another thing , see the grass laying on your knife head in your picture?that one thing will break a pitman more often than any other.its there because you have a piece broken or missing.just as there is a swathboard on out board end of cutter bar,theres one on inboard end.yours is broken off.its a rod that angles from front of inboard shoe and pushes grass or whatever your cutting away from knife head when its cut.look at bottom picture at front of shoe, you can see the stub of it where it has broken,bolted to inside of skid.make a rod the same diameter to bolt in there that angles over towards center of cutter bar long enough to make grass cuttings fall off knife head when cut,and you will stop a lot of your mowing problems.thats a very common problem with all mowers and it causes lots of problems.if you can get someone to take a picture of a good one it helps to understand.make two and keep one on hand.DONT!!!! take folks advice and make a pitman out of metal,please,if you cant fix it dont deliberatly destroy it which you can do if you put in a metal pitman.sell it to someone else who will fix it and buy a brushhog.
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