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Victory Flail Mower

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#1 ·
This is my brothers setup, so excuse the tractor color.

This is a Victory brand flail mower. One of the least expensive units on the market. First delivery the unit was badly damaged so we refused delivery. Second time was the charm and came in without a scratch.

To date the unit has about 8 hours use on it and has been flawless. Appears to be made as good as anything out of China, all the steel is wicked heavy. Grease fittings are where they should be. And it runs smooth, no vibrations.

We did wrap some wire up in and locked it up, the shear bolt worked like designed and snapped before smoking the belts (all four of them).

Pretty happy with it so far. Should work great on the ditch banks and around the edges of the fields. At half the cost of the Italian brands it is worth a look...

here is the link to the unit; 64" EMID-64 Embankment Flail Mower - Victory Tractor Implements

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#3 ·
Their regular flail mowers seem like a decent design, and built-in side shift up to 18 inches. And the price is very affordable compared to the competition. What I don’t like is no pictures or detailed drawings of the rotor shaft and flail knives/cutters. How easy to change? How many, spacing?
 
#4 ·
I have a woodmax flail mower, 78" side shift model. Very happy with it. I paid more than the comparable models from this company and had an initial quality control issue on day one that I fixed myself after phone calls and emails went unanswered. It was more than just a loose bolt or two, it seized an idler and smoked the belts.

I did however type a negative review on their website a couple months later, which produced instant results, so I now have more spare parts that they sent me that I had already replaced.

Overall Woodmax seems well built for a china machine. The build quality reflects what the parent company specs of the builder

I see Baumalight now makes one. They did not when I bought mine, but I wouldn't have paid their price anyways. I do have a Baumalight 1P stump grinder and it is great, and was a reasonable price....when I bought mine

But that mower is worth a look from what I can see.

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#5 ·
The Victory mower is listed as 63" cut. w/20 spiral placed flails reading the specs.
The peruzzo 60"cut FOX Series lists 50 flails on a staggered pattern. Looks to be in 3 or 4 rows.
Victory mower is listed at about 1/2 the cost of the peruzzo. The peruzzo lists about 3/4" heavier cut capacity at 2" vs 1 1/4"
With either though maintenance should be easy standing them vertical.
 
#6 ·
The website the Victory cutters are sold on is weak, pictures are terrible, some look to be computer renderings. The unit my brother received looked good. The flail hammer count and weight is listed. So is the units weight. It isn't factory rated to take down very large material, this is a medium duty cutter, but we didnt plan on using it as a bush hog anyway, so the large diameter cut capacity wasn't a concern for us.

operating notes, a restrictor in the hydraulic lines is a good idea, controls are jumpy...
 
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#7 ·
@ridesdirt
I currently use an old 60" Ford 917 w/21 scoop type flails. I restored it about 6/8 yrs ago. It's really nice for grass, not intended for brush. Although I do cut some saplings about finger sized with it.

I'm looking to get a ditch bank flail in near future to substitute for the brushy stuff, and get into my ditches with. I appreciate you posting this model as I hadn't seen it in my research.
How wide are the flails in your mower?
 
#8 ·
@Dave in DE

I have a Bush Hog brand 96" flail I use occasionally. It works good in grass and weeds, it has the Y type blades in it. The Victory was bought for ditches and edges.

The hammer blades do work better than the Y blades, I can confirm that.