OWNER’S MANUAL Sickle Bar Mowers • Safety • Assembly • Controls and Features • Operation • Maintenance • Parts List GARDEN WAY INCORPORATED Models 34061 – 34', 3-1/2 HP Recoil Start. Removing sickle bar mower. 15 Operating Operate. Replacement manuals can be obtained from your selling dealer. GASPARDO service parts. Oct 31, 2013 - I then started looking at parts availability in my area. Here is an example of what I found for replacement cutter blades at TSC Bla. Ferguson, Farmking – by Enorossi, PGF, Rossi, Kuhn, Gaspardo, Superior, Befco, Feraboli.

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A DCM sickle bar mower is the right choice when you need a lightweight machine for your small tractor, or when you are mowing ditch banks and other irregular terrain. Although they cannot mow at the higher speeds of drum mowers and disc mowers, they excel at cutting at angles well above and below level. They can even cut in the vertical position, for trimming hedges! Crate Length Width Height Dimensions 50″ 44″ 78″ Machine Weight 484 lbs Ship Weight 566 lbs Sickle bar mowers ship secured in a Gaylord corrugated container anchored to a wooden skid – minor assembly required. Shipping rates apply to the continental United States only. Please call 260-225-3429 to inquire about shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, or international. Flail Mower Delivery Type Sickle Bar Mowers Commercial or Freight Terminal $ 349.00 Farm/Residential with lift gate $ 429.00 Pickup from warehouse FREE.

The sickle bar mower was the first mechanical mower and was originally pulled by horses. The design is much the same today as it was then. The mower works with a reciprocating action, moving triangular blades back and forth between stationary guard fingers. Each back and forth action shears off any grass or vegetation that is between the stationary fingers. The action is the same as a set of barber’s clippers cutting hair.

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This type of mower can be used to cut hay as well as for other general mowing duties. The best sickle bar mowers currently being produced use a double action where the guard moves in the opposite direction from the blades. This doubles the effective blade speed, and also greatly reduces machine vibration, making it quieter, more comfortable to use, and longer lasting. An example of this type of mower is our DCM Italia 150. Though a sickle bar mower’s design is a bit antiquated, its advantages are:. Requires little horsepower. If you have a very low power tractor of 15 horsepower or less, this option will really be your only choice.

Though we do carry very small drum mowers, if you have an older compact utility tractor like a Kubota 5000 or 6000 series, a sickle bar mower will be your best bet. Lighter weight. If your tractor is very lightweight, or has very little front weight, a sickle bar is the lightest weight hay mower and therefore your best (and safest) option. Angled mowing capability.

If you are mowing ditch banks, sickle bars are the only hay mower style specifically designed to work well below (or above) horizontal. The DCM Italia mowers even allow you to work in the vertical position for trimming hedges or trail edges.

Less motion=less dust. While disc and drum mowers create a vortex of moving air across the blades, sickle bars have relatively little motion. As a result, less dirt will be cast into the air and your newly cut hay. That being said, the disadvantages of a sickle bar mower, include:.

Forward speed. A sickle bar mower’s forward speed is much slower than disc and drum mowers. They can mow a wide swath, but maximum speeds are only about half of other designs. They become easily clogged when working in very dense, lodged, or already cut material. Clogging is also more of a problem when blades begin to get dull. Blade repair. When blades become dull, sharpening or replacing them can be time consuming and expensive.

Repair expense. Damage due to hitting an unknown obstruction can be expensive to fix.

Disc mowers were invented as a logical progression from the sickle bar design. Instead of blades moving back and forth on the cutter bar though, they are mounted on several small discs that rotate at high speeds, mounted on top of the cutter bar.

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Generally there are 2 free-swinging blades bolted to each disc. The discs are driven either by a shaft or gears that are inside the cutter bar. Like with a sickle bar, the cutter bar essentially slides along the ground, which is what controls the cutting height. The advantages of a disc mower are:. No clogging. Disc mowers handle thick and lodged hay with ease. High cutting speeds.

