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Neil from Messick's here with the Land Pride parallel link rotary cutter.
We should start a series here called 'Tractor's are Fun', right?
The variety of applications that we get into with equipment,
it seems almost unending sometimes.
We do a lot of talking here on our channels about compact tractors,
and utility tractors, and farm tractors and that kind of stuff
but we also sell equipment into municipal applications as well.
One of the most common applications that we see is highway mowing,
where guys run in off-wheels and that kind of stuff to cut along road banks.
In this case, a long parallel arm ditch bank cutter to reach out
over top of the long bank
and maintain properties and grasses
down over the sides of embankments.
In this case here, this is a Land Pride cutter.
We're going to do a walk around here
and show you a little bit about this piece
and see if it seems like it's something interesting,
just enjoying some of the unique stuff that we see on tractors sometimes.
There's several different highway mowing systems
that we sell.
We're also a dealer for Alamo products,
which makes some really large and very , very commercial oriented pieces.
One of the drawbacks in some of their equipment
is that when you install their pieces onto a tractor
you really tie up the tractor and you dedicate it to that use.
A long, say, extreme mower with a 22 foot reach over the side
isn't something you're reasonably going to remove
from that tractor from season to season.
This Land Price setup is a little bit different
and that this whole piece can sit on the tractor's three point hitch
and can very easily go on and off a machine.
That's not to say that there's no setup here.
This is a really big, really heavy piece.
The tractor has to be balanced out
property to support it when the arm is hanging way out over the side.
Land Pride typically specs this for a 75 to 150 horsepower tractor,
weighing at least 7,000 pounds.
Even then, there is weight brackets and stuff
over here on the side where you'd want to hang additional weights
depending on the ballasting of your tractor and stuff
to offset the weight of this large mower.
There is prep work to setting up your machine
to operate this
but it doesn't necessarily dedicate your machine to doing
absolutely nothing but mowing
like some other setups would.
If you look at this arm here,
there are four different hydraulic functions on here.
One that's worked off of this tractor's we remote
that swings the mower this direction.
It's storage and transport position
is the whole way behind here and fold it up
to give it a 10 foot transport lift.
The first thing you want to do here is you pull your hydraulic remote
to swing the mower out away from the tractor.
Once it's away, we'll go over the controls in the cab,
but you've got three additional electric hydraulic functions.
You run your PTO which runs a PTO pump here
off of this reservoir here on the back.
Your additional hydraulic functions are these two cylinders
right here in the parallel arm
in order to swing the thing out,
a pump right up here on the top that runs the motor.
Between those, the swing, the two for the arms and the pump,
it kind of gives you all the range emotion
-- I'm sorry, I missed one here.
Another cylinder up here on the top of the deck
in order to raise the deck this direction.
Total of one, two, three, four electric functions
and one rear remote function, so five functions on this mower.
When that parallel arm is stretched the whole way out
you can get 15 and a half feet of reach away from the tractor.
This is the 60 inch cutter version here.
There's also 72 inch versions of this as well.
It's a really unique piece for a really unique application,
but something that is really cool too.
If you hop up here in the cab with me
I will show you the controls of how this monster works.
I'm sitting at the cab of the tractor here.
I said there's one function that's done
off of the tractor's single hydraulic remote,
and that's the swing right here.
When I take this function front and back
I'm able to swing the mower out to the side of the machine.
The rest of the functions right here are on this motor stick.
Normally, this would go on top of the loader control valve.
We just had this thing set up right now
to take to trade shows and stuff.
It's not actually installed fully on the machine.
Normally, you'd pull off the little ball end on the end
of the motor stick and replace it with this multi-function control.
Once this is out to operate the rest of the controls here,
you need to turn the PTO on on the tractor that runs the pump.
Then you have two buttons for the arm,
one that operates the inside cylinder here,
and then a second that operates the further out arm cylinder.
Both of these can actually be used
in unison if you're somehow talented enough
to push them at the same time.
You could see a neat aspect of this parallel link
as these things lower down,
it does roll itself back at the same time.
It is keeping itself relatively level as the thing goes in and out.
It's not lowering the entire arm down to the ground as it lowers.
Those two functions will do my boom.
Then the end function right down here
can raise my deck up and down the valve, the contour, the ground.
With this now set the whole way out
I can lower that down to the ground.
Then I've got a float position here on my loader stick
that will relax all of those
and allow this thing to go down to the ground.
We're going to give the tractor some revs
and turn the mower on.
Now with that guy running
I'm going to take the tractor here,
slide it into first gear and slowly drive forward.
That's a Land Pride Boom Mower.
If you have any unique mowing applications or other unique situations
that you could use some attachments for your tractor
, give us a call here at Messick's.
We're available at 800-222-3373
or online at www.messicks.com.
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