Topper Recommendations

Sugarbowl

looking for a topper to cut rushes etc before spraying them. Would prefer a topper to a mulcher. Looking at new ones, local coop stocks Fleming. Are they any good? Would they cut rushes? Any suggestions welcome

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058357718/topper-recommendations

Is this something your going to do regularly? Wouldn't buy a topper if ya weren't. Most of them are the same, but try get an offset one and not those that follow the tractor wheel that flattens what's about to be cut

50HX

Topper not a great job for rushes, disc mower for a cleaner cut

Topper is fine for buttercups & thistles imo

older by the day

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058357718/topper-recommendations

I use a 6ft single rotar for my rushes, a mower won't last in rough ground. I'm dog rough with it, I shove back dykes of briars, furse. She will crack the bolt on the drive when she come under pressure, I forward and reverse, as it makes a nicer job.

You won't get the nice finish like a perfect topper or a mower. But she will slash most of it for small money

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122317559#Comment_122317559

+1 a disc mower will leave a clean cut and you can use it for mowing down hay.

Reggie.

Thinking of getting a verge mower here for topping under hedges and road verges. Anyone any experience?

visatorro

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122318757#Comment_122318757

Did you price any of them? Seen one that you could use upright and do side of a hedge. Thought it would be a good yoke

The Nutty M

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122318757#Comment_122318757

Yes. Have the Clontrac 2.2metre one. Very handy for making quick work of mulching the sides of hedges. One thing that is needed is power.

Mr..

A verge mower will take abuse wont wont do the cleanest of cut,

Castlekeeper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122318757#Comment_122318757

Have one for years, trouble free, it's a handy out for such work and for having to cut a bit of heavy over grown ground, it would eat up a patch of briars or bracken in no to time. Do a grand job the side of a low hedge alright if there was no fence but it's no sub for a hedge cutter.

Got it 2nd hand off a Wexford man who used to specialise in them, very sound.

limo_100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122317295#Comment_122317295

Have an offset 8ft topper and tbh there not great, the do a great job cleaning out rushes and after cattle cleaning out paddocks, I have a mower as well but can't use it in all my fields some a bit rough and stoney so topper suits me there. But the offset is has its disadvantages it is very heavy and even when you come to the headlands get it hard to lift it fully off the ground also it cuts the ground up abit when taking turns the 6ft semi offset didn't do that as much.

I would like to know anyone opinion on the Wylie 9ft inline looks a great piece of kit would trade the offset but think there very expensive.

Reggie.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122323759#Comment_122323759

I've some 1 acre paddocks that I could use it on plus the roadside verge gets fairly overgrown here in the summer but the council don't go up our road.

somofagun

What direction do you men go round a field with the off set topper, ole man would have went ant-clockwise as he says it less sore on the topper, I always thought it was the wrong way.

I have kept his way and just go anti clockwise lol

J.O. Farmer

You go round so the topper is set to the inside.

Lift the topper on the corners to go easy on the topper.

whelan2

I always go clockwise here and do a damaging last run anti clockwise at the end. Eyes closed for this

Omallep2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122327665#Comment_122327665

TThe Dreaded headland run 😍

Reggie.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122328445#Comment_122328445

Not Too bad in a topper. In a mower it's a bitch

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122325562#Comment_122325562

Going anti-clockwise would make no sense as you’d be driving on the uncut ground all the time.

Castlekeeper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122328451#Comment_122328451

I always do the headlands first, but I only mow our own fields.

Dunedin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122328533#Comment_122328533

that’s what I was thinking 🤔

Jb1989

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122328784#Comment_122328784

Start in the middle and work out.

_Brian

thinking of getting a verge mulcher, I presume it would be covered on TAMS.

it would be good to keep bits tidy and topper for open grass areas.