I've always admired how beautifully grass is laid down by a sickle bar. Additionally, if the chopped grass is thick enough, it can form a mat that inhibits the growth of both weeds and grass. I used to spend a lot of summers using a sicklebar to cut the county road right-of-way. Later, we "upgraded" (actually, downgraded) to rotary mowers and finally to flail mowers. But nothing operates as well as a sickle bar!

Just purchased the Sears version of this; if it doesn't fit one of my Bolens or Simplicities, I'll simply get a Sears SS or ST, which is what it was designed for. I was raised in a city with a 10' x 15' yard. After leaving for the army and college, I returned home and purchased a home close to where I used to go hunting. Now, at the age of forty, I spend my days outside, playing with snowblowers, 3 point hitch equipment, and garden tractors. My favorite.

so mitigating to watch! I adored my experience with my drafters....I miss it all....some say the time it takes to unharness and brush them down is Involved one for many sections of land back in the fifties. It was on our B first and afterward on our 50. One thing generally terrified me. There is a clasp that keeps the sickle from sliding out of the bar when it was collapsed. The bolt holding the clasp in would once in a while aftermath making it very risky to overlap. I generally collapsed my fingers into my palm while collapsing in the event that clasp was absent.
    My other memory gets me right up to the present day north of 70 years after the fact - the cutter interfaces with the work vehicle on a Quik hitch component that is generally idiot proof and simple. At the point when unfastened the cutter lays on several crease up stands. This specific day it had come down so the trimmer sunk down about an inch or so on one side. I lifted it into position manually. Obviously there wasn't space to lift with my legs so I lifted with my back. Each once in for a little while my lower back torment helps me to remember my idiocy that day.

8My father bought a 15-acre farm when I was 8 years old, and I was shown how to harness a team of two Belgans and operate a one-board plow by him. Because I was too small to reach over the horses' backs, it took me more than an hour merely to harness them. A day's work consisted of plowing two acres per day and feeding all the other cattle.