[AT] Help--sickle grinders

[John Wilkens]

Guess I didn't know what I was getting into!!  I'll get 'er figured out 
with all this good input though.  Right now I'm busy putting a new roof on 
the shop.     John



At 05:51 AM 09/03/2005, you wrote:
>John,
>I don't post very often but this subject did bring back memories, and
>not the best ones either.  My dad must not have been the strong farmer
>that was mentioned in another post because I had to be on the long end
>of the sickle.  Holding the long end was not the problem, but having the
>same movement as Dad did was a problem, I can still hear Dad and his
>choice words.  Dad's was like another one that has been mentioned, it
>would do a few sections before you had to move the sickle and re clamp
>it.  You are correct, a new stone would sharpen on side of two mating
>sections at the same time, but with movement of the sickle.
>
>I don't ever plan to own a sickle mower, if that tells you the memories
>I have.  The new serrated sections are a vast improvement.
>Have fun.
>Ernie
>
>Take care,
>Ernie
>
>
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>Subject: [AT] Help--sickle grinders
>
>Anybody have instructions on how to set up a motorized (belt driven)
>sickle
>bar sharpener?  I bought a nice little used machine that I could use
>some
>help setting up...including the shape of the stone.  When the stone
>comes
>down on the sickle section does it sharpen the whole length of the
>section
>or do you move the stone back and forth along the edge somehow?     John
>W.
>
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