Sickle Type Mower Conditioner

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Good deal on the 925! BTW Badger (or Miller or whatever they called the company) sold the hay tool line to Artsway in IA. Not sure how thats going to work out for spare parts if MF doesnt have them.

What bolts are you using for the sections on your 925? Sometime this winter Im going thru my mowers so theyre ready for spring and at that time Im going to replace all of the rivets along w/ some broken sections.

 

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Sickle tooth bolts are a special formed deal with serations on the shank to grip into the cutter bar. These serations self-form into the hole left by the rivet. This usually means that you will need to pound them into the hole to get a nut started. Once threaded, the nut will pull the bolt through until the head seats. This makes changing the knives a breeze because the bolt will stay in position when later you remove/replace a knife. In fact you can do this without removing the cutter bar by moving it to an open section between the guards. Keep a short 3/8" box wrench in the tractor toolbox for this (and some extra nuts (they tend to crawl away in the middle of a field). TSC has boxed kits of bolts and nuts for this purpose with suffiicent quantity of all 3 required lengths. The nut is special, too. It has a rounded top to slide under clips with a crimped indent to lock the bolt in place. No washers are used.