ALIBABA - Chinese made WIGON WG EM600 Flail Mower test on a cheap Chinese Mini Excavator #alibaba

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Hello everybody and welcome back to the farm. My name is Dave and I'm very excited today to show you this video about a new piece of equipment that has just turned up for my mini excavator.

[00:00:20]Right, let's have a look at this new piece of equipment. And it is a flail mower. Very small one. It's only 600 mm wide or 2 ft wide. And it has been designed and built especially to fit onto a mini excavator. And it was shipped directly from China. You can see the wooden crate in the background there. I can't see a lot of detail on the shipping information there. It's all in Chinese. I can see another label next to it here that I guess that is the model number of this unit. And the manufacturer is Wigan W.

[00:00:53]And what we'll do later in the video, we'll actually go on to their website if they have one and check out the specs for this unit and to see if there's any other equipment that we can make that may suit a mini excavator. Now, this unit was shipped in that box. Obviously, there are a couple of other components that were also in the box. I have this funny looking mounting head assembly here that sort of moves side to side.

[00:01:16]That unit actually then bolts up to the top of here.

[00:01:21]And then on top of this unit here bolts the mounting plate that has the pins here. These are 25 mm pins or 1in pins.

[00:01:31]And they're they're going to be okay.

[00:01:34]They're going to fit on my mini excavator. Next to it, I have a couple of hoses here, hydraulic hoses. These go from the hydraulic motor and then attached to my mini excavator. What else came in the box was a packet package of um nuts and bolts here. So, I'm just looking at the top. What's on that one there? You can see 8.8.

[00:02:00]So, I'm guessing that's a high tensile bolt. Looks to be a reasonable quality.

[00:02:04]And a nyllock nut there as well. So, there's a bag of those to mount everything up. The other thing that came in the box was extra I don't know what you call these. Is it a hammer? Is that what you call it? I'm not up to speed with terminology on flail mowers. Is that called a hammer?

[00:02:25]They are already mounted on the unit, but there is a bag here with some extra ones there in case they're needed. Now, also in the box is this. They call it a user manual, but it's really only about eight pages of information. And really there's only one page in there that is important and that's the specifications page. And I'm just reading down here at the column on here. It's got the one for our 600 mm machine. So at the top there it says that the uh excavator machinery that it suits is8 to 2 ton. It's an eight hammer blade system or 16 Y and eight straight blades. It needs a flow rate of 10 to 25 L a minute. Motor speed is a,000 to 2 and a half thousand revs a minute.

[00:03:11]Working pressure 18 MPa and the weight of the unit you see there is 120 kilo.

[00:03:18]Now I just want to make it perfectly clear at the start of this video that I don't actually own this flower mower. I didn't purchase it. It was bought online by a subscriber friend of mine that lives very close nearby to me and he ordered it online from the Chinese company direct and they shipped it to his address. Now I've picked it up from him and he has asked me to unbox it and to assemble the unit and to put it on my mini excavator and give you an honest review on my thoughts on how well it works.

[00:03:51]Just looking now at the overall build quality of the machine and I think actually it looks pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. It was very well packaged. So, there's no damage to the unit. There's no dents or scratches or um paint chips or anything missing to it. The finish in this gray looks quite nice. And I'm thinking um the owner did say that when you purchase it, you did have a selection of colors that you could have whether that's important or not. Looking at the front here, I can tell you as a sign maker, these stickers here are look like they're good quality.

[00:04:19]It's a very thick material, which is good, and I think they will actually stay on there for quite a long time.

[00:04:24]These nuts and bolts that I just talked about here that are either a silver or a zinc plated or something or other, you can see in here that they've got a silver bolt and a silver nyllock nut.

[00:04:35]Now, one thing I have noticed on these machines, for whatever reason, they tend to use a lot of just mild steel flat washers. And if I just come down to here and just point out this particular one here, you might be able to see that that steel flat washer under there is actually starting to rust already. And that the actual bolts in the bottom here are actually just a black steel. So they will probably rust as well. Now on the side, you can see that there's a grease point here. This is the main um grease point for the main drive spindle that's inside. There's a grease point there.

