IH 1300 Mower Questions on Using

JimHam

New User
I bought an old IH 1300 mower with 9 foot bar. Went through it replacing grease zerks and lubricating everything. Set it up on my Kubota M8200 and adjusted everything according to the operators manual. Bought it for mowing pond dam and around my pond banks. Manual says it will cut at most any angle. After mowing with it for about an hour it sheared off the rivets in the arm that drives the knives. I didn't hit anything and was mowing slowly, much more slowly than when I used to cut hay with a sickle bar when I was a kid. I could not put the inner shoe on the ground because of the angle of the dam and the pond banks. The outer shoe was hanging out over the water so there was a pretty good curve in the cutter bar. Seems to me that the curve of the bar would put the knives in a bind and could cause those rivets to shear off. I can't run the outer shoe on the ground and still mow my pond banks or it would be running in the mud and water. The angle of my pond banks change from almost flat to 30 degrees or more as I go around the pond.

Do both shoes need to be on the ground to cut with this mower?
 
Is it worth $150 to buy the IH rivet set tool? The knife sections on my mower are held on by screws but the drive arm is attached using rivets.

 
It isn't going to work for what you
want. Mowing with the bar that far
below level will continue to shear
rivets, break the pitman stick or
worse. You need a non pitman type
mower.
 
How sharp is your blade,dull sections cause lots of problems,if its been sharpened its dull you need new sections.And if you're getting that much curve a 7ft bar would help too.
 
Blades are sharp and the guards are in good shape with square cutting edges but everything is rusted because this mower hadn't been used much and must have set outside. My grandfather used to keep a coffee can of used motor oil with a paint brush in it and oiled the whole blade every time he started to mow. I did that because everything was so rusted.
I'm going to try to run the mower with both shoes on the ground I won't be able to get as close to the water as I wanted that way but it'll have to do I guess. I bought this 9 footer because it would mow the pond dams in two passes. A 7 footer would leave a 4 foot strip and the dam is too steep to make another pass in the middle
 
It will mow whatever position you want. Sounds to
me like your hold downs might not be adjusted
correctly?
 

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