Re: IH #1300 sickle mower

Posted by R. John Johnson on August 31, 2006 at 08:41:13 from (205.200.43.78):

In Reply to: IH #1300 sickle mower posted by Dan Robertson on August 30, 2006 at 04:47:23:

For what its worth. Broken bars on IH balanced head mowers are a part of life. There is a stress riser, in the form of the notch, at the point of maximum stress. After running them on this farm for over 40 years we have a pile of old broken bars. Like other posters said, they break again beside the weld. If you redrill, it may not cut right since the register of the knife may be wrong. A new bar is the most effective fix.

A local dealer here sells Rowse parts and says he has a fix. Rowse now builds the old IH mowers. They have widened out the inner shoe to add more support to the cutter bar. He claims that this will all but eliminate cracking of the bar. I don't know if this is true or not, but I bought one to try next year.

John

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