[00:05:08]There's also another grease point at the back here for the rear roller. And we'll have a look at that when I tip it up on its side. On the front here, you can see it's got very nice uh I guess they're chrome or zinc or something changed at the minute. How long they stay looking like that, I don't know. Um it's not a bad length. It doesn't go all the way down to the ground. You can see that there's a bit of a gap there. So, there might be the potential for something to fly out from from under there. on the top here. You can see this mounting rail here where we'll um put our top unit on to bolt onto there. You can see that there's a number of options there. A number of holes, but I'm thinking that the unit will have to be sort of placed up this end because you can see with that um pump and stuff here that most of the weight is going to be on the right hand side here. On this end of the unit, you can see behind this cover is the drive belt. And I'm not too sure if it's a single or a double drive belt. I'm not too sure. So, this connects to the hydraulic motor that's up the back there. And then the belts run down to the spindle that has the hammers on it.

[00:06:14]I can see that there's another grease point that's through there. And on the top here, this must be the adjuster for the tension for the belt.

[00:06:23]Looking at the back of the machine, you can see here the hydraulic pump. It's actually got a stamp on there that says Wigan. So, I'm not too sure whether we're going to make their own pumps or not. The input assembly and valve assembly here. This is the connection that connects to the mini excavator to the outside. And this is the fluid in connector here. I do notice that there's a looks like a pressure control adjustment here with an Allen key on the top of it. I'm not sure how that works and if you can adjust it. There are certainly no instructions on how you adjust it. And I noticed on the out valve here that it's got this L piece here that spins around and goes back into the drive motor. And I'm not too sure what this is. I'm thinking it might be some sort of safety system if the drive gets stuck like it hits a rock or a stump or a stick or something and it um stops very quickly whether it pushes that liquid back down through the pump as some sort of safety feature.

[00:07:26]On the bottom, on the rear side, you can see this big black roller here that sort of sits on the ground level. These two green caps have a grease fitting inside.

[00:07:36]So, they will have to be greased up before we use it.

[00:07:41]Looking under the machine, you can see that big black roller at the back there and then the spindle that actually has the flail hammers on it. So, this little machine only has eight of the hammers on it. And I do notice looking at it that there seems to be quite a bit of movement in them. I suppose that doesn't really matter.

[00:08:01]And I'm just looking at the design there and I do apologize. I don't know a lot about how flail mowers work, but I'm thinking with the shape of that foot there that the machine will have to operate in like a clockwise direction to be able to cut properly. Now, I think the owner of this machine when he ordered it from the factory requested that they put on these particular feet cuz this is mainly made for getting into heavy brush and sticks and quite heavy ground. It's um certainly I've seen some of these flail mowers that instead of this type of foot, they have more of like a Yshaped ones that hang down um for a different use I would imagine.

[00:08:42]Now, there were two things that I was thinking about when I first saw this machine sitting in the box. And the first one was the weight of it. Now, we see by the spec sheet that this flail mower weighs 120 kilos. Now, I'm using the UHI um 12 machine with an operating weight of 1.2 ton. Now, if we remember that the safe working limit or the S SWL of the machine is 10% of the operating weight, then this 120 kilo unit should work fine with my 1.2 ton mini excavator.

[00:09:15]However, I would be a little bit concerned on putting this on a very small excavator like a8 or even a one ton machine on how well it would go. The other thing I was thinking about was the flow rate that is needed to drive this flower mower. It said in the spec sheets that we just looked at that it will operate on 18 to 25 L a minute. Now, I'm pretty sure my mini excavator puts out 24 L a minute from a single pump. Now, in theory, all that sounds fine that I should be able to spin this up to the required speed. But when you're actually using it on the mini excavator, you'll be moving the house and the arm around as you mow. You may even be sort of tracking in and tracking back as you're using it. Now, I'm thinking every time I try and use those controls, it's going to reduce the flow going to the flail mower and it might slow down.

[00:10:11]Now, this mounting block bolts to the top of our flail mower, but I'm not too sure exactly how it works because this top bit slides backwards and forwards, and there's no dampening or anything on this. And I'm not sure exactly what it does. I think it could be some sort of safety feature, is it? That if you're mowing and you're you hit a rock or a log or something, does this sort of knock the machine back a little bit? I'm not too sure.

