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Hi, my name is Kevin Dotterer. I'm a salesman with Messick Equipment
here at the out of town Pennsylvania location.
Today, we're going to look at the Woods BW180
15-Foot Bat Wing Mower.
On the Bat Wing mower, there's a couple of options you can get
that we typically stock
because that's what most of our customers
like, such as
this chain has front and rear chain shielding.
That is to keep rocks and debris from being thrown out
at the operator and others.
We normally stock this machine with a 540 RPM,
double CV joint PTO
to help with making sharper turns,
less stress on the driveline.
Also, the pivoting hitch
which makes it nice to go up and down through ditches without any issue
on the hitch pin.
We also have on this machine,
the tires or the aircraft foam-filled tires.
You don't have any flat tires to deal with.
They still have
a good transport flexibility. Primarily, because
they have a spring suspension on the axle.
If you transport it down the road, it transports pretty narrow
right about eight feet wide.
With the spring suspension that they have
up here on the center, that gives
some flexibility when you're traveling.
The Woods Bat Wing Mowers come with a 6-year gearbox warranty
as well as a 10-year rust through warranty on the decking.
On these later models that Woods has come out with,
the decking is very smooth on top.
You'll notice there's no bracing on top.
That way it keeps
all the grass and debris off the deck and very easy to blow it off and clean it.
In the old days, when it had all the other pieces on top,
you get material building up and that would create rust in little pockets.
The other nice thing about the newer models, on the BW180s,
is that the driveline comes back in an angle
instead of coming straight out from the sides.
The advantage of that is that you can mow
at a full 90 degrees
straight up,
you can also mow at 20 degrees down.
They make this model in the standard 180, which is what this one is.
You can cut up to two-inch diameter material
to make it in a BW180 heavy duty
which has a heavier duty gearbox for higher horsepower tractors.
They're also making a BW1800
which has a heavier gearbox,
a little bit heavier decking,
and you can cut up to three-inch diameter material.
With that model, you can also get your tandem wheels
on the base machine and tandem wheels on the wings.
This BW180 is also equipped with, what they call, stump jumpers.
That's the big pan here that the blades are attached to.
With this unit, if you hit something, like a big rock or a stump,
it will help to bounce over top of it instead of
hitting the shaft and doing damage to the shaft that holds the blades.
The blades are retained by a big pin,
what they call a quick-change blade system.
They have a bolt on the inside, a single bolt that comes out,
and then, the blade pin just pulls right out.
Then, you can put it right back in to sharpen or replace the blades.
Also, the way the deck is designed
with the baffling,
you don't get the
windrowing effect of material coming out the back.
It does a better job of just distributing the material.
This has been an overview of the Woods BW180 Bat Wing Mower.
If you have any questions, please call us at 1800-222-3373,
or visit us on the web at www.messicks.com. Thank you.
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