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critter farm

06-09-2007 19:44:54

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just bought a 7ft. ford 501. went to the dealership today and picked up a new bar and having trouble getting it to set down to the ledger plates, the manuel says to beat them up with a hammer to run even with the bar but i dont think i used a big enough hammer as they would not move. also, are the shims for the bar supposed to be under the edge of the bar or parallel to hole it straight. thanks for any info.

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Gene Stevens

06-11-2007 06:30:19

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Re: Ford 501 sickle mower in reply to critter farm, 06-09-2007 19:44:54

I am still looking for the female (tractor side) PTO shaft for the 501. Any help in finding one would be helpful.

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Gene
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06-10-2007 08:40:55

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Re: Ford 501 sickle mower in reply to critter farm, 06-09-2007 19:44:54

Google up "stern hold down clips". These are spring loaded and they push the sicle down onto the ledger plates. It made my 501 cut way better.

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`Bernie in MA

06-10-2007 08:35:36

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Re: Ford 501 sickle mower in reply to critter farm, 06-09-2007 19:44:54

I used to put shims in the back side of the guards to cock the front side up on my Hesston's stub guards. Then I found out I could put them in my hydraulic hand press to bend them.

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Tom in TN

06-10-2007 05:20:58

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Re: Ford 501 sickle mower in reply to critter farm, 06-09-2007 19:44:54

Critter,

I have a Ford 501 sickle bar mower with a 6 ft. bar. I have tried many, many times to bend the rock guards up so that the ledger plates would be closer to the sickle sections. I've had very little luck doing so. I've never had any luck hammering the rock guards when they are installed on the bar, and I've only had slightly more success by removing the guard, putting it into a vise, and hammering it then. I've even tried heating the guard with it in the vise, and still had limited success bending it.

I've even tried gringing the mating surface off the rock guard to raise the ledger plate to get it closer to the sickle bar.

I've finally resigned myself to leaving them alone if the ledger plate is within about an eighth or quarter of an inch from the sickle segment.

That probably isn't right, but it works for me.

Good luck.

Tom in TN

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paul

06-10-2007 19:55:29

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Re: Ford 501 sickle mower in reply to Tom in TN, 06-10-2007 05:20:58

Torch, leave them on the sickle, heat the neck of the gaurd, bend the tip up with a pipe. Dad made a bender, inch shaft 4 feet long with a U piece on it to fit over the guard tip.

--->Paul

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