Sickle Bar Brush Hog or Sickle Bar

[Fredex]

If someone cut off a finger, that's because the USER wasn't careful.

Too right, Farm! I still remember the first time my father sent me out to mow hay, which was 1-2 years later than he let me plow & disc. First the brief lecture, then he raised & lowered the bar from upright to horizontal while I watched the relative motion between sickle sections & ledger plates, then showed where to safely hold the bar, finally made me prove I understood by doing.

I still have all 10 & haven't mutilated any pets.

 

[JoeinTX]

Yeah, I've never personally met anyone who's lost a finger or anything else to a sickle-bar mower. It's pretty obvious to the casual observer that one should not get your fingers or otherwise near the cyclical action of the cutter-bar.

I don't want to appear anti-sickle mower.......not at all. They have a use and for it little else compares. Disc/drum mowers are great but tend to tear up a crop more. Rotary mowers, even though I see it done, are little good for any type of crop laying.......tears the **** out of things.

I have one and it can be good for some things but not for all.

 

[3RRL]

I recently acquired a sickle bar mower that was used previously for topping and trimming work in a lemon orchard. I also have a 6' rotary cutter. My plan is to use the sickle bar for mowing the banks of my future pond, the edges of the gullies and also near/ under the fence line. All the rest will be done with the RC.