[00:10:36]Now, this top mounting plate here comes with the 25 mm or 1in pins. And I think this will do up to about 1.5 tons. I think a 1.7 ton machine starts to use the 30 mm size pin. So, you may have to order a different pin set depending on what machine you want to go onto. But one thing I did notice is they has this interesting spacer in here that is actually made for whatever size pins you have that just fits back in that block there. there. And I thought that was a pretty pretty nifty way of doing it.

[00:11:09]Right, I'm just going to put the first piece on the top here and I line up my holes and then get this bolted on. The diagram here shows the mounting plate with one empty hole next to it. So, I think what I'll do is up here I have my mounting plate and a hole just there. So, I think this is in about the right position for the weight. And I'm going to put my bolts in from the inside out because on the pump side there's no room to put the bolt in there.

[00:12:11]All that has been bolted onto the flail mower. So the center plate here has been bolted onto here. And then on top of that is this top plate that has the mounting pins here that attach to the mini excavator. So when the operator is actually using this unit, their angle is sort of like this. They're looking along the length of the unit and the discharge is on the side here down there. So there's no chance that the operator is going to get hit with rocks or sticks.

[00:12:44]Okay. Okay, I've just um taken the side plate off here so you can get an idea of the belt drive system on this. So, this does use belts to actually drive the blades underneath. And it does in fact have two belts in here. I don't know whether you can actually see that. I took it off mainly just to check the tension and it's got about a 1 cm bit under half an inch movement in the belt.

[00:13:07]So, I think that'll be fine. I actually also have just been around here and checked all these little Allen key bolts here to make sure all those were tight.

[00:13:17]And I can say that they were. Now, normally when you buy a piece of Chinese equipment, the first thing you should do is check all the nuts and bolts cuz they'll either be loose or they'll might have some missing, but I can say having looked over this whole machine and checked every nut and bolt on it, every everything was tight on this particular machine, which is good. You can see here the adjustment system here. And this is a sealed bearing in here. It's actually got some numbers on it, which is good.

[00:13:45]Um, and it's got a circlip here. So, you could pop that circlip off and replace that bearing if you needed to. And the adjustment is just by these two um, bolts and threaded rod system um, up the top here on these um, nuts.

[00:14:00]Sorry. So, that all looks quite good.

[00:14:02]Um, I've just put a bit of grease in that grease point there and uh, on the other side. So, it's all greased up now.

[00:14:08]All the nuts and bolts and little Allen key head things are all checked. So, I think the next thing is to try and get it onto the ground and see how it fits onto the end of the excavator.

[00:14:22]Well, I've just moved my mini excavator here over and lifted the unit down onto the ground there. It was up on the back of my little truck here, but I didn't want to try and get it on the arm in case it fell off as I moved it off the truck. So, I just use this bit of chain here to wrap it around it to get it onto the ground. And now I'm going to attempt to try and get it onto the end of the stick here because on my machine, I don't know if you can see in there, I have a uh like a quick attach system.

[00:14:54]Now, you may have one of those on your machine, you may have a hydraulic hitch on your machine, or you may have nothing on your machine. You might just have the pins. So, if you had the pins um like this, you'd have to take those two pins out there and then attach it with these pins here. But this um quick attach normally works okay. But what I found is um when I'm just using buckets and things like that is that sometimes I cheat a little bit and if it's a lightweight bucket, I'll just lift the bucket up and put it on the front hook and then swing it back and then wind the uh wind the bolt out to lock it in. But with something like this that weighs 120 kilos, you can't do that obviously. So, I'm going to have to try and uh work out how to do it on the ground.

[00:15:39]Trouble is there's not a lot of movement or gap between the two spacer blocks on the outside there. You can see I've almost got to get it within a couple of mil.

[00:16:00]What's it doing now? What happens there if I then try and curl around? Can I do that?

[00:16:22]No, I missed it. I think that's the right idea.

[00:16:32]Oh, yeah. I think I've got it.

[00:16:36]Now I've just got to swing it back so I can get the rear thing in the back. Let's have a look how I can do that. I'm thinking it's all attached properly. So, let's see if we can lift it up.

[00:16:55]Oh, yeah.

[00:17:01]Let's move it around a little bit.

[00:17:07]extend it out.

[00:17:14]Yeah.

[00:17:16]Now, I've just got the machine idling here um just sort of to see if it's going to carry the weight. But it looks all right, doesn't it?

[00:17:31]Up and down.

[00:17:33]You can certainly feel that it's got weight on it.

