In the early 70's when flails weren't as common, my dad demonstrated one of the first Mott Interstator flails to the City of Edmonton. There were several big shots that were skeptical of this new type of mower, so they had the demo in a field with about 4 ft. tall grass. One of big shots was barely taller than the grass. The tractor was a 6600 Ford with an 88 inch PTO unit and 2 74 inch Hydraulic side units. The height of cut was at about 4 inches and my dad told the operator to put the tractor in first gear and put the PTO to 540 RPM. The tractor went about 10 ft. and all the big shots jaws dropped! The shorter big shot then said we have to get one of these. After that demo, they were easy to sell. Of the first 100 Interstators sold, my dad sold almost half of them. The city bought several and gave glowing reviews to anyone else that was skeptical. After seeing them in use, they sold themselfs and in the 70's a 2 sided Interstator cost about $25,000 and the tractor was a similar price. The inventer of the flail mower(Mott) was an engineer with IH but IH wasn't interested in his new mower design, so he went out on his own. His new hammer knife mower was the reason Ford, JD and a host of others started making flails. Mott was bought out by Alamo but are still the best machines on the market for what they're designed for. Dave
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