Reel (cylinder) Mowers

Reel (cylinder) Mowers

There are four major types of reel mower: push, walk behind power, ride-on power, and tow-behind gang mower. Push mowers are powered by people pushing them and are usually used on very small lawns. The walk power reel mower can be divided into two types: a (largely obsolete) powered version of the push mower, used for residential lawns and a ‘greens mower’ used for the precision cutting of golf greens. Riding power reel mowers can also be divided into two types: the ‘triplex’ which has three hydraulically driven independent cutting heads and is used for golf greens, and the larger ‘fairway’ machine that has five or seven hydraulically driven cutting heads. Gang reel mowers are towed behind a tractor in sets (gangs) of three, five, or seven. They are ‘ground-powered’ that is, the tires of each cutting unit are geared to drive the reel. Gang mowers are used to mow large areas of turf such as sports fields or parks.

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