a 5245 zero turn
@johnragan9959 I did it for years with a $6k 22hp machine, then upgraded to a larger, more expensive one with 28hp in '17. I use it like a brushhog, and also mow 15 acres of grass every week.
I've taken both machines through 9 foot tall weeds, grass, and small oaks and other trees in the 1.5" range.
@@throngcleaver
Which machine is this?
It is quiet cost prohibitive for an attachment considering that it have to be mobilized.
COURTNEY WITH THE GUN SHOW!
Need the weights changed over to stone, 🤣
How difficult are the flail cutters to change and if they need sharpening, how is that accomplished?
They just bolt on...sharpen like you would a mower blade.
Depending on the design of the "blades" they are self sharpening on most flails. You only have to replace then if you bend them or break em off
63" for $8,600 is little high .....
300 Kg converts to 661 Lbs.
Yeah, the 60" AFR weighs over 700 lbs.
Remote tracked mower way better
Looks like a maintenence nightmare to me.
Flail mowers have individual blades, so there is more maintenance because of that. Not terribly so. Unsure what seems like a nightmare.
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Looks like good options for folks who DONT have a pto tractor and pto mower already. Better to see some UK 🇬🇧 gear than Chinese crap 💩
SHARPENING ??????
Yep
why is the guy on the ATV wearing a helmet. ?? LOL. he's going like 5 MPH.
Be cause the video would be going against Health and Safety, use your head.
If they were electric, they might be worth considering. As is, hard pass.
Why?
@@GoodWorksTractors Mechanically soooo much simpler, vastly less maintenance, no diesel fumes, can be kept charged with solar panels (so cheap to ‘fill up’). Over the life of the appliance, it will be easier to keep it running - particularly as restrictions on fossil fuels increase.
Stupid design...far too expensive for what it is.
The format with the staged scripted good old boy yuk it up is to me nothing but salesman BS hype. Keep going and I see a future not unlike Everything Attachments, the height of phony.
next time we'll have AI read to you from the manual!
Are you sure you , you understood all that yourself.