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Flail mower mounted on the BCS
Palladino Flail Mowers
These heavy-duty mowers feature a horizontally-mounted drum with numerous sets of hinged blades mounted to it.
The blades “flail” out by centrifugal force (at a drum speed of about 3000 rpm) to pulverize material. Flail mowers are excellent for reducing mowed material to a very small size for quick incorporation/breakdown into the soil; very popular for cover crops for this reason. A six-foot tall cover crop can be reduced to 2” – 4” pieces in a single pass and left evenly distributed across the width of the mower.
Because of the time and horsepower required to grind up the material that is being mowed, the taller and denser the material is, the slower this mower has to move (unlike a cutter [sickle] bar mower, which only cuts material off at the bottom and therefore doesn’t care how tall it is, and the brush mowers, which will give a decent cut at higher speeds but just not grind the material up much).
Palladino Flail Mowers come standard equipment with a full-width steel roller behind the blade rotor which can be adjusted (by removing 2 bolts) up or down to regulate cutting height from essentially 0-4 inches.
Uses 2 constant-tension V-belts to transfer power to the blade rotor; has oil bath input gearbox with grease fittings on rotor bearings.