If you have the horsepower, there is almost no limit to how fast you can drive through the field. Speeds of up to 15 mph or more are feasible, though very few tractors can do this safely. Ease of transition. Hydraulic lift allows you to go from working to transport and back again without leaving the tractor seat.

This is a time-saving feature when mowing several small fields. There are some situations, however, when you might want to steer clear of a disc mower. Their disadvantages are:.

Need for hydraulics. If your tractor does not have hydraulics, you won’t be able to lift the cutter bar vertically to get through gates and other narrow areas. Until recently this one factor kept many people from choosing a disc mower. However, now Galfre offers a 4-disc mower, the Model 165, with a cutting width of 5’-5”, that does not require hydraulics to operate.

Galfre is the only manufacturer in the industry that offers this option. You have the horsepower and the hydraulics, but your tractor is lightweight.

This can be a safety hazard because of the much heavier cutter bar compared to a sickle bar mower. When the mower is in the vertical transport position it can tip the whole tractor over unexpectedly. Expense of repair. If you frequently mow in places where you might hit something solid like a boulder, old fence post, etc.

Disc mowers, when damaged, can be extremely expensive to repair. Drum mowers, though widely used in Europe for 40 years or more, are just recently becoming a popular choice in the US. Drum mowers have a significantly different design from the other two types of mowers.

Instead of powering the cutting blades from the cutter bar, the “drums” of a drum mower are powered from a gearbox above. The standard drum mower has two counter-rotating drums. Each drum is essentially a cylinder of 10-14 inches in diameter and length of 15-24 inches, with a large disc attached to the bottom. Depending on the model, either 3 or 4 free-swinging blades are attached to each of these discs.

When in operation, the entire drum/disc/blade assembly rotates. This heavy rotating mass creates a great deal of momentum, which helps to power the mower through thick spots in the field. On the bottom of this assembly is a dish which is mounted on ball bearings. This dish does not rotate with the rest of the drum assembly, but rather slides along the ground and can rotate freely in either direction depending on the surface it slides over. As a drum mower moves through the field, the drums are rotating toward each other, which causes the cut crop to pass between the drums and be dropped in a windrow behind the mower.

This windrowing effect eventually must be spread back out with a tedder or rake in order for the hay to dry properly. This has been the major drawback of drum mowers up to this point. Galfre, however, has solved this problem with the patent-pending Black Hole conditioning system.

This system ejects the cut hay out the rear of the mower in a spread-out and fluffed manner, allowing the hay to dry where it sits. This potentially saves an additional trip through the field with a rake or tedder and can shorten drying time by up to a day. Amazingly, Galfre’s design accomplishes this feat with absolutely no additional moving parts. Drum mowers are designed to be very robust, simple machines.

They have only a fraction of the parts that either sickle bars or disc mowers require. They also can be run with modest horsepower.

Once the drums are up to speed, they do not draw a lot of power from the tractor to keep spinning. Drum mower advantages are:. No hydraulic requirement. You do not have to have hydraulics on your tractor. For transport, the drums swing to the rear of the tractor manually.

Durability. Drum mowers are easily the most rugged of the hay mower types. They rarely sustain damage even from striking an unmovable object. This makes them a great choice for contract cutting in unfamiliar fields or for mowing unruly pastures. High ground speeds.

A drum mower can be run at even higher speeds than a disc mower, and double the speed of a sickle bar. Low power consumption. This feature is important particularly with older utility tractors of modest horsepower. Drum mower disadvantages are:. Contour mowing. Because the drums are very heavy, it is not recommended to hang the mower out over a downward slope.

Drum mowers also do not pivot enough to effectively follow extreme contours like a sickle bar will. The drum mower’s heavy weight can be detrimental for tractors with light front ends. Drum mowers are very heavy in relation to other mower types of the same width. This can make maneuverability and transport difficult if there is not sufficient weight holding the front wheels of the tractor down. Windrowing. Since most drum mowers windrow the cut crop, it will not dry in the field without being spread out or double-raked. However, Galfre drum mowers are the exception to this rule.

