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The addition of landscaping, ground prep, and land clearing equipment to our inventory lends itself well to winter blog topics. We know that our customers have plenty to do to keep their small farms running in every season. The non-growing season on a farm is an especially perfect time to catch up on land maintenance tasks like brush clearing and dealing with trees and limbs that may have fallen during the stormy summer months. And what implement is most likely at the center of any of these win …

Here at Tractor Tools Direct we field quite a few phone calls, chats, and emails asking about different types of mowers and their uses. This blog will discuss the differences between the two types of mowers we carry–drum mowers and flail mowers–and explain why they are not interchangeable. They definitely have very different uses on a small farm. A drum mower is a hay mower. Its purpose is to cut the stem of a crop at its base leaving the cut plant as unscathed and complete as poss …