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AL SILVA

05-14-2003 10:01:27




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Can a sickle bar mower be used in the vertical position to trim bushes and hedges? I have a ford 4000 and I am interested in buying a sickle bar mower if I can use it to trim with.




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Dick Kline

05-16-2003 09:29:00




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 Re: sickle bar mower in reply to AL SILVA, 05-14-2003 10:01:27  
Some of the IH mowers will work not only upright but also will drop below horizontal which is handy for doing ditches or the breast of a dam. You can tell them by looking at the mower. If there is a long belt running from the the mower drive shaft to a box on the end of the cutter bar, that is what you want. That box actually changes the rotary motion of the PTO to back and forth need for the mower. The one I used in the 60's was center hung on an IH 504 utility and was a great setup because you never had to take the mower off and you didn't have to turn around to see what you were doing.

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Sid

05-14-2003 18:34:01




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 Re: sickle bar mower in reply to AL SILVA, 05-14-2003 10:01:27  
I have taken my Allis twin wheel drive and with the cutter bar up driven along side fence rows and trimed small limbs and brush hanging over or through fence . If you can find an old hiway mower they work in an upright position and the blade can be moved from horziontal to vertical position from the seat. If you want to trim hedges though I would think a hedge trimmer would do a nicer job.



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AL SILVA

05-15-2003 06:41:38




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 Re: Re: sickle bar mower in reply to Sid, 05-14-2003 18:34:01  
Thank you Sid, I have seen the old highway mowers trimming bushes and was wondering what kind of mower they were using. They now are using flail mowers.



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CURT

05-14-2003 13:05:33




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 Re: sickle bar mower in reply to AL SILVA, 05-14-2003 10:01:27  
Not with a pitman mower. How would you control it if you could use a pitmanless mower?



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AL SILVA

05-15-2003 06:46:25




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 Re: Re: sickle bar mower in reply to CURT, 05-14-2003 13:05:33  
Thank you Curt. I'm not too knowledgeable about attachments for tractors. Just trying to trim these trees and bushes from my 20 acres. It's kinda hard to do by hand.



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CURT

05-15-2003 10:28:00




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 Re: Re: Re: sickle bar mower in reply to AL SILVA, 05-15-2003 06:46:25  
Yeah, Al it would sure be nice if somebody could come up with an easy to use and affordable way to trim brush and small limbs around woods that overhang tillable land. It seems that we lose a foot or two a year.



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