Technical
They say that ‘a little knowledge is dangerous’ and in the context of this mowing subject, I would say that ‘a little knowledge is EXPENSIVE’
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designed predominantly for golf course use and their out front rotary machines were already well developed for municipal rotary machines were: grass than a cylinder
Naturally, the prospect of reducing mowing take over as the predominant municipal manufacturers must have also been worried about this possibility because they took steps to make sure they also had a municipal machine range from scratch, they set about acquiring an American rotary mower
if used correctly and in the right mowing the “old Smokey” Victa two stroke pedestrian rotary mowers, although some manufacturers of the larger 30” that, in those days, councils were not they are now and it was common for parks departments to have several spare triple mowers to cover for the inevitable parts supply was not as urgent as it is now due to the availability of these So, set against the UK industry standard of cylinder mowing, American mower manufacturers were trying hard to establish and grow sales of their rotary the American cylinders mowers were
Well, although a fair number of rotary machines were sold and some local regime, it was not the landslide that was use a very successful rotary mowing rotary machines, when many others failed, is that they were prepared to adapt their whole mowing regime to suit
grown up with cylinder mowing, and it was was, “how low will it cut” or comments like, Faced with this mind-set, it was clear that these users were never going to successfully
There were however, some genuine issues
and concerns associated with the use of The most common of which was safety, and Using rotary mowers on roadside verges and in public areas was seen by many American rotary machines imported more dangerous than the later rear discharge designs with regard to thrown was too much for some users to consider and they ruled out the purchase of such to argue this point because, during a deck rotary machine in the early 90s, and out from one of the wing decks had taken machine, but on the upside a contractor who The thrown object issue was a major
it was met with considerable resistance eventually realised that if they were to sell their machines in the UK, they would Other manufacturers refused to modify their decks for what was then seen as a small UK market, and the burden was carry out the conversion of standard side switch to rear discharge had its own design problems, the main one being
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