Re: haying

Posted by TimS on June 20, 2005 at 07:40:14 from (204.167.177.68):

In Reply to: haying posted by Jon Holt on June 19, 2005 at 14:10:51:

I feel your pain, we went thru that last season while getting our antique baling gear in shape.

For the mowers, that old dead stuff from last year will make it real tough to cut, you just have to keep unplugging and go on. Sharp sickle sections, rock guards adjusted if needed so they are in close tolerance to the sickle sections moving back and forth, check wear plates and hold downs so the sickle bar is moving back and forth nice and tight against the rock guards, not slopping up and away from the guards where it can get grass in between and plug. If in doubt, buy some sickle sections, hold downs, wear plates, and sickle section bolts and redo all of it. You can redo all of it for under 100 dollars pretty easily, you might also consider picking up a spare sickle bar to have to swap in if the sections get dulled up midday while cutting.

On the rake, have someone drive the tractor while you walk behind and watch it work, if it has a chain the bearings under the chain sprockets may be shot allowing the sprocket to wobble and bind the chain, we had that problem.

Fresh chain and a new bearing has ours working great.

If it is a drive shaft coming from the rake axle, check the drive shaft itself ( ujoints ) for binding and slop. It may have enough slop to throw itself into a bind.

I ended up getting manuals for our sickle and rake and baler, but I also had to get them working somewhat before I had them so I understand your position there.

One of this board message boards faults is the first and sometimes only response if someone has a problem tends to be "do you have the manual?". Manuals are great to have, but some are very hard to obtain and the equipment needs to get working in the meantime.

Oh...the other response to a problem with a sickle mower is invariably the hay dr sticking in a plug for one of his disc mowers.

=)

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