sickle bar mower

[beenthere]

:welcome:
Can you post a pic of your purchase?

 

[Mace Canute]

Beware of the blade. Make sure an experienced person shows you how to lift the bar and blade properly. If you have a finger in the wrong place as you lift, the blade will cut it off instantly. This is with the tractor off and the PTO not running. The blade will slide down as you lift the bar up to it's travel position. If you finger is between the rock guard tine and the triangle blades, it will be history in less than 2 seconds.

X 2! I don't think this can be emphasized enough, especially for the first time owner who is probably not aware that the blade often wants to slide downwards as it's raised to transport position.

 

[tractorman14]

I use an old new idea pull type and it works good

 

[sweettractors]

We have 4 Massey Ferguson #41 mowers with 7 ft cutter bars and 4 International #1300 mowers (2 7 ft and 2 9 ft) and 1 New Holland 451 with 7 ft cutterbar and 1 John Deere #350 with 7 ft cutter bar and catagory 2 hitch pins All these mowers are 3 point hitch and all are beltdriven. Prices run $995 to $1750 and all have beeen run the shop and are in good working order. Pitman mowers available at lower cost. Ken Sweet

 

[Malphurs]

I recently bought an Allis Chalmers 80R Sickle Bar Mower I think the 80 refers to the length of the blade. The (R) is for rear hook up, the (T) is for trail and the (SI) is for side. I just ordered a parts manual on E-Bay. I am having trouble finding parts. There are a couple of arms that come from the gearbox to the blade and one of my bearings blew out and the grease cap blew off and I can,t find it, so before making a purchase on old equiptment make sure you can get parts. If anyone can recommend someone for parts please let me know.

 

[flyerdan]

I've got a question about sickle bar mowers: would one be suitable to use as a giant hedge trimmer and branch trimmer? If so, I'd like to scrounge one up and make an adapter plate for the bobcat and drive it with a hydraulic motor. It would operate at 0 and 90 degree position, and only used once or twice a year so if I'd have to go real slow with it that would be ok.

 

[DJ54]

Have you tried an AGCO dealer for your mower parts..?? I went to AGCOpartsbooks AGCO Parts Books and they had the mower listed, and many parts superseded by newer part numbers. So I'm guessing they still may carry at least the bearing.

Enter as a guest, and type your model number in, and select Agco Allis. Exploded views by component section are listed. Part numbers are listed too.

Could the arms be fabricated..??

As far as one being adapted to a Bobcat to trim hedges... It could be possible. They make, or did make a sideboom highway mower to cut tree limbs that was a sickle bar type. The sections were larger, and heavier, and would probably cut 3" limbs or so. They also ran at a lot slower than a normal sickle bar mower, and you just eased into the limbs you're cutting.

 

[rdbigfarmboy]

I've got a question about sickle bar mowers: would one be suitable to use as a giant hedge trimmer and branch trimmer? If so, I'd like to scrounge one up and make an adapter plate for the bobcat and drive it with a hydraulic motor. It would operate at 0 and 90 degree position, and only used once or twice a year so if I'd have to go real slow with it that would be ok.

Just get a small bushhog and do the same, no sickle bar is great on limbs. 4 ft used bushhogs are $300 or so

 

[masalser]

Flyerdan, a company called skidsteer solutions makes a sickle mower adapted to be used on a bobcat style machine. We have one that we use to cut the sides of horse riding trails. We are in western washington where we have lots of blackberry and salmon berry that tends to encroach on trails from the sides. The mower works great, is powered with a hydraulic motor, and can be operated from -15 degrees to all the way vertical. The only trouble that we have had with it was hooking an alder tree and bending the sickle bar. It was a pain to fix and required a good metal fabricator to straighten it. The attachment was pricey but it works really well for our application

 

[flyerdan]

I've seen that one, it's where I got the idea. I figured I could scrounge and build one for several thousand less; if it needed tweaking or fixing after each use it wouldn't be a big issue as it would only be used once or twice a year.