Their Black Hole conditioning system fluffs and spreads the cut crop for faster drying time.

Ok folks in my quest to find a good used sickle mower I have run across numerous brands. I then started looking at parts availability in my area. For the NH 451 it’s a piece of cake. I found the same for the John Deere as wall as Case IH.

Frontier is also available through JD. However the off brands and Italian ones are throwing me. Here is an example of what I found for replacement cutter blades at TSC Blade marked A- fits Allis Chalmers, John Deere, Ford, Triumph Blade marked B fits Case, Field Queen Hay, Owatonna & Prairie Star Blade marked B- fits Case-IH, Massey Ferguson, New Holland, Gehl, Ford Ken at Sweet Farm Equipment was kind enough to share the following with me.

The IH 1300 is the same as the Ford 505 and the New Idea 522 and the Case/IH and 90% same as the IH 100. So as to the Italian brands – are they all made by the same company. Are some rebranded for US sales as the Enorossi Farmking brand.

Here is a list of brands I found locally and the internet for sale. Are some made by the same folks, and which do folks know you can’t or would have a rough time getting parts for. Frontier is made for JD, John Deere, Dearborn/Ford, Ford, Aktiv, Agco/New Idea, Case/IH, New Holland Massey Ferguson, Farmking – by Enorossi, PGF, Rossi, Kuhn, Gaspardo, Superior, Befco, Feraboli. Allis Chalmers.

Rowse – I think they use NH and IH parts. DCM Italia – Hidaro branded. Sorry for asking the tough questions, but I am trying to think ahead.

It may be worth it to pay a few more $$ for a brand I can get parts for, that a cheap offer that costs me in the end. Dodge caravan repair. I am currently looking at a Ford 501, a NH 451 and an IH1300 locally.

There my be a JD350 also available as well as a belt driven MF - unknown model. Thanks again. My goof, its a Ford 505 belt driven, not a 501. My old stubby fingures again. I looked at another NH 451 yesterday and discovered a big issue. It was actually hooked up to the guys tractor. He was not selling, just cutting a neighbors field.

The upper inverted U hoop will not clear my tractors lift arms as it attaches directly to the back of the tractor. My lift arms are spaced too close together. So I will need to get the adapter folks mention. I remember reading about this, but did not fully understand how the unit actually hooked up. Is the adapter easy to use?

Are there other models or brands I will have the same issue with, or better yet what will fit my compact tractor? It appears the NH 451 is the only one where the U tube actually attaches to the back of the tractor, rather than just the upper top link away from the lift arms. Is this correct? Thanks again - Trying to learn here. Yoda I went thru the same senerio as you, 'cause I'm alway getting stuck with a machine that the parts people just say 'I ain't never seen one of those before'.

I'm mowin' Hay, so, I finally went with a new Drum Mower. Okay, I know, It's made in Turkey. But, the dealer 'SAYS' parts won't be a problem. I didn't like the old keeps pluggin' up sicke bar machines because even setting in the scrape iron piles the dealers were tyin' to get $300-$400. I gave a little less that three thousand for the new machine but I can hook up a and go and blow. Once in while you have to get a little brave and get a piece of newer technology, at least new to the good 'ol USA.

While I agree a new tool woud be great, Im retired with a Kid still in colledge. Trying to get by on what I can afford, which is a used sickle mower and power rake. Next year, or maybe too, I may spring for a good used bailer.

Son will be out by then, and I can afford more - unless I need to buy the Boss Unit a new car.so maybe 4 years out the bailer.no waite.Ill need a new truck then I did contact Web Sickle Sirvice. They suggested I find a used CIH1300. They have lots of parts and it will fit my tractor without using an adapter. Thanks and please keep thoughts coming.