A lawn mower includes a housing with a baffle that defines an air path to produce a cross-flow. The baffle includes a vent to manipulate air pressures within the housing and facilitate movement of plant clippings. A hand-held device for trimming with a rotary blade assembly may also include a housing that defines an air path to produce a cross-flow. The hand-held trimming device may also a baffle with a vent to facilitate movement of plant clippings.

A lawn mower includes a housing with a baffle that defines an air path to produce a cross-flow. The baffle includes a vent to manipulate air pressures within the housing and facilitate movement of plant clippings. A hand-held device for trimming with a rotary blade assembly may also include a housing that defines an air path to produce a cross-flow. The hand-held trimming device may also a baffle with a vent to facilitate movement of plant clippings.

A walk reel mower has a pivotal rear traction drum that can be selectively disposed in two different mowing positions that allow a single mower to cut grass on golf course greens as well as tee boxes with no degradation in cutting or power performance. The reel cutting unit has a pivotal rear shield to allow the rear shield to be pivotally adjusted to maintain its radial spacing relative to the orbit of the reel at a desired amount as the reel diameter decreases due to wear.

A walk reel mower has a pivotal rear traction drum that can be selectively disposed in two different mowing positions that allow a single mower to cut grass on golf course greens as well as tee boxes with no degradation in cutting or power performance. The reel cutting unit has a pivotal rear shield to allow the rear shield to be pivotally adjusted to maintain its radial spacing relative to the orbit of the reel at a desired amount as the reel diameter decreases due to wear.

A material reducing apparatus includes a reducing head that includes a rotary reducing component that carries a plurality of cutters. The reducing head includes a thrown object deflector positioned proximate the rotary reducing component. The thrown object deflector is configured to limit at least one of a distance and a direction that objects can be thrown by the rotary reducing component.

An improved grass-discharging-passage stirring and cutting mechanism for a rear shaft at a bottom of a lawn mower. Ultra-thin blades are adopted since a grass-discharging passage is very narrow and small while many stirring and cutting rods and blades are used. The blade is firstly placed into mixed buried soil, is subjected to thermal treatment, is scanned by variable-frequency electromagnetic field and laser, and is subjected to electromagnetic co-penetration heat treatment under platinum-rhodium catalysis; then the blade is subjected to organic post-treatment, is heated at a co-penetration turning point of 723 C., and then quenched in organic matter of horse urine; a noise-elimination inner shaft of the rear shaft of the lawn mower is hollow and has a plurality of noise-elimination wedges for facilitating noise elimination and reduction. The improved mechanism may be powered directly by a three-stage planetary retarder connected to an electric motor.

An improved grass-discharging-passage stirring and cutting mechanism for a rear shaft at a bottom of a lawn mower. Ultra-thin blades are adopted since a grass-discharging passage is very narrow and small while many stirring and cutting rods and blades are used. The blade is firstly placed into mixed buried soil, is subjected to thermal treatment, is scanned by variable-frequency electromagnetic field and laser, and is subjected to electromagnetic co-penetration heat treatment under platinum-rhodium catalysis; then the blade is subjected to organic post-treatment, is heated at a co-penetration turning point of 723 C., and then quenched in organic matter of horse urine; a noise-elimination inner shaft of the rear shaft of the lawn mower is hollow and has a plurality of noise-elimination wedges for facilitating noise elimination and reduction. The improved mechanism may be powered directly by a three-stage planetary retarder connected to an electric motor.

A crop forming assembly having a top plate with a first side and a second side, an arc-shaped cutout defined through the top plate, a forming shield pivotally coupled to the top plate and positioned on the second side, and a motor removably coupled to the top plate and configured to engage the forming shield. Wherein, the motor engages the forming shield to reposition the forming shield along the arc-shaped cutout.

A crop forming assembly having a top plate with a first side and a second side, an arc-shaped cutout defined through the top plate, a forming shield pivotally coupled to the top plate and positioned on the second side, and a motor removably coupled to the top plate and configured to engage the forming shield. Wherein, the motor engages the forming shield to reposition the forming shield along the arc-shaped cutout.

A swathing unit (12) for an agricultural mower (4) includes at least one side deflector plate (14) that defines one side of a discharge opening (18) and is adjustable between a wide swath configuration and a narrow swath configuration. The side deflector plate (14) is attached to a pivot mechanism (30) and is angularly adjustable about a pivot axis (X) between an inner position and an outer position. The side deflector plate (14) comprises a first plate element (20) that is attached to the pivot mechanism and a second plate element (22) that is attached to the first plate element and is adjustable to adjust the overall length of the side deflector plate. The second plate element is attached to a control element (32) that cooperates with a guide element (42) to control adjustment of the length and the angular position of the side deflector plate. Movement of the control element relative to the guide element causes simultaneous adjustment of the length and the angular position of the side deflector plate (14).