Sickle Bar Sickle Bar Mower

[Darren]

Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but I've chopped down lots of stuff larger than 1/2" with my Enorossi sicklebar. I ease into it. the shrub starts shaking, and TIMBER! Never had a problem with the guards. To be fair any rocks I might encounter are too large to fit between the guards.

 

[armyret]

I appreciate all who replied, this is a follow upquestion do you thunk perhaps i am going to slow? [/list]

 

[Egon]

Try different speeds. Emperical observations. Is sickle cutting speed independant of your forward speed?

Egon

 

[nomad]

Mow at the lowest tractor speed and at the the highest PTO speed... This is the best to cut the grass in general and the wet grass in particular. However, your PTO speed will have to be limited because the technology in the sicklebar mower won't permit you high linear speed in the knife bar. So, find the highest PTO speed till you break somethings by real field scientific experiements.

 

[HayDR]

How is the Rug & propane cannon business, Nomad?

 

[KiotiJohn]

Mark, why do you always pick on Nomad? Does he push some button in your psyche that hurts? Sometimes you're just going for the throat, without reason it seems. John

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue"> Mark, why do you always pick on Nomad? </font>

John, I thought Mark ony picked on me. I dont mind too much. I know when he is picking on me, he is leaving everyone else alone /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif--Ken Sweet
Sweet Farm Equipment LLC *New D&G Italian 3 Point Backhoes for 40-60 HP tractors $4500*

 

[HayDR]

Ken,
I'm glad to see you monitor my posts as thousands of customers are doing. Some news of interest is we are 95% complete on our new 10,000 sq.ft. distribution center here in Johnson City, TN. Thanks to the thousands of TBN viewers that have made much of this possible. Mark Carter
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[sweettractors]

Congratulations to you and your Uncle Clyde and William. I am sure they appreciate the new found internet business sales /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif We wish you continued success--Ken Sweet
Sweet Farm Equipment LLC *New 5-6-7 ft Double Action Sickle Mowers in Stock TODAY*

 

[nckennedy]

Thanks for the insight. How important is the grass catcher/board on the end of a sickle bar mower? Mine is clogging up on the opposite end, pitman end. Is it because the grass cut on the last pass is falling to close to the uncut grass on the next pass around the field?
Also noticed that the guards near the pitman end of the bar seem to have more space between them and the knife. Could that also cause tearing rather than a clean cut? If so, I am not sure how to adjust that? Just by shimming? Probably do not want to try to bend the guards with a hammer?
Thanks,
Craig