I mowed with mine last night for the first time, (WoodMaxx with the side shift, don't have that hooked up yet so just in fixed position) just native grasses, not any kind of a lawn. As compared to my old brush hog it's much smoother and quieter in operation. Shorter coupled also, so more manuverable. By the time I remove the FEL off the L3301 (never done it, heard it's quick and easy to do) and with this flail mower, I will have a much better rig for getting in tight areas when I do my fire prevention work around the house, no lawn again just the native grass already there plus some volunteer alfalfa. My brush hog is 48" wide, this is 62", and with 4 swipes the extra width of cut really helped, no surprise I guess.
BUT, WoodMaxx has many disclaimers about running it while reversing! This surprised me, especially as the only reason they say NOT to is if there is anything you can't see and you hit it you can damage the unit. Duh.... no kidding. The disclaimers make it sound like some major mechanical problem will occur, unavoidable, making me think at first it was a basic design feature of flail mowers disallowing reverse ops. Correct me, all of you who flail while reversing, I want to walk on the wild side and not being able to reverse mow will be not so good. Otherwise I like it fine. More compact to store also BTW.
