DOUBLE-KNIFE MOWERS
Higher snowing speeds may be possible with lees strata on the mower as • result ef the nee of the doable-knife mower which is now reaching the New Zealand market. In this type of machine the cutting is done by two knives working -against each other instead of one knife working against ledger plates carried in fingers. Mr George Lindsay, lecturer in the agricultural engineering department at Canterbury Agricultural CoUege, said this week that with this mower there should be freedom from vibration in high speed mowing in light crops. One of the mein alma of the machine, he said, was to have two reciprocating
masses, the movement of one of which balanced the movement of the other.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 9
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