Sickle Bar new sickle bar mower

[Michelle K linnane]

I have been looking for a sickle bar mower for almost 1 1/2 years. Most everything I have seen is junk. I am seriously considering buying a new one, I am afraid to ask this question has anybody priced one I want this to mow around my ponds and ditches and along the road.
thank you
Michelle
stonewall boarding and game farm

 

[Chuck_Lind]

I was also looking for a sickle bar mower and only saw junk. I priced a New Holland 451...you're talking about $4500 to $5000 for a new one. Forget it...I'll use my LandPride rotary cutter.

 

[zzvyb6]

The old "junk" is usually easy to fix up and maintain. Prices fairly represent the cost of producing a manufactured product, considering that our government dislikes a "dirty" manufacturing economy, buyers always choose low price over domestic based production loyalty, and we've become a service based economy. You want fries with that?

 

[nomad]

...$4500 to $5000 for a new one.

What!? Just for a sickle bar mower? Too much.

But, sickle bar mower will not work well in humid regions like yours. A rotary cutter for rough cut or at least a small drum mower will do better work for better cut. If you don't have it there, I can ship from here (more than 10,000 miles!) for 2000 USD (door to door

 

[tractorhal]

ck JD/ Frontier, theres a couple of foreign makes that are double acting that work well in wet hay. Also Carter Machinery, Sweet Equipt.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Keep looking. Look at a REAL farm equipment dealer (as opposed to a lawn/turf/homeowner equip dealer) OCCASIONALLY...you'll find later model sickle bar cutters that have been traded in. They ain't gonna be cheap, but they ain't gonna be $4500/$5000. I've seen (this summer) NH451's and Deere 350's that aren't a lot more than just barely broke in. Prices range from $1500 to $2500. I owned a NH451 for 40 years. Good mower. That said, the JD350 is a rock solid, very durable, good cutting mower that works well with just about any brand of tractor.

 

[ToadHill]

It can b e yours for $650.

 

[Solo]

I was talking to a New Holland dealer the other day, and I think he told me the NH 451 was around $7000 and not made by New Holland anymore. Was I hearing things or does anyone know this for sure?

Solo

 

[thatguy]

My dad had an old sickle mower for his 8n that he gave away to a neighbor years ago. it was very rusty but worked. I wish I had it now to fix up and play with..

It was so old that it had a wooden pitman arm, so the cutting edge could not be moved except horizontally..

 

[Michelle K linnane]

thank you for your posts, but $7000 I can buy a bat wing mower for that and a woods to boot. Also the sickle mower listed what kind was it I may be interested?