SELF-PROPELLED CUTTING MACHINE

摘要

A self-propelled cutting machine (100) has one cutting unit (108) positioned in front of each forward wheel (104) and one cutting unit (110) positioned behind the common transverse axis of the forward wheels (104) so that the three cutting units (108, 110) cut a single swathe. Each cutting unit (108, 110) has a cutting element with a driven shaft (206) and a plurality of flail elements (202)spaced along the length of the driven shaft (206) and each rotatable with respect to the drive shaft axis (204) about a flail element axis that is parallel to and spaced from said axis. The flail cutting element in each cutting unit (108, 110) may be replaced by a helical cutting reel (19).