Clearing Trails With the Cheapest Skid Steer Sickle Bar Mower I Could Find
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2023
- I bought this cheap sickle bar mower to cut off limbs and branches that hang over our trails. I set up the mower and trimmed about 2 miles of trails. It works, but you definitely get what you pay for. I've already broken 5 teeth and I'm hoping they were just cheap teeth that came with the mower.
If you've got experience with sickle bar mowers, please let me know which brand of teeth I should buy as replacements!
The mower is Wolverine and I bought it new from Ebay.
Replace the broken sickle sections with good serrated ones. Remove the broken ones and check others for cracking replace any cracked ones too. Take a un broken one to the farm store to match up for new ones, be sure EVERYTHING matches perfectly you look for over serrated ones and use the special screws instead of rivets unless you invest in the sickle rivet tool. Also when cutting grass and weeds go 3/4 throttle and possibly full ground speed, you weren't going fast enough ground speed for it to clear the cutting bar and broken section didn't help. As for the broken modified guard, remove a good one and take it with so you can match it for new ones, buy a couple, you may be lucky enough to have a store that would have a single to replace that one. If not you can weld a piece of flat steel to replace the broken top then shift them like you said.
Thanks for the video! Keep seeing these on auctions and been contemplating getting one….It looks like it just doesn’t have enough sickle strokes per minute to mow effectively
Bought one of these from Ritchie Bros Auctions. Pretty much everything about it is terrible, but they can be made better with a few modifications:
1. As mentioned, the guards and teeth are poor quality, best to knock them all off and replace them with a North American brand held on with bolts instead of rivets; you'll need taller knife hold downs if you go this route to clear the nuts.
2. Add a small ball valve to the ram hydraulic line and adjust it so the ram moves sloooowly and smoothly. Take the handle off the valve and wrap it up so it stays set.
3. Only run the motor counterclockwise when looking from above to ensure the push stroke is mostly more inline with the knife, otherwise you'll bend the knife head if it gets into tough cutting. See 4b below.
4a. The dog bone/linkage is too short to allow full stroke both ways (the knife section should go about 1/8" past the guard at min/max stroke) so needs to be lengthened 3/4".
4b. Or better yet, build a new longer dog bone that allows the use of self aligning bearings (SKF 2203 E-2RS1TN9) that will allow some movement, otherwise you'll just break an inner race and/or wreck a bearing every time the knife head/bar flexes.
Should probably make a video on how to fix these up to make them better. Not necessarily good, but better.
Pretty cool tool for the price. Are driveway is almost a quarter mile long, this might be just what i need to trim it up
I have the same one. I broke the blades like you did, and the teeth. I also keep breaking the bearings on the linkage. They are very much undersized for the job. This design can not handle cutting 1 or 2 inch sticks on hedges for long. Might be better used for just grass. I also broke a weld on the rotation point.
Oh man, that sucks. Did you replace any teeth? Can you point me to the right size?
@@badcanyon I used the A size from fleet farm. its a bit thicker also.
I found little thicker blades at Rural King farm store size A.
Glad I found your video before buying one on auction......thank you for sharing
It doesn’t sound like your RPM is anywhere near high enough
Need a restriction port for the boom
Rebuild your cycle bar with heavier serrated sections and guards then crank your rpm’s up. You don’t mow your lawn at half speed?😊
That's a good point. I'll try the grass again at full rpms!
When you mow horizontal does the base need to slide on ground or can it be completely air born? Wondered how it would work to mow ditch shoulder of gravel road.
It can be horizontal and in the air. Most of what I mowed horizontal ends in a ditch, so there was nothing for the end to slide on.
New season, so had to replace all the broken teeth. The process wasn't too bad. You can watch here: ruclips.net/video/3eQ_z7Mc03g/видео.html
Why not use the electric plug on the skid steer hookup
This is definitely the right approach. I suppose you can buy general purpose plugs somewhere to make your own connectors.
When you r mowing u should be past everything falling in grass, never mowed trees or those heavy weeds so I guess fast enough so nothing falls forward
Most mower part across all makes r enter changeable, loots light to me, get heavier sickle sections as that is not normal use of a mower
Careful making a habit of sticking your fingers in it, best to use a pencil or stick.
That's good advice. Will definitely remember that from now on.
Water is better for cleaning sickle bar
Keep your fingers out of those blades
Not worth 500