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month trials; if you don’t like it, return it and they will refund all but the shipping cost. Your publisher took them up on their off er, and a DR 3-point hitch model DR Mower-Trimmer was delivered last summer – and returned this winter, as the terrain was just too hilly and uneven for this product. However, the company was true to its word, with excellent customer service. T ose that have ‘em, love ‘em. Bob Vechery swears by his Swisher Postmas-
ter, which he pulls with an International Cub tractor over the gently rolling terrain of his Checkmate Farm in Howard County: “I don’t know what I would do without it. It used to
take me three hours with a weed-eater, and I was shot; the Swisher does it in less than an hour and all I have to do is sit. T e hardest thing is pull-starting the engine, which is pret- ty easy most of the time.” Paul Schopf (Dressage at Sundown in Lay- tonsville) has a DR Power three-point hitch model, which he pulls with an old Kubota 1750 to trim under his four-board fencing on fairly level terrain, and he loves it! “It is sturdy, well built, and runs very well.
T ey have good parts availability (the mow-ball wears because it is in contact with the ground, the trimmer line is very heavy and lasts a long
time, but not when you hit something metal). “I can do a mile of fence in about an hour or
less, and so I mow often (three-four times per year). At fi rst, the multifl ora roses and other brambles that grow up under neglected fences played havoc with the trimmer line, and replac- ing it was getting a little tedious, but after the fi rst few passes the fi rst year, you fi nd that it is like weed-eating grass, and I can go a long time before needing to change the line. “However, I would not recommend this to
anyone who has to deal with hillsides. If you extend a straight line from beneath the two rear tires, the ground where you need to trim should be on that line. T ey advertise that you can adjust the mower or let it “fl oat,” but I have been unable to get this to work reliably. “T ere are a few design fl aws. T e
PTO shaft goes over a horizontal bar on the trimmer, which means that if you lift the unit up using the three-point hitch, you can damage the PTO shaft before the head gets very far off the ground.” If you use a pull-behind trimmer, we
The DR Power three-point hitch (left) and Swish- er Postmaster (above), both got positive reviews by Equiery readers.
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