[00:18:10]Now I have got my blade, my dozer blade sitting on the ground to give me a bit of extra support.

[00:18:18]Let me just uh put it down on the ground and then um try that maybe.

[00:18:28]So that's on the ground. If I lift my blade up, try lift it up now.

[00:18:39]Certainly notice the weight.

[00:18:53]All right. Well, I think it's attached.

[00:18:56]So, the next thing is to um hook up the hoses and get it spinning. I think the two hoses that come with the flow mower are both exactly the same.

[00:19:09]And each hose has different ends on it.

[00:19:11]So, one end has a 90° like this on it, and the other end has a straight connector on it like that. I don't think it really matters which hose you use um for the in and out. So, I'm just going to use this one. And I'm going to put the 90° bend here. I'm going to put it on the front side. So, the first thing I'm going to do is just to take off the yellow protector here.

[00:19:38]And that. And then I'm just going to hook this into the inside of my pump here.

[00:19:47]Well, I've just run into my first problem, and that is that I'm trying to um join up to my quick connect here that I use on my UHI machine. And I know that on the bottom here that this thread is a metric, I think it's a M8 L, a metric 8 light for memory. Or is it a five?

[00:20:10]Anyway, um but the hose it won't connect to. So, I'm thinking that the hose itself must be a BSB fitting. So, I'll have to duck up to the hydraulic store and see if I can get a different adapter.

[00:20:25]This is what I had to track down. So, this is called a nipple. And on one side here, it has a 3/8 BSB thread that goes into my quick connects. And on this side over here, it's got a 1/4 in BSB that'll go onto my hose.

[00:20:42]Now, if you're using a quick disconnect like I have on this block, you may find with the pressure that's built up behind here that it's you can't actually release the locking ring here. There's too much pressure behind it. So, what I tend to do is if the diverter here is actually blocked off, so there's no flow coming through it. I'll actually get in here with a spanner and just very lightly loosen that off. And that just takes some of the pressure out. And now when you put the other connector in here, you can actually push this up quite easily and get that in. And then it locks.

[00:21:17]And I just go back and nip that up a little bit.

[00:21:21]And you'll see there that no oil or anything came out. It's all pretty good.

[00:21:26]And then the last step is obviously to turn the flow back the right way. And we're ready to go.

[00:21:34]Right. I'll just do the same procedure with the outside going back to my excavator. I'll just put this on the end.

[00:21:47]And then just connect it the same same way.

[00:21:54]That's locked in.

[00:21:57]That's good. and open that diverter up.

[00:22:04]And we're right to go, I think. Now, I get a lot of questions about why I have two female um quick connects on my valve body here.

[00:22:13]Why don't I have a female on one side and a male on the other side? And my simple answer is it's a lot cleaner to have these these rubber plugs here will stay in there a lot tighter and keep that fitting a lot cleaner than if I had a male fitting there. These rubber plugs in the male variety always um stretch and fall off and then it leaves the whole fitting exposed and it can also get damaged as well. So that's why I have two female.

[00:22:44]Okay. I am I think I'm all plumbed in and ready to go to test the flow. So on my machine, my auxiliary is powered by this. So there's a pedal that goes down and goes up. And I've got it configured so when I push down on this pedal that the flow will start the flow mower.

[00:23:07]And here we go.

[00:23:12]So I can hear it rumbling. I guess it's spinning.

[00:23:17]I don't know how fast it's actually spinning.

[00:23:22]Okay, test number one is to try it out just in this really thick grass here.

[00:23:28]You probably can't get an idea. It's probably about a foot high. It's just grass. It hasn't got any sticks or anything in it, but I have difficulty in mowing this with my normal mower. So, I thought we'll give this a go and uh see how it handles this. First off, I'm going to try and get the machine about flat and maybe just above sort of height here.

[00:24:13]Put it right on the ground. Maybe Heat. Heat.

[00:25:05]Heat. Heat.

[00:25:28]seems to just flatten the grass down. It doesn't actually seem to be cutting it.

[00:25:32]But again, maybe these are the wrong blades for for trying to cut grass. I'm not too sure.

[00:25:40]So, if I have a look at the area where I've been through, I don't know if it's actually cutting it or just dropping it down. It seems that the grass is still quite long there. But again, that could be the blades that I've got on it as well that aren't the right sort of blades for cutting it. But I it's not uh it's not great.

