Posted by Don-Wi on June 22, 2014 at 21:50:34 from (75.205.97.82):
Saturday I pulled the NI 290 out to rebuild the sickle guards a little bit.
The sickle itself hasn't been in too long and only needed a few sections replaced, but most of the guards were rounded off instead of square cornered. Always worked good in alfalfa, but lately I've been picking up more grass and it's always had fits in really fine grass.
I ordered all new guards, wear plates, and hold down clips for it from Webb's sickle service earlier this week.
It had a mixmatch of guards on it as fleet farm no longer stocks the "proper" ones for this machine. We found JD guards were close enough (only difference we could tell was slightly shorter) so we had probably 1/2 of them swapped out to JD guards over the years.
Now it's got all brand new guards, wear plates, and hold down clips that are adjusted up snug. I replaced 5 sections that were either busted from my last cutting last year, or worn funny or damaged.
I looked at the spare sickle we have for it, but it needs to be completly rebuilt with new sections (they're not bad, but a few are bent one way of the other and others are just worn) so I'll back burner that one for now. 34 sections plus the 1 1/2 at the end are needed for it, plus 70 new bolts which we're running low on.
Only other things I found were a failing bearing on the reel, and the slip clutch material on the reel sprocket is breaking up. We've got a spare from our parts machine (Ford 535) somewhere in the shed...
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