Mowers and Cutting Equipment
Old petrol driven lawn mowers are in efficient and put volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) into the atmosphere. Research in parts of the USA has suggested that 7% of all VOC’s in southeastern Wisconsion are produced by lawn and garden equipment. Buying a new electric or manual lawn mower will save you time and money and help protect the environment.Manual mowers are excellent for small lawns. They are inexpensive, quiet, easy to maintain and healthy to use.Electric mowers work well for small to medium lawns. Modern pollution controls required for utility plants make this option much cleaner than petrol mowers.
Electric mowers are:
- Inexpensive to operate—about £ 5 per year for electricity.
- Easy to maintain—no costly engine tune-ups or messy oil changes.
- Clean—no spilled oil or gasoline, no exhaust fumes, significantly reduced air pollution.
- Quiet—about half the noise of gasoline mowers.
- Easy to start—push-button starting, no more yanking on a starter cord.
Mowers and cutting equipments are the modern equipments used cut crops and other items. They help in cutting things quickly and efficiently. Let us first discus about mowers. A mower is simply a device used to cut plants and crops in the fields. There are small mowers which are used to cut lawns in home gardens and sports ground and are mainly known as lawn mowers. These mowers consist of rotary cutters and are pushed by the operator to carry on the work. They are usually self-powered. Mowers like swathers and windrows are used to cut hay and grain crops.
Mowers are classified into sickle mowers, rotary mowers, reel mowers and flail mowers. Sickle mowers are used to cut grass and other plant matter. They are moved back and forth to accomplish the work. They are operated in this manner to cut out the uncut grass and hays. The rotary mowers have high speed rotating bars with sharp edges. They can be driven at a speed of about 30kms/hr. They can be mounted on double and triple sets of tractors. They are capable of cutting up to 20m swaths. The reel mowers which produce a continuous scissor cut performance. They can easily cut tangled tall grass as well as short, upright and taller vegetations. They can be pulled by tractors to make up a gang mower. The flail mowers have number of small blades arranged horizontally and cut grass and hat at high speed. They are mainly used on rough grounds. The cutting equipments are usually made of metal and are available as CNC cutting equipments used to cut large meat pieces at high speed, pipe cutting equipment used to cut PVC pipes, die cutting machines, wire cutting equipments, tree cutting equipments. All these mowers and cutting equipments are available at appreciable prices.
