Abstract: A reduced weight underbelly mower has a cutting deck suspended beneath a frame by a deck height adjustment mechanism with a pivotable scissor configuration. The deck height adjustment mechanism cooperates with the mower frame so as manually or through a motorized jack to adjust the cutting height. Due to the mower's reduced weight and the scissor-like configuration of the deck height adjustment mechanism, an operator can manually lift the mower front end and swing the deck rear swinging forward, such that the mower rests stabilly on the deck rear and the deck underside is exposed for maintenance procedures.

Abstract: A reduced weight underbelly mower has a cutting deck suspended beneath a frame by a deck height adjustment mechanism with a pivotable scissor configuration. The deck height adjustment mechanism cooperates with the mower frame so as manually or through a motorized jack to adjust the cutting height. Due to the mower's reduced weight and the scissor-like configuration of the deck height adjustment mechanism, an operator can manually lift the mower front end and swing the deck rear swinging forward, such that the mower rests stabilly on the deck rear and the deck underside is exposed for maintenance procedures.

Abstract: An underbelly mower has a cutting deck suspended beneath a frame by a height adjustment mechanism. The deck is adjusted between different cutting heights by extendable mechanical advantage device such as an electric screw and hydraulic ram operating in cooperation with the height adjustment mechanism. The mechanical advantage device also operably moves the deck between a cutting configuration and a maintenance configuration. A deck quick release and attachment mechanism, including hook members, operably allows a user to quickly and easily disconnect and reconnect a rear of deck to the frame when moving between cutting and maintenance configurations.

Abstract: A multi-blade lawn mower has a mower deck with a downwardly directed interior opening. At least two rotary blades are disposed within the opening. A generally circular wraparound baffle is adapted to surround each rotary blade. The wraparound baffle has a throat area opening generally towards one of the walls at an acute angle and/or an opening in the mower deck. The wraparound baffle also has a sloped wall portion adapted to decrease in height gradually from the height of the wraparound baffle to an edge terminating in the throat area. A collar is attached to the top wall and extends downward to a position adjacent the rotary blade. The collar surrounds a spindle attached to the rotary blade to prevent grass buildup created by movement of the rotary blades in a vortex area proximate the spindle.

Abstract: An underbelly mower has a cutting deck suspended beneath a frame by a height adjustment mechanism. The deck is adjusted between different cutting heights by extendable mechanical advantage device such as an electric screw and hydraulic ram operating in cooperation with the height adjustment mechanism. The mechanical advantage device also operably moves the deck between a cutting configuration and a maintenance configuration. A deck quick release and attachment mechanism, including hook members, operably allows a user to quickly and easily disconnect and reconnect a rear of deck to the frame when moving between cutting and maintenance configurations.

Abstract: A multiblade lawn mower has a mower deck with a downwardly directed interior opening. At least two rotary blades are disposed within the opening. A generally circular wraparound baffle is adapted to surround each rotary blade. The wraparound baffle has a throat area opening generally towards one of the walls at an acute angle and/or an opening in the mower deck. The wraparound baffle also has a sloped wall portion adapted to decrease in height gradually from the height of the wraparound baffle to an edge terminating in the throat area. A collar is attached to the top wall and extends downward to a position adjacent the rotary blade. The collar surrounds a spindle attached to the rotary blade to prevent grass buildup created by movement of the rotary blades in a vortex area proximate the spindle.

Abstract: A multiblade lawn mower has a mower deck with a downwardly directed interior opening. At least two rotary blades are disposed within the opening. A generally circular wraparound baffle is adapted to surround each rotary blade. The wraparound baffle has a throat area opening generally towards one of the walls at an acute angle and/or an opening in the mower deck. The wraparound baffle also has a sloped wall portion adapted to decrease in height gradually from the height of the wraparound baffle to an edge terminating in the throat area. A collar is attached to the top wall and extends downward to a position adjacent the rotary blade. The collar surrounds a spindle attached to the rotary blade to prevent grass buildup created by movement of the rotary blades in a vortex area proximate the spindle.

Abstract: An underbelly mower has a cutting deck suspended beneath a frame by a height adjustment mechanism. The deck is adjusted between different cutting heights by extendable mechanical advantage device such as an electric screw and hydraulic ram operating in cooperation with the height adjustment mechanism. The mechanical advantage device also operably moves the deck between a cutting configuration and a maintenance configuration. A deck quick release and attachment mechanism, including hook members, operably allows a user to quickly and easily disconnect and reconnect a rear of deck to the frame when moving between cutting and maintenance configurations.

Abstract: An underbelly mower has a cutting deck suspended beneath a frame by a height adjustment mechanism. The deck is adjusted between different cutting heights by extendable mechanical advantage device such as an electric screw and hydraulic ram operating in cooperation with the height adjustment mechanism. The mechanical advantage device also operably moves the deck between a cutting configuration and a maintenance configuration. A deck quick release and attachment mechanism, including hook members, operably allows a user to quickly and easily disconnect and reconnect a rear of deck to the frame when moving between cutting and maintenance configurations.

Abstract: A self-propelled mower includes a frame and a mower housing mounted underbelly relative to the frame by a mounting assembly. The mounting assembly allows the mower housing to be disconnected from the frame and swung near the front of the housing from a mowing configuration to an access configuration as a front end of the mower is raised. The frame includes a yoke that receives a nose of the housing, as the front of the mower is raised.