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SteveMC

06-15-2000 07:06:32




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I am finding that there are many places I am not comfortable with driving the tractor to mow: the steep banks of the ponds, around trees with low limbs, around the sink holes, among groves of trees, the gullys and around stumps. I guess I need to do alot of landscaping to make those areas more tractor-friendly. Someone told me I should get a sickle mower, but they cost $3800 and that only gives me one more pass around. I think I will need to use a push mower, but that is a lot of work. Maybe I need cattle or goats. What does other people do about these areas?

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Dale (MI)

06-30-2000 11:29:56




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 Re: Sickle mower in reply to SteveMC, 06-15-2000 07:06:32  
For that price I assume that mower can handle any incline. I got an old sickle bar mower for $125 that I use to do roadsides and over ditches. The mower bar can only be operated in line with the pittman arm (not up or down an incline) but I have rotated the whole mower with the 3 pt. hitch arms in order to mow an embankment.



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Sheeps

06-15-2000 07:37:17




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 Re: Sickle mower in reply to SteveMC, 06-15-2000 07:06:32  



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Works for me!

06-15-2000 09:53:57




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 Re: Re: Sickle mower in reply to Sheeps, 06-15-2000 07:37:17  
I think the previous poster may have been kidding to some degree, but I'm serious here. I keep 6 adult sheep and whatever lambs they see fit to provide. They keep about three acres nicely trimmed. Some of it was all scrub brush when they started, now it's all nice grass.

Plus, you get to eat the lambs... Yummy! If you get the right sort of sheep, they're very low maintenance. I have Shetlands, which are a small, very docile breed. Most of the adults are as tame as a lapdog. A big ram might weigh 100 pounds, most of the ewes go closer to 70 pounds. 6 month lambs dress out around 25-30 pounds. Maintenance is trimming hooves and worming quarterly, and keeping water in front of them. In the winter, with no other feed, 6 of them will go through a 40 pound bale of hay per day.

Any of the 'primitive' or 'unimproved' breeds will do. I like 'em much better than goats, they're not nearly as prone to escaping.

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Sheeps

06-15-2000 16:30:30




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 Re: Re: Re: Sickle mower in reply to Works for me!, 06-15-2000 09:53:57  
Wasn't kidding, just not very good at typing.



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