Ever consider a sickle-bar mower? I live out on the high plaines of Colorado, which is grass-land desert. We have very little top-soil. I see folk out there on riding mowers and with brush hogs, and I see a cloud of dust around them wherever they go. Brush-hogs and riding mowers take what little top soil we have and throw it to the winds.
Then, I got a neighbor with a real Farmall cub that had a sickle-bar on it. That little tractor cut the high plaines grass with ease, and it was so quiet! No dust cloud. No high-revving little motor. My neighbor just calmly and quietly cut wide swaths of prairie. Alas, he moved right after he got the cub.
Ive had my eyes on a Case VA in the neighborhood. I'm not sure it is a complete tractor. It looks as if the guy took the engine off to rebuild it, and never got round to putting it back together. It has a sickle bar mower on it, and I'd hate to see it all get hauled off for scrap. It's been there for over 10 years.
I also just got a 3-pt for my M, and have been eyeballing 3-pt sickle bar mowers on e-bay.
Are sickle-bar mowers dangerous? Yes! It is very easy to lose a finger, especially when stowing the bar. But they have many advantages, too. For cutting boggy areas, they're much lighter than a brush hog. For cutting ditches or tall grass, don't discount a sickle bar mower.
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