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Hydro-clipper sickle bar mower

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walterep

08-02-2006 08:37:41

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I have a Triumph Hydro-Clipper hydraulic sicklebar mower, designed to be side mounted on a tractor. These were commonly used by highway crews for roadside mowing. I'd like to have a mounting fabricated so that I could attach the mower to a three point hitch on my tractor. Has anyone out there tried this before, or does anyone have experience with these mowers?

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Phil Tibbetts

08-05-2006 19:17:46

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Re: Hydro-clipper sickle bar mower in reply to walterep, 08-02-2006 08:37:41

I don't know how happy you would be with a 3 PT hitch hookup on one of these. I think the reason they were side mounted was to be able to watch the mower at all times while mowing roadsides. This is important as there is untold junk in the ditches. The spring loaded trip does not work well for me mowing hay as if the cutter bar drags too hard it will swing back and then come back ahead so quickly that it pushes the grass over. I would like to find one of the latch trip heads to replace it with. I use it to mow the sides of my woods roads. The best part is I can cut with the cutter bar straight up to trim off branches that grow out into the road. It is a great machine for what it was designed to do

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Fighting suburbia in NC

08-02-2006 10:43:51

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Re: Hydro-clipper sickle bar mower in reply to walterep, 08-02-2006 08:37:41

I have one attached to the right side of my 63 Ford 2000 (or maybe it is more like the tractor is attached to it). All that weight would twist up a 3 point hitch if it was not counterbalanced correctly. Also, the action of the hydraulic motor is not the most balanced what with it pushing and pulling on the knifebar. Counteracting the oscillation of the assembly hung out on the 3 point hitch would require some doing, I think.

I reckon there is a reason or two why all the ones you see are midmount, but if you figure out how to do it let me know - I have a complete second unit sitting in storage that might be a good candidate for that treatment instead of trying to adapt it to fit another tractor.

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walterep

08-02-2006 11:50:57

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Re: Hydro-clipper sickle bar mower in reply to Fighting suburbia in NC, 08-02-2006 10:43:51

Sounds like you have some experience. Maybe I'll explore a customized sidemount bracket. Do you like using the mower? It seems heavy duty and has good hydraulics to raise and lower. I also have a NH451 7', but its so long and limber it doesn't lend itself to the knid of mowing I'm doing.

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Fighting suburbia in NC

08-03-2006 03:31:25

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Re: Hydro-clipper sickle bar mower in reply to walterep, 08-02-2006 11:50:57

I might be able to be talked into letting loose the underslung sidemount brackets I have (I want to hang on to the pump and hydraulic motor for spares). I was told when I bought it that the brackets were for a Ford, which model I do not know. I will see if there are any distinguishing marks the next time I dig that deep in the barn.

BTW - I saw a DOT contract road mower with a sidemount hydraulic sickle this weekend, out in the country. It surprised me because it is the first one I have seen in many years out on the road. When the NCDOT went to contracting the road mowing they sold off most of their flail mowers, which apparently got bought up by the contract mowing operations. The sidemount road mowers you see now are all flails, it seems.

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IH2444

08-02-2006 09:16:29

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Re: Hydro-clipper sickle bar mower in reply to walterep, 08-02-2006 08:37:41

I would think you would need to counterweight the opposite side of the 3 point hitch to keep things stable. Even with that I am not sure it would be stable enough to properly use.

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