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Anyone use their sickle bar mower to maintain horse pasture?

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Ken Goth (MO)

08-02-2001 05:14:17




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I have a 5-6 acre horse pasture that we hay once a year and then I mow it 2-3 times more before winter. In past years a local farmer did the haying so I did the additional mowing using a 5ft brush hog. It normally takes about 6 hours to mow with the brush hog. This year I did the baling with my own equipment including a 7ft 501 sickle bar. Was surprised when I was able to mow the hay in less than two hours. Now that the weeds are starting to get high again (12"-15") I need to mow. Is there any drawbacks to using the sickle bar to maintain the pasture (leaving the clippings in the field)?
Thanks for the advice,
Ken

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Kermit

08-02-2001 16:44:32




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 Re: Anyone use their sickle bar mower to maintain horse pasture? in reply to Ken Goth (MO), 08-02-2001 05:14:17  
Tried it one time using a clipping wheel attached to the outer end of the cutter bar. Kept having trouble with the clipping wheel. I also didn't care for the cutter bar flexing all the time. I use a brush hog to pasture clip and am very satisfied with it. I feel it helps shatter out seed from the stems and lets it drop on the ground. Some of it may help reseed the pastures if I'm lucky.



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Jerry D in NC

08-02-2001 08:12:52




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 Re: Anyone use their sickle bar mower to maintain horse pasture? in reply to Ken Goth (MO), 08-02-2001 05:14:17  
To remove the weeds and other debris that will get picked up in next years hay you could mow it with the bar and bale it and use the bales for erosion control. If you are just grazing the field it will be OK but if you are baling horse hay you will find some of those stems in next years hay. The bush hog cuts it up finer but more than that it breaks that stem in several places causing it to rot faster. I like the sickle bar but I only bale cow hay for that first early cutting and then let the horses graze. The bar seems to spread the "potty piles" letting them rot faster as well.

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Bob (WI)

08-02-2001 05:29:18




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 Re: Anyone use their sickle bar mower to maintain horse pasture? in reply to Ken Goth (MO), 08-02-2001 05:14:17  
I think the only thing you have to worry about is the cutting bar will get plugged up in any clumps of hay from the last cutting where as a bush hog will just cut the clump up and keep going, other than that we used to cut with a sickle mower 2 or 3 times a year and had very few problems.



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