Jubilee trams too fast

Cut quality varies with vegetation charactheristics if weed or hay or brush.

Personaly to have a good clean cut I take only the half of the mower width and return in opposite direction. It picks the plants missed by the first pass and chop already cut hay in tiny bits.

It does not take twice gas because 1/2 load
aprox 1/2 less gas it makes a beautiful clean cut and is easyer on the tractor.
And the bonus: 2 times mutch seat time.

My 2¢

Joe Ferguson

• Hobby farm

We farmed with Fords and Fergusons for many years. Used 1st or 2nd gear with bush hog and mostly 2nd gear with a sickle bar mower. These sppeds would be comparable to your jubilee.

Do not run engine at WOT as this will run the pto too fast. Rated speed for pto is 540 rpm. Engine speed should b e set at a little over half throtle.If your Jubilee has a tach use that to get the right engine speed.

Hope this helps. Have fun but be careful. steveormary

Soundguy

Seem to recollect a relative who once owned a Jubilee with a Sherman, complaining that mowing in low range also slowed his PTO speed below the effective operation RPMs of the bush hog.

First gear in a Jubilee is marginally too fast for some jobs, but mine works fine with a Dearborn flail mower, at reduced engine RPMs.

IIRC, ground speed is between 3 and 4MPH in first gear at max engine RPMs?