Snapshot

The mower is a machine mainly used for harvesting grasses and forage crops. It cuts the stems of standing vegetation to make hay out of them. The mower cutter bar is capable of cutting the stems at 3-10 cm above the ground. There are different types of mowers used for cutting grass and forage crop such as cylinder, reciprocating, horizontal rotary and flail type mowers. According to the source of power, mowers can be classified as manually operated, animal-drawn, tractor-drawn and self-propelled. According to the mode of hitching, mowers can be classified as trailed type, semi-mounted and integral mounted type. Semi-mounted and integral-mounted mowers can be further classified as rear, mid and front-mounted.

A smaller mower used for lawns and sports grounds (playing fields) is called a lawnmower or grounds mower, which is often self-powered, or may also be small enough to be pushed by the operator. Grounds mowers have reel or rotary cutters. Larger mowers or mower-conditioners are mainly used to cut grass (or other crops) for hay or silage and often place the cut material into rows, which are referred to as windrows. Swathers (or windrowers) are also used to cut grass (and grain crops). Prior to the invention and adoption of mechanized mowers, (and today in places where use a mower is impractical or uneconomical), grass and grain crops were cut by hand using scythes or sickles.

Mower types:

1. Sickle mowers, also called reciprocating mowers, bar mowers, sickle-bar mowers, or finger-bar mowers, have a long (typically six to seven and a half feet) bar on which are mounted fingers with stationary guardplates. In a channel on the bar there is a reciprocating sickle with very sharp sickle sections (triangular blades).

2. Rotary mowers, also called drum mowers, have a rapidly rotating bar, or disks mounted on a bar, with sharpened edges that cut the crop. When these mowers are tractor-mounted they are easily capable of mowing grass at up to 10 miles per hour (16 km/h) in optimal conditions.

3. Reel mowers, also called cylinder mowers  (familiar as the hand-pushed or self-powered cylinder lawn mower), have a horizontally rotating cylindrical reel composed of helical blades, each of which in turn runs past a horizontal cutter-bar, producing a continuous scissor action. 

4. Flail mowers have a number of small blades on the end of chains attached to a horizontal axis. The cutting is carried out by the ax-like heads striking the grass at speed.

5. Electric mower well known now the time of innovation of lawnmower. After driven a long times it gets lot of upgradations now we have smart cut technology electric lawn mower. Also, it is now era of robot technology lawn mower which is mower powerful and smart one.