When slip clutch works properly, it allows slippage so you DON'T break the pitman stick. It's suppose to slip, so you do 't break the stick. It's kind of a preventative measure, and can be kind of a fine line between slipping, and breaking the stick instead. So it's possible to break the stick anyways.
If slip clutch fails, it's doesn't fail to slip. It fails to not slip. So, it might run the sickle when your just sitting there, but put the bar in the grass to mow, and it'll slip instead of running the sickle. Then you have to fix it. If it's one that's inside a gear box, it can be a chore.
Maybe mowing tuff wire grass in true prairie hay field is a local thing. Maybe accounts for this being un-heard of for you guys. But I'm surprised you guys have never mowed into some actual wire, piece of chain, electric fence post, steel post, a stick of wood, small tree stump, or a big gob of plastic baling twine and never broke a pitman stick or had a related problem. Even a good operator I think, would have to mow into something once in awhile that they didn't see in the grass. And you certainly don't always knock out a section, or break a guard. Break something else.
Maybe I've just seen some tuffer going than most. I don't know.
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