[00:26:26]Now, if I was in the market to buy one of these flail mowers, I would probably buy it to do something like this. So, I've got a a fence around my dam and inside the fence is really hard to cut and normally I have to climb in here with my whipppper snipper and try and cut it, which is quite hard when it gets overgrown like this. So, this will be this will be a decent test whether this machine would actually cut something like this. It's pretty thick, but um yeah, we'll give it a bass. So, I'll start it running.

[00:27:06]So, it's running.

[00:27:12]Give it some more throttle.

[00:27:30]Go a bit lower maybe.

[00:27:49]Yeah. I don't know.

[00:27:54]I think that's running in the right direction.

[00:28:08]It appears that when it gets quite thick that the uh blades just stop turning.

[00:28:16]it gets sort of overpowered by the the grass and just stops turning.

[00:28:30]So, I've just run this machine for about the last 20 minutes and as you saw there, the first time I tried it was on the grass and it tended to struggle a bit in there and I'm not too sure if it's because of the blades on here were having some effect that it's not ideal.

[00:28:45]I moved on and then found a little um thistle that was growing in the grass and knocked that off no problem at all.

[00:28:51]And then I tried it on the side of my dam here. And this is the ideal area where I think something like this would come into play. It's overgrown. It's got thick grass. It's got weeds. It's got blackberries growing in there. And I think that would be the ideal test for this. Now, this is a a great scenario where you can actually reach over the fence with the arm and drop the machine down and then run it along to try and clear it out. What I found is as soon as the um flail mower got into anything that was remotely thick, it would almost completely stop straight away and I'd have to lift the machine up and then start it again, get it spinning and then drop it down slowly and it would sort of cut for a little bit and then completely stop. I don't know. Um, I, as I said earlier on in this video, when I've seen flail mowers, I've actually seen them without this roller on the side, just chains down this side and chains down this side and different sort of feet or hammers on it. So, you can actually swing either way. What I found the problem with this one was because of this big roller here, as soon as you go over the material, it seems to be knocked down and stays down because this roll is actually pressing it down and then it doesn't come back up to get a second bite at it. So, um I don't think there's a great fault with the actual flow mower. I think the problem actually lies with the machine that it physically doesn't put out enough um pressure out of the pump. And what I found is um even when I was sort of rotating the house and trying to swing side to side, you could physically hear that the flow was slowing down a lot. If you're in one spot and didn't touch any of the controls on the actual mini excavator and just ran the full flow to the fl mower, it did did appear to be running a little bit faster and worked a little bit better. But this is targeted for these machines. And the problem with these machines is they only have a single pump. I would think this would be ideal if it was on a machine that was either a little bit bigger or had additional hydraulic pumps. And I'm just trying to think. Um I did look at one last year. I think it was a Bobcat um E18 or a 1.8 ton Bobcat machine. And I think when I looked up the specs for that, it actually had three hydraulic pumps. So, it's got a pump for the traction, uh, drive motors, um, and then additional pumps just to run the ancillaries and the things like a flow mower on the front. I think if you had this on one of those machines, then it would be a completely um, different result.

[00:31:32]All right. Well, after using it initially, I think what I'll do is go back to the owner and uh tell him what's been happening with the machines and uh maybe show him some of these video shots. And I think what I might get him to do is actually get in contact with the manufacturers of this flail mower and um ask a couple of questions to see whether it is adjustable because this fitting here looks very much like a pressure adjustment fitting to me. It looks similar to other ones that I've seen on other hydraulic systems. And I'm just wondering if you take that lock nut out and play around with that Allen key bolt that's in there, whether it might actually adjust the pressure and make the machine run a little bit faster. I think it needs to go a lot faster.

[00:32:19]The trouble is there uh there is no flywheel system in there, so as soon as it hits something quite thick, it just tends to sort of stop and slow down. and um bogs down. But that's the uh just the design of the system. I certainly think if there was more flow coming into it, I don't think it's running at like a,000 RPM. I'd be very surprised if it's running like that. I think it's to me, just to my ear, it sounds like a PTO drive of about 500, maybe 540. But I don't know. It just sounds slow to me.

