Field Toppers

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littleshetland

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Just thinking ahead to the grass growing season.
OH and I are thinking of getting a quad bike to help maintain our 8 acres . Does anyone have experience of towing a motorised topper behind a quad bike?
We’re thinking of a quad because of maintaining the arena, it’s 40 x 20 so easier to get in the corners than a tractor. We’re hoping a good quad would be a good all round ‘work horse’ for general pasture and arena maintenance, but OH has reservations about motorised toppers for the paddocks. Your opinions and experiences would be most welcome….
 
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We use an old lawn tractor to tow a Harrow & motorised topper. The mowing part of the lawn tractor has long since died, its got no value therfore unlikely to be stolen like a quad.
It's less powerful than a quad but does the job. If you can keep a quad secure it will do the job easily
 
You won't regret getting a quad. I really didn't want OH to get one as I thought it wouldn't get used, but he proved me wrong and it's used at least once a week. And I'm heart broken when it isn't working. I've insured ours as I'm paranoid about it getting stolen.

We have a chain harrow and a trailer for ours. My friend had a petrol flayer/topper which she only used a handful of times and then sold on for half the money. So I'd suggest to look at the second hand market for value for money.
 
We have a motorised topper, can't remember the name of It. To be honest I only use it once (maybe twice) a year but it's so good to have the equipment there when the time/field is dry is right
 
Go for a good quality topper, we have a Logic flail topper and it's really robust. We had a Quad X mower bought new and I wasn't impressed. Our fields are flat but going over very slightly uneven ground one of the blades tore the top casing. The electric start also broke after minimum use too.
 
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