It appears that is the TL model which seems to be lighter duty.
After reading some of the details on the main flail mower thread there seems
to be a concern about balance.
If you consistently overlapped your cuts would you cause a significant amount
more wear on the side taking in the uncut area?
No there is no issue with balance as all the knives are there.
Would the balance from end to end not really matter,
just the balance around the shaft is crucial?
The end to end balance matters just as having a balanced crank shaft
in an engine for the same reasons.
Thats why the rotors have weights welded to them.
The rotors are mounted in a metal lathe and a dial indicator is mounted on
the tool base of the lathe and every inch of the rotor shaft is spun by hand
at first to find high and low spots in the shaft to locate the points that must
be properly balanced and the wieghts are added by welding either prior to or
fter the weldments are added for the knife hangers depending on the rotor type.
The rotor on our lawn genie is set up as a large diameter pulley with the knife hangers
welded to the shell to aid in grass mowing and the entire drum is
balanced with welded on wieghts.
The end to end balance is crucial to guarantee that it has a centered unwavering orbit at all times,
due to the high speed of rotation.
Ths also gives the maximum delivered centrifugal energy to the knives throw wieght when
slashing/cutting brush and the great cut when mowing grass because the knives are slicing
the grass blade so fast in the rotation of the rotor.
no worries; they work very well and they work very hard to mow grass, or slash brush (that needs to be shortened anyway)
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