Sickle Bar Flushing bars for wildlife

[mark ludwig]

Hi folks,
I am working on a project in Michigan which will be providing flushing bars to farmers to reduce dammage to wildlife during hay harvest. I have a proven design for tractor drawn mowers, but find little information on bars for self propelled mowers. Anybody out there got plans or expirience? How about industry contacts with OEM's who might be helpful. I have attached the plans from Ducks Unlimited Canada for those who are interested. Feel free to e mail off list or post here.
Mark P. Ludwig
Allegan Conservation District
Conservation Innovation Grant Technician
Balancing Agricultural Production and Grassland Bird Reproduction
269-673-8965 ex 4
616-240-7135 cell
mark.ludwig@macd.org

 

[mark ludwig]

And all you folks who frequent a lot of lists like this feel free to repost this or pass it along to others. I have been getting some good input from some OEMs, looking for more!

 

[Mistyridgefarm]

Just a thought, think about a quick attach loader option. I may just try to make up one. It might have saved that new born fawn this last July that didn't move a bit till the disk mower was a foot from her. I really hated that!

 

[mooseracing]

Ferguson used to make an attachemnt like that back in the 50's, didn't think it was 3 point though.

 

[mark ludwig]

See our website on the Flushing Bar Project here
Flushing bar project
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