Need more info. What exactly are you mowing? Brush? Small trees? Just grass?
In my opinion, a sickle mower is the safest - any rotary or flail type mower has the potential to fling rocks and hurt people.
A sickle mower will not throw rocks or debris. The only time it would be more dangerous than the other type is when manually raising and lowering the bar for transport - just keep your fingers clear!
Here are a couple of videos to show what a sickle mower will do in grass/alfalfa/etc.
From what I know about a brush hog is that they are a rotary type like a lawn mower (with heavier duty parts, of course) and they mulch whatever you are cutting so it rots more quickly into fertilizer.
And what I know about a flail mower - the ones I have seen referred to as a flail type look like a garden tiller that is running really fast to cut off grass, etc.
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