Disaster turned into an asset

[M5farms]

That should work, the curtain on my vicon doesn't give me any issues, it's heavy and thick , fwiw if you need s new curtain build your own out of tpo used for roofing it is easy to weld and 60 Mills thick. If you go that route let me know I have a welder I can loan you and I have connections in Texas where you could get tpo. I slung 2 blades and holders off of a disc this summer one tore out the back and other went thru top . didn't even know it till I saw some streaks being left in field

 

[Texasmark]

That should work, the curtain on my vicon doesn't give me any issues, it's heavy and thick , fwiw if you need s new curtain build your own out of tpo used for roofing it is easy to weld and 60 Mills thick. If you go that route let me know I have a welder I can loan you and I have connections in Texas where you could get tpo. I slung 2 blades and holders off of a disc this summer one tore out the back and other went thru top . didn't even know it till I saw some streaks being left in field

Thanks for the offering. Very kind of you. Will see how my current plan works......course it'll be next spring as I "think" I put the cutter up for the last time this year.

 

[Mace Canute]

Agri something, made in Turkey. Rocks are small (as rocks go) 1 to 3" diameter. Tillage brings them to the top and rain exposes them. The blades on the drum are 1-2" off the ground. The outer drum is the problem as it is turning in toward the tractor. No telling how many you hit and things aren't perfect. But when they are whacko.

It has a curtain like others and I even put a ｼ" square hardware cloth in front of the skirt since the wind blows the skirt back making it useless and the mod is open and stays vertical....till product forces it back. The other problem was I was traveling at a high rate of speed and there was minimum vegetation, nothing to block it.

I'm in the middle of the fix as I type. I am putting a 15" extension on the front of the mower with a frame strong enough to resist pushing from tall crops and on the door, I'm making a sheet steel cover that I will attach with the suction cups, just in case the steel misses one. Lot cheaper than my acrylic resin idea.....I have all the parts and plenty of time to make the mod.

Why so low?

 

[Texasmark]

Why so low?

The drum has an upper and lower "dish". The lower dish is independent of the drive mechanism and rides over the ground. Height is about 1". The upper dish contains the blades and there is about a 1" spacing between the dishes. Just the way it's designed.

When I bought it I wanted more stubble height for sudan-sorghum crops and bought the 1" extension to raise it but I was mowing a rough field at high speed recently, due to lack of crop matter, and sheared the bolts holding one of the lower dishes onto the machine. In repairing I decided to take the shims out as I have too much stubble with soft stemmed crops like Bermuda. Right now I don't know if I want to keep it like it is (mows great), or go back with the spacer....will definitely hurt my SS crop second cutting due to slow regrowth with a shorter stubble stalk but I need the cutting improvement on the Bermuda.

 

[Mace Canute]

The drum has an upper and lower "dish". The lower dish is independent of the drive mechanism and rides over the ground. Height is about 1". The upper dish contains the blades and there is about a 1" spacing between the dishes. Just the way it's designed.

When I bought it I wanted more stubble height for sudan-sorghum crops and bought the 1" extension to raise it but I was mowing a rough field at high speed recently, due to lack of crop matter, and sheared the bolts holding one of the lower dishes onto the machine. In repairing I decided to take the shims out as I have too much stubble with soft stemmed crops like Bermuda. Right now I don't know if I want to keep it like it is (mows great), or go back with the spacer....will definitely hurt my SS crop second cutting due to slow regrowth with a shorter stubble stalk but I need the cutting improvement on the Bermuda.

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Creamer]

In some dryer parts of the country those disc and drum mowers are called firestarters and do not sell well. I had never thought about the operator safety issue with them.

 

[Texasmark]

Yesterday I got my new right rear window glass from a nearby (50 miles) Branson dealer. Really nice, helpful, guys. Cost was $252 and freight was $42, 9 day ship time; not bad. Over a hundred bucks cheaper than I estimated. Done deal.

I made and tested a shield, sheet steel-suction cup mounted, for the lower part of the door (door handle down), but have yet to install the shield on the mower. I used some scrap parts I had lying around. For the door I used the steel front of an old dishwasher I cut to fit and painted up to match the tractor real nice and for the mower I modified an old railing I made for a Chevy bed trailer, years ago, and a piece of old corrugated tin. I decided that the acrylic needed to be ｼ" so that when a rock hit it it wouldn't bend into the glass and break it anyway and for that it needed to come in a 4x8 sheet.....around 250 bucks....no deal. Time to "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.".....Clint Eastwood, USMC (motto?), Granada Island invasion movie.

I figured it'd be better to put the main shield on the implement so that it's a permanent part of it and no additional work when hooking it up.

Will post pics when I get the mower shield installed.....will be a few days.

I'm posting this because I know full well there are a lots of 3 pt. drum and disc mowers out there in use and anybody using one has the possibility of crashing your glass if cabbed or crashing YOU without. I guarantee you that the 3" rock that crashed my glass would have hit me right in the right temple and knocked me out or worse! As it was small pieces of safety glass hit me in the cheek and the ear muffs.

 

[Teachu2]

Time to "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.".....Clint Eastwood, USMC (motto?), Granada Island invasion movie.

Heartbreak Ridge

 

[Texasmark]

Heartbreak Ridge

That's it. Really enjoyed. I have a neighbor whose daughter is in med school down there. Couldn't help but think about the movie. She says everything is fine, great school.

 

[BKBoiss]

LexGuard is a laminated PC, which can even be made bulletproof.

I really wish I had a picture because of the whole "pictures or it didn't happen deal", but a lot of forestry machinery have this for windows and coming back after a long weekend we found a Bullet lodged in the front window of a processor right about eye level.