495man
Well-known Member
Been busy getting hay put up, we added a disc mower (NH HM235) to the equipment line up this year, replacing a sickle bar mower. Where as the sickle bar mower had a skid shoe on both ends of the cutter bar, the disc mower only has a skid shoe on the inner end.
The manual says run the remote in float to let the cutter bar follow contours, but if you do that you end up with the outer end cutting lower than the inner end (that sets the height), you can hold the bar in position with the remote cylinder, to cut even, but you have to eyeball it every time you pick up the mower and set it down, and of course you can't really see how it's cutting until after you've made a pass.
I normally leave the bar down except when turning left so it's not like a continuous set and reset.
Do other disc mowers have an outboard shoe? Didn't even think of that when we bought this one. I don't want the entire cutter bar dragging on the ground as most of our fields are rougher and I don't need the cutter bar kicking back all the time.
The manual says run the remote in float to let the cutter bar follow contours, but if you do that you end up with the outer end cutting lower than the inner end (that sets the height), you can hold the bar in position with the remote cylinder, to cut even, but you have to eyeball it every time you pick up the mower and set it down, and of course you can't really see how it's cutting until after you've made a pass.
I normally leave the bar down except when turning left so it's not like a continuous set and reset.
Do other disc mowers have an outboard shoe? Didn't even think of that when we bought this one. I don't want the entire cutter bar dragging on the ground as most of our fields are rougher and I don't need the cutter bar kicking back all the time.
