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BAnNC
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That combination still doing a great job. Spent many hours running one similar as a youngster. Thanks for posting.
Dieseltech
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Neat! I've been mowing some thistles with a Ford 6000 using an IH 100 9 foot sickle mower, knocks a lot down fast using eighth gear.
Blackhole49
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I know you cut hay commercially for profit, do you use the sickle for fun or because of the size and location of the field?
Absent Minded Farmer
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No deer were made shorter in the making of this film.
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Mike
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Mike
I, too, spent more time than I care to remember cutting prairie hay with an IHC MD
with a 7 ft. Deere #5 mower and a dump rake.. Dad put up a LOT of hay, never ran short.
Always had some hay left over from year to year. And at that time, we didn't bale.
All put up loose with a Deere G with a Farmhand F-11. Dad wouldn't let me work on the haystacks.
I couldn't make the stacks right. Dad could make the most beautiful square sided stacks
in the neighborhood. Then in the fall, we'd haul the stacks home, one truckload at a time.
Finally, he started renting a neighbors Farmhand Stackmover. I thought we'd died and
gone to heaven!!!
with a 7 ft. Deere #5 mower and a dump rake.. Dad put up a LOT of hay, never ran short.
Always had some hay left over from year to year. And at that time, we didn't bale.
All put up loose with a Deere G with a Farmhand F-11. Dad wouldn't let me work on the haystacks.
I couldn't make the stacks right. Dad could make the most beautiful square sided stacks
in the neighborhood. Then in the fall, we'd haul the stacks home, one truckload at a time.
Finally, he started renting a neighbors Farmhand Stackmover. I thought we'd died and
gone to heaven!!!
Thanks for the replies and comments. I especially enjoyed reading the ones regarding using a sickle mower back in the day.
Oddly enough, as much as many hate the sickle mower, it was a great advancement on the farm - displacing a mowing scythe.
When the sickle mower is clicking, it is a pleasure to run and music to the ears and no 10,000 dollar repairs to a 300 dollar sickle mower either, even if you hit a tree with it!
Bill
Oddly enough, as much as many hate the sickle mower, it was a great advancement on the farm - displacing a mowing scythe.
When the sickle mower is clicking, it is a pleasure to run and music to the ears and no 10,000 dollar repairs to a 300 dollar sickle mower either, even if you hit a tree with it!
Bill
Blackhole49
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- White Lake MI
Thanks.
Probably the only new piece of exempt dad ever bought was a Case pull type sickle mower. The government set a side had to be cut every year.(CRP now a days) JD70. THen during hay season I went to the neighbors and cut hay with his 165D Massey and the Dyna Balance mower. I liked using the JD beacuse you sat up high above the hay.
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