How much HP for a 15 ft Batwing

draftx · Sep 18, 2016

Could a Ford 5610 handle one on fairly flat land. Just mowing grass and weeds. Thanks

Determined · Sep 18, 2016

Trimming your front lawn probably work fine.
Mowing a ditch full of damp weeds no.
I have bogged down a 60 HP diesel with a 6 foot finishing mower.

ptfarmer · Sep 18, 2016

You are around the minimum hp for a 15' batwing, as long as you don't let the grass, and weeds get too tall/thick you should be ok.

matthies · Sep 18, 2016

State dept. around here used 6610's, also 885 CaseIH's, just not as fast.

JD Seller · Sep 18, 2016

Well anything larger than lawn grass and your going to not have enough HP. We use a 100 HP on a batwing just mowing corn stalks and can bring it to it's knees in tough stalks.

Mac AR · Sep 18, 2016

I've pulled a 10' hog with an M Farmall, and
had an 8 footer on my 300. In both cases I
needed more power, and I was just cutting
pasture and small bushes. I'm afraid the
5610 just won't have the torque you need for
a 15' cutter. I might try to find a 10 or 12
foot model if I were you. But, I'm not so my
advice here is worth exactly what you paid
for it.
Mac

petetx · Sep 18, 2016

Don't know exactly where you are but ran one for years with a farmaall 504, and the other one with a 4000 ford I am south of Houston.

LAA · Sep 18, 2016

I use a 14' bat wing with a ford 5600 to mow pastures, I have bogged it down and killed the tractor but I was running too fast, if I stick to low range 3rd gear it trucks right along.

JF in MI · Sep 18, 2016

We have a 15' on a Ford 5000 for our airport. Supposedly draws 35 HP (I'm not too convinced on the source of that) but the 5000 handles that fine depending on the forward speed. If cutting normal growth too (7th or 8th gear)fast it misses a lot of the weeds because the mower is gone before they stand back up from the front of the deck. Heavier stuff just requires a "sane" speed. I forget the brand but had to trim about 2" off the trailing edge of each deck housing to let the cuttings out. Before that they would bunch up underneath (in the heavy stuff) and almost stall out the tractor.

ptfarmer · Sep 18, 2016

Should you get into a spot where the grass, and weeds are tall, and thick you could just move over 5' or so, so you are not using the whole 15' width.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 19, 2016

100 HP or more if you want to get with the program 60 if you want to poke along.

kub6040 · Sep 22, 2016

I pull mine with a farmall 340 if light grass and a farmall 400 when it's heavier, neither of which have over 60 horse power and both do fine for me in my pastures . I know when the height of the grass is close to mowing time and go mow , this year was wet here and I had to raise the mower slightly to maintain ground speed then went back over the next week to get it down to the size I like . I have tried this mower behind my M and it can't take the bad spots with transmission driven pto , I think if you are a patient man your ford will do the trick but you may be in low at times and high others .

Traditional Farmer · Sep 22, 2016

You are pulling a 15ft batwing bush hog with a Farmall 340?

MikeJM · Sep 22, 2016

My dad ran our 15ft mower for years with our 5200 mowing around the pasture in the wet areas, 2nd or 3rd gear, would have to put snap on duals on sometimes to keep the tractor floating in the soft wet stuff otherwise he would bury it.

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