[bontai Joe]

This one is selling at $474 as I type this, which I would consider cheap with the rare sickle mower attached. Here is a link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50377&item=4332190680&rd=1

 

[balmoralboy]

that sickle mower is a wicked looking thing. How does it work?

 

[bontai Joe]

Originally posted by balmoralboy
that sickle mower is a wicked looking thing. How does it work?

The teeth slide back and forth like a big hedge trimmer, and the arm can be lowered or raised to cut an area along side the tractor, like the bank or down in a ditch along a path or road. They work well on slopes where it would be too steep to drive the tractor with a mid-mount mower.

 

[balmoralboy]

Originally posted by bontai Joe
The teeth slide back and forth like a big hedge trimmer, and the arm can be lowered or raised to cut an area along side the tractor, like the bank or down in a ditch along a path or road. They work well on slopes where it would be too steep to drive the tractor with a mid-mount mower.

That makes sense, but what's with the sickle mounted on the end? It can't be moving fast enough to do anything?

 

[bontai Joe]

It took me a while to realize what you were referring to, That thing on the end I think acts more as a guide to allign the cut stuff as it falls down , more than anything else. I'm sure it does not do any cutting on it's own.

 

[balmoralboy]

Originally posted by bontai Joe
It took me a while to realize what you were referring to, That thing on the end I think acts more as a guide to allign the cut stuff as it falls down , more than anything else. I'm sure it does not do any cutting on it's own.

Thanks Joe! Where it's called a sickle bar, I wondered!