1st Cutting - 2008

Cutting with the new sickle bar.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Farm
• hay
• cutting
• sickle
• bar
• John
• Deere
• Frontier

[basborsboom]

we have a mowerconditioner sickler kind but we like to get rid of that and maybe buy a sickel like you how mutch do they cost and how many days do you let it dry before you bale

[chetlenox]

The sickle bar works well, and generates nice clean hay. The downsides are slower ground speed and a little less reliable than a disk cutter. I believe we paid about $4k for ours...

[nicknakai]

I have a great sickle bar, the only thing is my rake. i have a 4 wheel rake, it's hard to dry at times. what do you have to rake grass? and does it work well. ? thanks.

[chetlenox]

I use a New Holland Rollabar rake. Works well, but it's much narrower than the newer wheel-style rakes that most folks use these days, so it takes a while to rake my pasture. Rakes great though.

[eking928]

i have never seen a sickle mower work that good! disc mower is the only way to go for me. about how fast do you run when mowing?

[chetlenox]

Oh, we aren't going that fast, probably ~4-5 mph depending on the grass conditions. It seems to work pretty well though.

[Mafioso19c06]

jebac wisle!!!

[CTD03]

great vids please keep them coming i am looking for about the same size farm and love watching your vids

[redpwr806]

She's flat gittin with it !!!

[brian93ist]

i lookedat a 9ft sickle mower the other day it was 4000 dollars new and was made identical to this the 3pt hookup was a little diffrent

[brian93ist]

@chetlenox do you always cut hay like this? you should cut hay in a circle it would be much faster

[12jamesthomas]

i use a hn discbine and a  kuhn tedder and a kuhn rake and hn baler square and round