Re: CCM 165 Drum Mower

Posted by Texasmark1 on September 22, 2017 at 06:01:32 from (99.197.190.172):

In Reply to: Re: CCM 165 Drum Mower posted by Bret4207 on September 22, 2017 at 05:12:51:

I'm trying to remember when I bought mine.....I bought a new Branson 6530 in 2007 and I used it to unload my mower from a trailer when it
arrived. That puts my mower at around a 2008-2009 model.

The standard cutting height is set at 2" but I wanted more stubble so I ordered it with the 1" extension which the dealer installed for free
since I bought the mower and rake and harrow and 2 boxes of blades.....100 count, dual sided for twice the usage for $25 a box.....yes that's
25 cents each!!!!!! I'm not even half way through the first box! On stubble length, I took a measurement in a sorghum sudan field one day
just to see what it was and it was 4 ½ inches. That suits me fine.

What I like about the drum discs is that your stubble length is guaranteed, not hit and miss like was the case with my JD 1209's. Regrowth
for the second or third cutting is really dependent on the sugars stored in that stubble to get the regrowth started and no stubble or short
stubble, very retarded regrowth.....BTDT

Several years later I decided to double up on the cutters...each drum comes with 3 but there are places for 3 more which I chose to use. I
had to change the timing on the discs so that the additional blades would clear each other when rotating......reason for the change was I
just felt like doing it and I thought it'd be a good idea for cutting small stemmed grasses like Common Bermuda which is one of the grasses I
cut for hay and it doesn't grow very tall.

To change the timing you needed to slip a couple of teeth on the drive train to one of the drums. That means popping the cover and getting
into the drive train box. The drive mechanism is 4 HD belts on a shaft having a pinion output gear to the drum drive shaft which runs along
the top of the machine inside the long rectangular center section. The inside is about half full of 85w-140 gear oil so there is plenty of oil
for lube and cooling. There's nothing else in the drive line except the shaft, bearings, gears to the respective drums and 2 clamps to hold
the shaft in place and the similar gears on top of the drum shafts.

The drum has bearings at the top and bottom of the vertical shafts. The top discs containing the blades are driven but the bottom disc is
free wheeling so it can follow the terrain and react accordingly.

That's all there is to it. Built like a tank, few parts and they are very HD.

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