Re: How do you maintain the cutter bar on the Sickle Bar Mower?

Posted by Harold Hubbard on February 17, 2002 at 05:46:28 from (216.114.181.174):

In Reply to: How do you maintain the cutter bar on the Sickle Bar Mower? posted by Mark Hendershot on February 16, 2002 at 21:28:55:

If you can find a copy of John Deere's Care and Repair of Farm Equipment, or Shop Work on the Farm, these books both have a preety good description of sickle bar maintainance. Tis may not be the exact title of the John Deere book, but should be close enough to find it by. John Deere published several editions of this, from, I think, some time in the 1920's, up until the early 50's.

I have been, shall we say, intimately aqquainted, with sickle bar mowers for the last 40+ years, and it seems that I'm still learning. I will say that in any kind of good going, I would rather run one than a brush hog any day. They can be really frustrating when they don't work right, and it seems as if I have spent almost as much time fixing and fiddling as I have mowing. I mow about 50 acres a year for myself and other people, as well as trimming around 80 acres of hay land. I also do some brush hogging, but as I said before, not if I can help it.

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