Turfmech
Watching Turfmech’s Austin Jarrett walking around the rugby pitch alongside a green, turtle-like object, you'd be forgiven for thinking that BigMow was some sort of pet he’d brought along for the exercise. It is, however a ‘mowing system’, the latest offering from Turfmech Machinery. The smallest of the machines on the field, it was launched at Saltex in September and is intended primarily for large domestic applications.
By lifting its lid and pressing a button on the control panel, Austin instructed it to return to its docking station, a small box placed at the edge of the pitch which is where BigMow auto docks and recharges its 30-volt batteries when they run low or when its mowing is complete. He’d visited the site the day
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before and installed a length of cable just below the surface around the perimeter of the pitch. At a domestic property, the cable would be installed around the edge of the lawn and around borders and shrubs. It’s this cable that produces an invisible fence over which BigMow will not cross.
Once it had docked, there was a whirring noise as the blades increased in speed to spin off any excess clippings before the mower shuts down to recharge. We gathered round to take a closer look under the lid to see how BigMow received its instructions. A simple menu shows a list of tasks that can be selected and enables the user to set the machine on a timer. Next to the keypad, there’s a gauge for adjusting the height
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