> We have sandy loam, with quarter to half-dollar stones in it. > Gophers push stones up, disc launch them at 200MPH into $500 to >$1000 cab windows.
Heh, yeah, with rocky ground, you probably don't want to use a disc mower even if you don't have gophers :). The year my dad bought his first disc mower a neighbor hired him to cut corn stalks with it for round baling. His fields had more rocks in them than the gravel quarry. Luckily, we didn't lose any windows or kill anyone, but we learned a lesson about disc mowers and rocks. Probably took years off the mower's life.
The disc mower does eat (rock-free) gopher mounds for lunch though. I spent way too many hours of my life cleaning them out of the old sickle-bar haybines to ever go back to one.
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