Posted by LenNH on February 06, 2009 at 10:03:37 from (71.235.191.159):
In Reply to: hay mowers posted by Phil R. in PA on February 03, 2009 at 12:03:14:
Can't speak much about modern hay farming. Did a lot of it the old way in the 40s, so here's a short comment on mowers. The 7' sickle-bar made to fit in place of the H drawbar is a snap to mount: loosen four toggle bolts, remove the drawbar (any guy can lift it), put the mower in its place. The mower has to be left on blocks to keep it at the level it was when you took it off--otherwise you may have to do some prying and shoving to get it up on the mounts where the toggle bolts are. There is another mower that worked just fine. My father had bought a 1938 F-12 with a 7' mounted mower. It fit the early H perfectly (small PTO shaft), and we ran it for years with no problems. The short-coupled drawbar-mounted mower makes for a very easy square turn, with a little braking on the tractor maybe needed at times. I even used the thing to trim the old zig-zag rail fences! Drive in, raise mower (by hand, ooof!), back out, turn left, back into other side of the zig-zag, drop mower, cut, repeat, repeat, repeat. Sounds kinda dumb now, but in the "old days" (notice I did NOT say "good old days"), farmers were judged by how clean their fences were. My father didn't seem to care, but I did and appointed myself the Keeper-of-the-Fences, until my right shoulder developed muscles as big as my head and made me look funny in front of all the pretty little things in high school. Without a power lift, it was a chore, so eventually I got smart and quit. I suppose nowadays, anybody with zig-zag fences would take a trimmer to them.
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