How To Use Your Sickle Bar Mower (For Beginners)

Thanks I learns a lot this will be my first time useing a sikel bar mower hopefully this year

Great vid. Have just found one of these mowers and have no experience with them. Just heard that they make cleaner hay than the disc mowers as they dont whirl dirt up as much or at all.

This is a good video brother great quality

If you go about twice that fast the grass will fall to the back better. PS: make sure you file your teeth so they’re super sharp. Dull teeth push the grass over more.

Thanks for the video. I just bought a Ford 501 7' sickle mower. It seems to be in pretty good shape. However I can't move freely with my hands it seems to be frozen or binding somewhere. Any ideas what I should look for?

Hi and thank you for the video. I just purchased my first tractor. I've never operated one before. I have a drainage ditch that is about 300 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4-5 feet deep. In a different area, I have a 45 degree bank that is about 6 feet tall. I want to keep the grass, weeds, and saplings cut down. I have a brush hog but it can't get at the areas. I'm thinking about getting a sickle mower to do these jobs. A new sickle mower can cost over $6,000. That is about 3 grand more than I can afford. I see some old sickle mowers online for around $1,500-$2,000. Since I know nothing about them, should I stay away from the used mowers? Do you have any recommendations?

Could I clip pasture at 8” or 9” high or would the end of the sickle bar bend down to ground?

Rev speed or wheel speed on PTO?

Missing a lot of grass!