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Help: Sickle Bar Woes

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Roger

03-12-2000 23:05:40




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I finally have a used rear mount Gaspardo FS530 sickle bar hooked up and operating correctly except . . . How do you set the angle of the sickle bar? Manually?? You mean I gotta lift the bar to the desired position and at the same time set a chain or cable to hold it in that position? I am ready to rig a come along to this beast, but then I'd really be a card carrying redneck.
Any suggestions would be appreciated since I don't have any literatue on this beast.

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ted

03-19-2000 17:32:26




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 Re: Help: Sickle Bar Woes in reply to Roger, 03-12-2000 23:05:40  
I'm don't know much about that brand of mower, and I don't know what you're really asking about. But..

If you are talking about the angle of the blade compared to the ground when it is raised(not transport) there should be a cable or chain to adjust it. When lowered, this cable loosens and allows the bar to float. The angle (and height) while cutting is determined by the skid plates under each end of the bar.(are you missing the skid plate on the end?)

The tilt of the bar (front to back (sickel to back of bar)) is made by adjusting the top link of the three pt. hitch.

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Tim(nj)

03-13-2000 20:35:28




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 Re: Help: Sickle Bar Woes in reply to Roger, 03-12-2000 23:05:40  
Most sickle mowers have two bar positions: transport (vertical) or operating (floating horizontally). To operate my MF sickle mower, I take the wingnut off the trasport rod, and let 'er drop (making sure that I'm out of the way first). The bar follows the ground contour on its skid plates. To go back to transport position, I manhandle the bar back to a vertical position, making sure to keep my fingers out of the guards (as the knife can move during the lifting process). Then I line up the transport rod with the hole in the bar, and put the wingnut back on. There is no intermediate operating position. The only sickle mowers I have seen that can be locked between positions are the hydraulically driven and positioned Triumph sickle mowers. Our county road crews used these, mounted on Ford 2000s, to mow the ditches, before the Alamo flail machines came along about 12 years ago.

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Aaron

03-13-2000 16:52:14




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 Re: Help: Sickle Bar Woes in reply to Roger, 03-12-2000 23:05:40  
Are you refering to the angle of the bar, like how high the end of the bar is off the ground? If so, then it just floats along the gorund on any mower I've ever worked with. Should be a cylinder in there to lift it as well. Must be missing some parts.
Aaron



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