A riding lawn care vehicle may include a frame to which a mobility assembly is operably coupled, an equipment frame operably coupled to the frame forward of the mobility assembly, a steering assembly operably coupled to the mobility assembly to enable an operator seated on the riding lawn care vehicle to provide steering control of the riding lawn care vehicle, a removable cutting in deck and a belt positioning system. The cutting deck includes a rotatable blade and is configured to receive power for turning the blade from an equipment drive belt of the vehicle when the equipment drive belt is operably coupled with the cutting deck. The belt positioning system is configured to enable the equipment drive belt to be automatically operably coupled between the cutting deck and the riding lawn care vehicle in response to the cutting deck being docked with the equipment frame in an operational position.

A work vehicle comprising: a drive wheel unit that is provided in a vehicle body and is configured to be driven by a travel drive mechanism; a work unit that is provided in the vehicle body and is configured to perform work on a work target; a battery provided in the vehicle body; a motor that is configured to receive electric power from the battery and drive the work unit; an inclination sensor configured to detect an inclination of the vehicle body relative to a horizontal plane; and a first captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image that shows surroundings of the vehicle body when the work is being performed.

Provided are blades 22R, 22C, 22L rotatably driven about rotational axes XL, XC, XR to be able to cut grass on the ground surface, a housing covering the blades 22R, 22C, 22L and having a lower face thereof opened, a water feeding section provided outside the housing, a water discharging section 54 provided inside the housing for discharging cleaning water fed to the water feeding section, and a water feeding pipe 55 connected to/between the water feeding section and the water discharging section 54. The water discharging section 54 discharges water toward an inner wall face of the housing.

A lawn mower deck cleaning apparatus and method are disclosed. The cleaning apparatus has a gravity-fed dispenser assembly that delivers ice discretely through an aperture in the lawn mower deck. The ice impacts the lawn mower blade and a plurality of slingers, which pulverize the ice, causing it to ricochet against the interior surfaces of the lawn mower deck, thereby removing debris.

An apparatus for surface treatment and collection of undesirable debris from lawns. During a cutting operation, rotating blades ripe surface material from soil up onto a filtering screen and along this further to a collecting box so that only stones and debris of e.g. at least 1 cm enter the box whereas smaller particles/soil escape through the filter screen and are thereby returned to the lawn surface, which significantly increases the nutrient level in the upper layers of the lawn.

Aspects of a lawnmower and in particular a robotic lawnmower are disclosed herein. Specifically, the lawnmower may include a passive cleaning assembly for removing detritus from the housing, the passive cleaning assembly being moveably mounted on said housing. Movement of the lawnmower with respect to the ground may cause a cleaning portion of the passive cleaning assembly to move with respect to the housing and thereby remove detritus from the housing. In one aspect, the lawnmower may be configured such that, during use, the cleaning assembly is moved with respect to the housing thereby causing a scraping edge of a cleaning portion of the cleaning assembly to move with respect to the housing and thereby scrape detritus off the housing. In another aspect the lawnmower may comprise a sliding member having a ground-engaging surface that is positioned so as to face towards and to slide over the ground during such movement of the lawnmower over the lawn. In another aspect the lawnmower may comprise a ground contact footprint being defined by a polygon bounding a plurality of ground contact regions. In addition, at least part of one or more of the cutting areas swept out by the grass cutting blades may be positioned beyond the perimeter of the ground contact footprint, at the front of the lawnmower with respect to its forwards direction of movement.

An autonomous mower including a housing; a mowing module, a traveling module, an information collection device, an energy module, a control module and the control module includes an identification unit, and an alarm module. The autonomous mower has a security patrol working mode in which the identification unit analyzes and judges whether an abnormal object exists in the working area according to the information collected by the information collection device; if the abnormal object exists, the control module controls the alarm module to send an alarm signal to the outside. Therefore, the autonomous mower can achieve a security patrol function in addition to having a function of trimming the lawn. The autonomous mower has multiple uses, so as to save the cost.

A lawn mower deck cleaning system and method is provided for cleaning mower decks and other interior surfaces that become layered with debris over time. The cleaning system comprises an elongated conduit affixed to the mower deck that provides a solid material from a hopper directly into the mower deck interior. The upper end of the conduit includes a hopper with upstanding sidewalls and an interior configured to support solid ice material therein. The lower end of the conduit terminates at a junction along the mower deck surface, whereby solid ice moves through the conduit, through the junction and into the mower deck interior to be jettisoned against the walls of the mower deck and ultimately pulverized by the spinning mower blade.

A high-efficiency blade for a lawn maintenance tool includes a central axis and a mounting portion located on the central axis. The high-efficiency blade includes a cutting blade and a cutting blade sharpened leading edge. A cleaning blade is vertically offset from the cutting blade and is configured to mulch the associated clippings from vegetation and reduce an associated accumulation of clippings on an underside of an associated mower deck. The lawn maintenance tool can also include a deck having a separation distance between the cleaning blade and an underside of the deck. The deck can include an elevation change to vary the separation distance. The deck and high-efficiency blade can also include a forward or rearward tilt.

A clamping tool for exchanging a mowing blade on a blade rotor, the clamping tool including a lever arm with a fork head, wherein the fork head has two fork legs that are parallel to each other at a distance and have a bent shape such that, with respect to a horizontally oriented lever arm, the fork legs have an arc-shaped construction with fork leg ends pointing essentially in the vertical direction, wherein the clamping tool can be clamped between a mowing disc and a spring plate of a blade rotor and can be brought into engagement with a pocket on a top side of the mowing disc, and the fork leg ends are pressed against the bottom side of the mowing disc by a downward movement of the lever arm, and the fork legs press the spring plate downward.