Yesterday my father-in-law, Joe, worked on getting an old sickle bar mower attached and running on my tractor. He removed all the teeth and then put them back on, replacing some broken ones. But the big problem was figuring out how to mount it. The mower was specifically designed for my obsolete 2-point hitch and it seemed to just rest on the ground when mounted. We finally came to accept that it was supposed to do that — which means a low cut for sure, and lots of opportunities to hit rocks.
The most impressive work that he did was to remove a stuck bolt with a round head. In a million years I wouldn’t have thought to file down the edges of the bolt in order to get a wrench around it.
Anyway, the good news is that we got it going.
When the PTO engages those blades move fast!
I’ll be trying it out when I harvest my second buckwheat crop in a week or so.
1 response so far ↓
1 Skip // Sep 12, 2007 at 2:50 pm
David – do be careful with all that farm equipment – those things scare me!