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Neil from Messick's here. 
We're out today with a really unique piece 
that came through our a lot 
that we thought we'd show you today.
 It's an Alamo Falcon 15 Flex Wing Mower. 
The really unique piece 
about this is that it's not
 driven with traditional PTO Drivelines 
and instead is completely hydraulically operated.
 You'll notice here there's large
 hydraulic motors sitting over 
the top of each of the wings
 and a large reservoir with pumps 
up here in the middle.
By operating this whole thing hydraulically,
 there's some pretty unique things 
about this mower that you don't have 
in a traditional driveline-operated machine. 
For instance, when you go into a turn, 
you could turn this machine as sharply
 as you possibly could want 
without having to worry about
chattering drivelines
as you go through your corners. 
The wings too 
because they don't have drivelines coming out 
to them and are just simply run up by hoses
 can operate it up to a 45-degree angle. 
Which is steeper than what
most driveline-driven mowers 
can operate at.
Most of those are only recommended to go 
to about 20 degrees or so 
before you'll start to get a lot of chatter in the driveline.
 In this case, this mower is headed out 
to an airport which makes a lot of sense. 
Because the airport has a lot of 
really steep swells and stuff 
that they need to be able to mow 
and so this mower enables them to do that. 
A setup like this 
is really a purpose-built rig. 
It's not something you're going to 
be moving between a lot of different tasks.
 If you look back here, 
you can see the hydraulic pumps for this 
are bolted right onto the back of the tractor 
with a gearing 
piece in here
 to go to two large Parker hydraulic pumps.
They are bolted right on to the back 
of the machine. 
These things are going to generate the flow 
in and out of this reservoir over here
in order to operate the wings.
 Environments like airport and municipal applications 
often have safety concerns 
that go far beyond, say, 
a farmer pulling a mower through a pasture.
 In this case, the chain shielding
 that's typically put on the front
and the back of these wings 
on these Falcon mowers is two layers.
This extra layer of chain
 is going to make sure that no flying debris 
makes it through. 
This ring right here 
on the bottom side the deck is called a deck ring.
In mowers that are sold in
 a lot of these municipal applications,
 these deck rings are often required. 
Their purpose is that if this blade 
is spinning around and 
contacts something hard while it's spinning, 
the ring will keep the blade 
from possibly penetrating up 
through the bottom deck of the mower.
Really some unique applications 
that we get into with this equipment. 
They're going to call for things that 
you may not see in an everyday application. 
Continuing on our airline theme, 
the tires on the back of this are actually 
also airplane tires. 
This is an option on a lot of rotary mowers 
like this where they actually will buy 
tires that are coming off of small aircraft
that can't be used on the aircraft anymore
but for a mowing application are really ideal.
These tires can be, 
say, 18 and 20 ply, 
they're very, very thick 
and they can have a lot of rubber in them 
so that they're not apt to go flat 
on you during a demanding application. 
As you can see, we here at Messick's 
are in a lot of different things. 
We do agriculture, 
we do construction 
and also sell a lot of equipment 
in the municipal applications. 
If you have a unique application
 for a piece of equipment 
or a unique job that needs to be done, 
give us a call and see if we can help. 
We're available at 800 222 3373, 
we're online at Messicks.com.
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