[00:32:50]And it's got no warmth. It just doesn't sort of cut through the cut through the uh cut through the thick stuff. So, you know, when I put it in here, I mean, it looks like it's flat because it has actually just been pushed down by that roller at the back. And um yeah, it's certainly not ideal. It's not doing the job that I think it should do.

[00:33:11]Anyway, we'll go back to the uh manufacturer and go back to the owner and see if they can give us any um insight to what we may be able to do to make this run a little bit better.

[00:33:24]Well, hello everybody and welcome back.

[00:33:27]It's now two days later and in those last two days, I've been emailing the owner of this particular flail mower who has in turn been forwarding those emails on to the manufacturer. I've also sent the manufacturer directly a video of this in operation of what we just saw trying to cut the grass and then also trying to cut around my dam area. Now, the manufacturer has come back and said um that they don't believe that the machine's not running properly or running at the right speed. They initially said that the piping was reversed, that I've actually managed somehow to pipe the machine backwards and the machine is actually running in reverse. That was followed by another email saying, "No, actually that's wrong." Because the system they use in their valve body only has a one-way valve and the machine, if it runs, can only run in the proper direction.

[00:34:20]So, uh, they've asked to get another video of the machine running to confirm it is running in the right direction, which I know it is. So, what I'm going to do is set my camera up here. I can actually change the settings of my video camera a bit and shoot it at higher speed and just to show them again and confirm again that the um, unit is actually traveling in the right direction, but it is just not traveling fast enough to um, cut properly. The other thing I think I'm going to try is on the actual um where the pipes go into the valve diverter on my mini excavator. I've got it running through some disconnect couplers and I'm going to take those couplers out of play and just try and plum the pipes directly into the diverter and see whether that may increase any of the flow. All right, I've got my camera set up here now and I've got it running on quite a high shutter speed. So, if you can't actually see the direction it's spinning, I'm hopefully that I can slow it down in the edit to actually show you. What I'm going to do is just push my pedal down to start it, but I'm not going to push it all the way down. I'm just going to sort of try and pump it so it will give you an idea of the direction we're going. So, if I just do this, can you see that?

[00:35:53]So that is traveling in the right direction. If I try and go the other direction, you can see that it doesn't run. So it obviously does have some sort of valve in the hydraulic um drive of this machine. So it will only run in one direction.

[00:36:13]I have swapped the hoses around. I've swapped them on the pump side. I've swapped them on the excavator side. And the speed seems to be the same. I didn't pick anything up there. So, my last option is to what I've done here is I've taken out my quick couplers in here and just put the hose directly into the diverter block with that um step down nipple there from 3/8 BSB down to 1/4 in BSB. So, now I'm going to try that to see if that makes any difference.

[00:36:47]Okay, so the mods that I've just made, I've changed all the hoses around to check if there was any difference in the speed that it was running at, and it made no difference at all. I have confirmed that it will only run in the proper direction, which is um out towards where those chains are.

[00:37:06]A change I've just made is I've removed the um quick disconnect coupling out of the uh diverter block and I've put the pipes directly into the diverter block.

[00:37:17]Now I'll give it as much revs as I can and I'll start it.

[00:37:27]Now I'm not using any other controls.

[00:37:29]I'm not using the swing or the drive motors. All of that flow should be going down to there. Now, when I lower this into this pile of old prunings and twigs and leaves, it should rip this thing apart.

[00:37:56]All I've laid down Yeah, there it stopped.

[00:38:30]So, let's just have a look of what it had here. So, this is the type of stuff I was trying to cut. These small little twigs, they're all dried out, so they should sort of break up straight away. Some leaves. And all it has done is sort of scraped some of the bark off here. It actually hasn't sort of got in there. I would imagine, well, I was hoping for what it would do as soon as I lowered it into here that this whole pile of stuff would sort of explode and start to break up, but uh it didn't happen. I've got another little demonstration here to show you. So, let's imagine for a minute that we are on a gravel road like we are here and onto the side where the grass is is it's very overgrown. There's lots of bushes. There's could be sticks and stuff in there. And I just want to clean down the side of this path here. So, let's just imagine that that's the operation we want to do. I've got the flow mower that's out to the side here.

[00:39:26]You can see it's 90° to the machine.

[00:39:29]Okay, let's jump on board.

[00:39:37]Okay, let's go full power much as it'll go.

[00:39:44]Now, start my flail mower.

[00:39:47]So, my foot's pressed.

