I'm Ted from Everything Attachments, and I'm here to show you the Sigma Grooming Mower. This is a rear discharge finish mower made by...branded as The Phoenix Corporation, comes from Italy. It has a lot of different features, a lot of adjustments, and a lot of reasons why we've picked this mower to be the best. We sold most of all them: Woods, Land Pride, Bush Hog, and for the performance, it's as good or better as any of the others. And for the value, it's a lot better than the others, and I'm gonna show you why and give you some of the features and how you'll adjust your mower.
One thing to remember, when you get your mower, it'll be a in a crate. It will not be fully assembled, it will be mostly assembled, but this mower uses a twin belt design. Instead of one big, real expensive belt like most use, these use two fairly mid-sized belts that are less than half the price of that one big belt. So when you get ready to assemble it, the only major thing to do... This gearbox is not gonna be on this machine when you get it. This whole plate will be bolted together, so what most people do is they bolt this on first, but the bad part about that is the belts have to be put under this gearbox before it's bolted down. So when you go to change belts, you're simply gonna loosen up your two bolts here, lift it up a little, slide your belts under it. So just remember when you assemble it, put the belts under there before you bolt that gearbox down and the rest of it'll be a breeze.
Okay, let's get on with the features. On this mower, it has a fully adjustable clevis hitch here, so what you wanna make sure is when you raise your mower and your tire would be flipped in the position forward, which it's not normally in, but if it swings around, you don't want it to catch your tire and tear up your yoke on your mower. So you can adjust how far back your mower is here. And you want it to be as close to the machine as your can, but not hit the tire. So there's your adjustment for that.
It's gonna come with both pins in here, and that's gonna lock it solid and that's the way most mowers are. But if your land varies, the only adjustment it has to not pick up one side of the mower or the other, is if it has a floating hitch. So that lets you go on uneven ground and lets your mower follow the contour of your ground, instead of picking up one side or the other. So that's important.
Some of the other features are, this is where you're gonna hook up your top link. And most things have a rigid hook up, you simply put your pin in like a box blade or something. But on a mower, because your ground varies, if this was solid, when you would go across a knoll, it would pick the back of your mower up, so that's no good. So I usually adjust this, where this is about a 45 degree angle, and that gives me a lot of room for the mower to float up and down and not pick it up or push down on it. You wanna make sure that these safety chains are also hooked up on both ends. This one needs to go around somewhere on the mower, and this one needs to go somewhere on your tractor, I usually use the top link.
Now on a mower, it's very rare, and I don't know of any case, really, that you're gonna need to cut your PTO shaft. It should work with about any tractor with no problem. The adjustment for your height on your mower, you're simply gonna raise it up, take out your [inaudible 00:03:52] here, and change the bushings from the top to the bottom. If you put all the bushings at the top, it's gonna be mowing in its lowest position. Same way if you put all the bushings at the bottom, you're gonna be mowing in your highest position. We picked somewhere in the middle, hope this is about right. It's easy to change.
If you have a lot of certain kind of, like, box woods or certain type of shrubs and you're gonna be turning and going under them and you know you don't change your height much, you might wanna replace these with a bolt, so these can't...it's hard to get these off, but still yet, it's an expensive loss if you do get them knocked off and you lose your spindle and all your bushings and so forth. So if you've got a lot of bushes that are really tough, you might want to change those out with bolts. It's real easy to grease. You just push your grease gun right through here, three different places. Spindles are just...are grease-able here, your wheel is also greaseable. Now this comes in a solid tire or a rubber tire model, or an air tire model. I prefer the solid tire simply because I can't have a flat. You can get either, we sell mostly the solid tires.
Does have oil in the gearbox, it comes with the oil in it, so you won't have to mess with that. It's heavy construction. All we used to sell was side discharges and now all we sell is rear discharges, just about. So a lot of the mowers, like a Bush Hog, a Woods mower, which you're gonna pay a lot more for, if you look at the back of it, it's really long. And this, if you'll notice on this one, this one discharges all the way from one side to the other side, so it lets it spread out just a little bit. On a Woods mower, it comes back really far and narrows up. This part of the mower does not discharge at all, so what you end up with is kind of a windrow look, like it needs be raked and baled. This is gonna let it scatter out, leave a more even pattern, and not give you that windrow effect.
So we mowed this with the Bad Boy mower yesterday, and we've left a patch simply for this demonstration here with the rear discharge mower. And this is a 540 RPM mower. What I usually recommend is open your tractor to full throttle, back it off just enough to hear the difference, and that's usually about where I mow. This mower has a very high blade tip speed and will leave as good a cut as a Bad Boy mower, or any other body's mower that's on the market. He's just trying to pick the right gear to mow in. So he's mowing pretty high grass, and as you can see, it's spreading it out good, it's not leaving a windrow.
So if you've already got a tractor, you've got your biggest investment covered. You know, if you don't wanna spend the money for a zero turn mower, your tractor's 90% of the expense, put you a good finished mower on the back. Especially for big acreage, a rear discharge mower...yeah I would rather ride a tractor all day to mow six or eight acres as I would a zero turn mower. If you'll notice, the few clods that have been left in this patch of grass from the Bad Boy mower because the rear discharge discharges all the way across, it doesn't leave clods of grass in any direction because it has such a wider path to discharge out of the back. So he's getting what grass hasn't been mowed, plus all the grass from this whole lot in that area that wasn't mowed yet.
It looks just as good as what I mowed yesterday with a Bad Boy mower. See, we picked the right height, looks to me like right off the bat, we didn't have to adjust the bushings. It's left the grass loose on top here. There's no clods, it's gonna dry quick, dissipate quick. It's like putting the mulch back into your yard instead of bagging it or something. It looks to me like it didn't leave one single piece standing. It's the best finishing mower on the market there is, especially for the money.
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