ASABE Approves Rotary, Flail Mower Standards

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has adopted four standards that address the safety and testing of rotary disk, drum and flail mowers.

Three of the documents are international standards, adoption of which further harmonizes national and international standardization. 

The adoptions are:

ANSI/ASABE AD4254-12: 2012, Agricultural machinery—Safety —Part 12: Rotary disc and drum mowers and flail mowers;

ASABE/ISO 17101-1:2012, Agricultural machinery—Thrown-object test and acceptance criteria—Part 1: Rotary mowers;

ASABE/ISO 17101-2:2012 JUN2016, Agricultural machinery—Thrown-object test and acceptance criteria—Part 2: Flail mowers.

The fourth standard, ANSI/ASABE S639, Safety Standard for Large Row-Crop Flail Mowers, is a new national standard.

The scope of the three nationally adopted standards can be accessed electronically at the society’s digital Technical Library: elibrary.asabe.org/. The standard can be purchased for a fee directly from the library or by contacting ASABE headquarters at OrderStandard@asabe.org.

For ANSI/ASABE S639, ASABE members with standards access and those with site-license privileges can access the full text of the standard at the Technical Library. Others can obtain a copy for a fee by sending a request to OrderStandard@asabe.org.