[00:39:51]And now, let's say I want to very slowly track along this road with the flail mower moving.

[00:40:00]And as soon as I do this, and I'm going very slowly, the flow mower has almost stopped.

[00:40:08]Now to show you that again, let me just bring this up uh in a very unsafe procedure.

[00:40:18]I'll bring it up so you can actually see the underside of the motor. Okay, so same thing again. Full revs, flails starting.

[00:40:30]Then I'm just going to push my drive motors a little bit forward.

[00:40:37]And you'll see that that almost slows down to a stop. It's spinning, but very, very slowly. I stop moving, the revs build up again.

[00:40:49]Now, this is running flat out. If I actually run this probably about the normal speed that I would run this machine, if I try that again, the flail is almost stopped completely.

[00:41:04]It's not going very fast at all. So, after trying those minor modifications and then also um trying to cut some of those um old sticks and branches that I had laying on the ground there, you could see that for me, this unit still isn't operating effectively on my particular mini excavator. Now, I've said it before that I think the machine itself, the flail mar itself is a quality unit and I think it's well built. I just think maybe somewhere that the specifications that they say is not quite correct because it does say for this particular model, the 600 millimeter or 2 ft wide model that it should work on a flow as little as 10 L a minute and I don't think it does. My UHI um 12 machine when I bought it, the specs on the spec sheet said that it put out 24 L a minute flow out of the pump.

[00:42:01]Now, since I've been back, I actually just checked and I'll put a graphic up here on the website last night for that machine and it now says that that machine puts out about 18 lers a minute.

[00:42:11]I don't know why they would put a smaller pump on these machines, but anyway, let's say it is 18 and it's not 24. At 18 L a minute, it should still spin this flail mower if it's designed to run down to 10. Now, I'm talking about running the mower without any other of the other controls being used on the mini excavator. Just having this thing running by itself and then just dropping it down onto something, it still doesn't seem to be effective in mulching and cutting as it should be. I would go as far as to say that if you have a UHI machine like I do, so I've got a 1.2 ton machine and I've looked up the specs of the one ton machine, the 1.2, 2 and the 1.5. And it seems to um seems to be that they've got the same spec of oil pump all putting in about 18 L a minute. So I would I would go as far as to say that if you have a one-tonon machine, a 1.2 or a 1.5 ton machine in the UHI or probably even the rhinoceros brand as well that your machines will not run this flail mower effectively to be any good. I think you really need to jump up to a bigger size. That's just what I found in using it on my particular machine.

[00:43:29]And I've got to say that the person that owns this particular flower mower, I'm not exactly sure how big their machine is. I think it may be a 1.5. So, it may even work on their machine. It's not a UHI, it's a different brand. But what I'll do is just on the side here, I'll actually put up the details I've got here on um how to purchase the machine or the website. So, it was purchased from Alibaba. It was purchased directly from China through the manufacturer site. Now, the owner of this particular unit said that when he purchased it only about a month ago, I'm thinking in the price he mentioned was about 12 or $1,300 to buy the machine. And that's the Australian dollars. And the shipping was about $500 to get it delivered to a home address here near where I am in the Hunter Valley. So, let's say $1,900, something like that. Now, I've been playing around with this particular flower M for the last couple of weeks, and I don't want to sort of continue it on and have this video go on and on and on. So, I think I'm going to sort of call time on this video for the minute.

[00:44:32]And hopefully, I can hang on to this flower mower for another couple of weeks, and maybe in that time I can play around with it. Maybe there is something that I can do to it to make it run faster. Maybe the manufacturer will come back to me with some ideas on how it may work with my particular machine. I'm a little bit disappointed when I first saw it. Um, I really liked it. I like the quality of it. I was worried about the weight of the machine. Um, but on my particular 1.2 ton mini excavator, it seemed to use it okay. It was a little bit tippy. I would have concerns about using it on something like a one ton machine or a 0.8 ton machine. I think that would be right borderline.

[00:45:12]And um, the other concern I had when I initially saw it was of course would my machine drive it? And as we've seen, there seems to be some issue there where there doesn't seem to be enough capacity in the pump to be able to drive it and make it work as it should. And a big thank you to everybody who has been watching the videos and supporting the channel. I really do appreciate it. Stay safe on the farm in whatever you're doing. And I'll see you next time. Bye for now.