BCS: company's first hydraulic mower At Agritechnica
A great novelty debuting for BSC, the Italian maker of mowers and the like from Abbiategrasso near Milan, is the company's first hydraulically powered mower, the 660 WS HY.
With a front power takeout for frontally mounted tools, the operator can choose from a range of tools: the BladeRunner grass chopper, mowing bars, mowing heads with or without a bin for the cut grass, and any equipment needed for mountain pasture.
The power unit can be a 12 HP Subaru EX35 petrol engine or a 10 HP Yanmar LN1000 diesel. The company, founded in 1943 at a time when
The area near Milan was still highly agricultural, has kept on the best time-tested features from earlier models.
They include the patented PowerSafe clutch with a five-year guarantee, attached to the engine with multiple steel, hydraulically operated disks in an oil bath.
The company also pointed to oil bath gears for the power takeout transmission, light alloy for the engine and pump unit, helix oil bath gears for the primary transmission to the hydraulic engine and the straight oil bath cogs for the output transmission from the hydraulic engine.
There are multiple steel oil bath disks for the brake/clutch units on each wheel. The mower also has a system to close the steering brake before the clutch is opened to optimize control when working on sloping ground. The machine is two-speed, with a work and a transfer velocity, chosen by a manual command with no intermediate neutral position.
For this reason the motor-mower model 243 was created. This was among the first in the world self-propelled motor-mower, which represented a radical change in the agricultural sphere at that time, thanks to its great production capacity as well as to the concrete improvement given to the farmers' life.
Today, BCS production is active in several, different fields: forage equipment, professional machines for park maintenance, motor mowers, two-wheel tractors and specialized tractors. Since 1963, it has also been active in industrial machines, motor-welding machines and generating sets.
