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Explain Flail Mower Mechanism

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Her First Ride in the "BIG T TRACTOR"! It's MOW TIME!

What happens here

The presenter elaborates on the flail mower's internal mechanism, which consists of swinging hammers or blades. These blades rapidly rotate to grab and chop debris, effectively pulverizing vegetation into mulch rather than just cutting it. This process eliminates the need to leave unsightly 'windrows' of cut material, common with rotary cutters. The mower also features safety guards to prevent flung debris. The adjustable height allows for mulching all the way down to the ground.

Goal: This step provides a detailed explanation of how the flail mower operates, emphasizing its mulching capability and safety features compared to traditional rotary cutters.

Tools and materials

  • Maschio Flail Mower

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the specs on it the way a flail mower works and we'll get a little bit closer here in a second but there are swinging hammers right here they call them hammers or blades and those swinging blades are going like that and they're grabbing the debris and chopping it up really really fast okay so we'll get the camera and the drone and show you this thing spinning but i don't want to get anywhere near it while it's working now there's a big old roller right back here on the back so this thing just rolls right along the ground this is adjustable so you can adjust the height you can mulch all the way down to the ground in other words instead of just mowing we're actually mulching and we're not leaving a windrow like we would with a rotary cutter like a brush hog brush type cutter so that's what it is this is some of your safety stuff right here so in case it flings anything it hits these safety guards and that's it that's how it works so we're going to put it to work not a lot of explanation really needed it's a cutter it's an awesome cutter and you don't have to run over the ground with the tractor tires prior to running over it with the cutter which makes for a prettier well-known field that's what it's all about cool i imagine it would get into some cow patties too so as you guys can see right there you can mow the edge of a fence line you can go right up to the edge of the fence line and mow it's really really cool so i can match this up right with the edge where the tires are and go right down the edge of the fence line and clear all the brush off of it awesome let's put this thing to work i also want to show you the blade spinning before we put it to work so you guys can see what it looks like when it engages the

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