Are Fransgard mowers any good?

[MrValmet505]

Mr Jorgen Fransgard (CEO) has asked for your email address. He will make contact with you next week.

Thank you very very much. This is incredible. I am amazed at this level of customer service. I don’t think i can thank you enough. I’m getting such a positive view of the brand for every reply i get. And now you can assist me this much? This is so unbelieveably good for my case. Thank you very much. How do i give you my mail adress? Just post it as a reply here or is there some direct message function of some sort?

 

[SalesAgent]

Thank you very very much. This is incredible. I am amazed at this level of customer service. I don’t think i can thank you enough. I’m getting such a positive view of the brand for every reply i get. And now you can assist me this much? This is so unbelieveably good for my case. Thank you very much. How do i give you my mail adress? Just post it as a reply here or is there some direct message function of some sort?

You can email it to me of you feel more comfortable [email protected] and I will forward it on to him.

 

[MrValmet505]

You can email it to me of you feel more comfortable [email protected] and I will forward it on to him.

Thank you, i have sent it now. I really appreciate you doing this for me, thank you very much. This is great customer service!

 

[puppet]

Unless you hit rocks a mower cutting 130 acres should last 20 years as it is only working 3 days a year.
What could go wrong at that price.
As for practice, set it up on concrete to get it lifting level, pulling straight then adjust the cutting height after the first 50m.
As mentioned try to turn right and uphill when lifted as it can unbalance your tractor.

 

[MrValmet505]

Unless you hit rocks a mower cutting 130 acres should last 20 years as it is only working 3 days a year.
What could go wrong at that price.
As for practice, set it up on concrete to get it lifting level, pulling straight then adjust the cutting height after the first 50m.
As mentioned try to turn right and uphill when lifted as it can unbalance your tractor.

Thank you very much for this advice. I’ve honestly never done this before, so i really appreciate it! You are bringing up very relevant and important points. Any mower would probably do at my farm size anyways. There is not much to go wrong at that price. And when the mower is so reasonably priced, i have some flexibility to afford repairs if any were to come.

Also, thank you very much for telling me a good way to set it up. As someone who’s fresh into the game of mowing, i don’t know what works best and not when it comes to setting it up and driving with it. I’ll remember this for later and do it this way when setting it up, thank you very much!

 

[killie_cowboy]

I see you write that they are using a Comer cutting deck. Do you know which other famous mowers do this? Just to know what compare the Fransgård

Malone, Mchale, Major, Jarmet, Talex, even the big boys like Claas and Lely use them too.

They're pretty much the go-to for smaller machinery manufacturers. There will of course be significant differences in build quality between a Jarmet and a Mchale though and possibly different levels of comer bed for stronger machines.

 

[MrValmet505]

Malone, Mchale, Major, Jarmet, Talex.

They're pretty much the go-to for smaller machinery manufacturers. There will of course be significant differences in build quality between a Jarmet and a Mchale though and possibly different levels of comer bed for stronger machines.

This is very interesting. Thank you very much for explaining this to me. It seems like very what cutting deck they have is very secret information for many manufacturers, as i’m going through the internet. I have been wondering about this for a while. I was looking at knives for the Fransgård mower. It said: «Fransgard/Lely/Fella» on the parts side. Does this mean that Lely and Fella also use cutting decks from Comer?

 

[killie_cowboy]

This is very interesting. Thank you very much for explaining this to me. It seems like very what cutting deck they have is very secret information for many manufacturers, as i’m going through the internet. I have been wondering about this for a while. I was looking at knives for the Fransgård mower. It said: «Fransgard/Lely/Fella» on the parts side. Does this mean that Lely and Fella also use cutting decks from Comer?

It will do, aye. I was having a look through the farming forum about it when it's been mentioned, seen that indeed Lely and ones I didn't particularly expect like claas use them on some of their mowers too. Of course ones like Krone, Kuhn and Claas do make their own beds.

Don't suppose the mower manufacturers would like to shout about the fact that half of them use the same bed as many farmers would just run for the cheapest one.

 

[MrValmet505]

It will do, aye. I was having a look through the farming forum about it when it's been mentioned, seen that indeed Lely and ones I didn't particularly expect like claas use them on some of their mowers too. Of course ones like Krone, Kuhn and Claas do make their own beds.

Don't suppose the mower manufacturers would like to shout about the fact that half of them use the same bed as many farmers would just run for the cheapest one.

That’s very interesting. Knowing that the Fransgård has the same cutting bed manufacturer as some Claas and Lely models, is soothing. I get that many bigger manufacturers at higher price points won’t brag too much about this. However, it’s very interesting to find out.

Do Fella or anyone else of the big brands also use Comer cutting beds? Fella is by the way now known as MF and Fendt mowers.

 

[killie_cowboy]

That’s very interesting. Knowing that the Fransgård has the same cutting bed manufacturer as some Claas and Lely models, is soothing. I get that many bigger manufacturers at higher price points won’t brag too much about this. However, it’s very interesting to find out.

Do Fella or anyone else of the big brands also use Comer cutting beds? Fella is by the way now known as MF and Fendt mowers.

Well some MF/Fendt mowers are Lely and some are Fella nowadays. Fella always got a reputation for not being very heavy made. The UK & Ireland are a big test for continental machinery as crops are a lot heavier here.
It's true that a lot of the beds are the same but in fairness, the bits between it and the tractor are incredibly important as well. How it's suspended and how strong the frame is determine longevity and often how well it cuts too.

 

[Gerbert]

Well some MF/Fendt mowers are Lely and some are Fella nowadays.

I doubt that lely used comer beds and I know agco doesn't sell them as mf or fendt.
Lely had a totally different style of bed, being axle driven instead of gear drive and they have a modular build to them, each disc had its own self contained gearbox and is the same throughout pretty much the whole range. Fella actually used to have axle drive aswell but I heard they are now gear drive.

 

[MrValmet505]

Well some MF/Fendt mowers are Lely and some are Fella nowadays. Fella always got a reputation for not being very heavy made. The UK & Ireland are a big test for continental machinery as crops are a lot heavier here.
It's true that a lot of the beds are the same but in fairness, the bits between it and the tractor are incredibly important as well. How it's suspended and how strong the frame is determine longevity and often how well it cuts too.

Thank you for sharing this information. I didn’t know how Fella was viewed in the UK and Ireland. That’s really valuable information for me. I see what you mean with the beds not being the only important bits, i’m just using this information to compare the Fransgard mower to other manufacturers. Judging by the information i’m getting by you helpful people on this forum, it doesn’t really sound too bad. I’m starting to get a bit of hope with this mower i’m looking at, which probably is the best way to start a season with. I really appreciate this thread as i find it very interesting to learn more about mowers.

 

[killie_cowboy]

I doubt that lely used comer beds and I know agco doesn't sell them as mf or fendt.
Lely had a totally different style of bed, being axle driven instead of gear drive and they have a modular build to them, each disc had its own self contained gearbox and is the same throughout pretty much the whole range. Fella actually used to have axle drive aswell but I heard they are now gear drive.

I couldn't have told you what beds the Lelys ran. This is just information from the salesman that some are Fella and some Lely.

 

[Gerbert]

I couldn't have told you what beds the Lelys ran. This is just information from the salesman that some are Fella and some Lely.

He was probably thinking about tedders. Bolex has taken on producing a small range of lely mowers specifically for the verge mowing market and Vermeer in america seems to still sell some lely style mowers.
I visited the lely factory in Maassluis when they where still making machines and they made absolutely nothing themselves (so it might as well be comer making the beds), it was assembly only.