Application, Using This Manual, Introduction

Land Pride

Introduction

Table of Contents

Land Pride welcomes you to the growing family of new product owners. This implement has been designed with care and built by skilled workers using quality materials. Proper assembly, maintenance, and safe operating practices will help you get years of satisfactory use from this product.

Application

The heavy duty FM3188 and FM4188 Series Flail Mowers are designed and built to provide excellent cutting performance on gently sloping or slightly contoured right-of ways, roadsides, ditches, pastures, nurseries, and smaller fields of row crop debris, stalks, and residual agricultural growth.

Both are capable of cutting 88” wide and 1/2" to 6" high. The three-point Cat. I hitch is designed to be used on tractors with a maximum 80 PTO horsepower. Their hitch is designed with a screw type crank adjustment for 7 3/4" offset capability to the left or right making this mower even more desirable for cutting in and around trees with extremely low hanging branches. Its horizontal rotor cutting design greatly reduces the potential of launching projectiles out from under the mower making it an excellent choice for state and municipal mowing applications. Both models are complete with a 540 rpm Cat. 4 driveline.

The FM3188 model equipped with fine cutting knives will perform extremely well cutting material up to 1" in diameter or provide a very respectable quality of cut for grooming yards, municipal parks, medians, and right of ways.

The FM4188 model equipped with forged hammer knives and heavy duty brush rake teeth make this model well suited for nursery and agricultural applications where heavy grass, brush, prunings, saplings, small stumps, corn stocks and other row crop debris are present. The rake teeth will gather and aggressively force material into the rotor hammer knives for a more complete pulverization.

See “Specifications & Capacities” on page 21 and “Features and Benefits” on page 22 for additional information and performance enhancing options.

Using This Manual

•This Operator’s Manual is designed to help familiarize you with safety, assembly, operation, adjustments, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Read this manual and follow the recommendations to help ensure safe and efficient operation.

•The information contained within this manual was current at the time of printing. Some parts may change slightly to assure you of the best performance.

•To order a new Operator’s or Parts Manual contact your authorized dealer. Manuals can also be downloaded, free-of-charge from our website at www.landpride.com or printed from the Land Pride Service & Support Center by your dealer.

Terminology

“Right” or “Left” as used in this manual is determined by facing the direction the machine will operate while in use unless otherwise stated.

Definitions

NOTE: A special point of information that the operator must be aware of before continuing.

IMPORTANT: A special point of information related to its preceding topic. Land Pride’s intention is that this information should be read and noted before continuing.

Owner Assistance

The Warranty Registration card should be filled out by the dealer at the time of purchase. This information is necessary to provide you with quality customer service.

If customer service or repair parts are required contact a Land Pride dealer. A dealer has trained personnel, repair parts and equipment needed to service the mower.

The parts on your Flail Mower have been specially designed and should only be replaced with genuine Land Pride parts. Therefore, should your mower require replacement parts go to your Land Pride Dealer.

Serial Number Plate

For prompt service always use the serial number and model number when ordering parts from your Land Pride dealer. Be sure to include your serial and model numbers in correspondence also. Refer to Figure 1 for the location of your serial number plate.

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Serial Number Plate Location

Figure 1

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FM3188 & FM4188 Flail Mowers 309-523M