ASABE Initiates Four Standards Projects for Mowers

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has initiated four standards projects for rotary disk, drum, and flail mowers.

Three of the projects will pursue the adoption, with deviations, of current ISO standards:

ISO 4254-12:2012, Agricultural machinery — Safety — Part 12: Rotary disc and drum mowers and flail mowers

ISO 17101-1:2012, Agricultural machinery – Thrown-object test and acceptance criteria – Part 1: Rotary mowers

ISO 17101-2:2012, Agricultural machinery – Thrown-object test and acceptance criteria – Part 2: Fail mowers

The remaining project, X639, Safety Standard for Large Row-Crop Flail Mowers, comprises the development of a new standard.

Currently there are no ASABE standards for all types of these mowers.

Conformance to ASABE standards is voluntary, except where required by state, provincial, or other governmental requirements, and the documents are developed by consensus in accordance with procedures approved by the American National Standards Institute.

For information on this or any other ASABE standard, contact Scott Cedarquist at 269-932-7031, cedarq@asabe.org. A current listing of all ASABE standards projects can be found on the ASABE web site at www.asabe.org/projects. S