Patent ID: 8099936

Claim:
A flail mower assembly comprising: a deck; a shaft rotatably connected to the deck; a flail drum connected to the shaft and co-rotatable with the shaft; a plurality of flail blade assemblies independently rotatably connected to the flail drum to provide two degrees of freedom-of-rotation of individual ones of the plurality of flail blade assemblies independent of a direction of drum rotation; a first electric motor connected to the deck and rotatably connected to the shaft, the first electric motor rotating the shaft when energized; a second electric motor connected to the deck and rotatably connected to the shaft, the second electric motor adapted to rotate the shaft when energized; and a control device operating to select an operating mode of the first and second electric motors including: a first operating mode having only the first electric motor energized; a second operating mode having only the second electric motor energized; and a third operating mode having both the first and second electric motors simultaneously energized.