[AT] Hay making

[Mattias Kessén]

Sharp looking knives. Since I've got both a lot of knives and rivets with
my cutter I use rivets, that and the fact that people f my age don't know
how I use rivets.
Third cutting, you're blessed. We only got the firsť. Happily enough the
first was one of a kind we've got hay and silage for two years though we've
already been feeding the sheep in the pastures with silage for weeks... Yet
another year of drought.

Den lör 5 sep. 2020 21:02Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> skrev:

> Third cutting is coming in. Looking pretty decent. Right towards the end
> of the cutting the mower started leaving a small stripe of uncut grass
> behind it.   I was close enough to being done  I said screw it and kept
> cutting. Upon inspection a knife guard was missing. I’m not sure if you’ve
> ever taken one of these off but it’s impossible to take these off without
> also taking the knives off. However the knives were fine though one rivet
> was sheared. So my guess is it shattered somehow and then the bolts
> loosened.
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> Considering I sort of knew where it might be and knife guards  are 15 to
> 20 bucks locally I decided to waste 20 minutes with a metal detector and
> see if I can find it. I never could find it but I’m pretty sure I found
> what shattered it. I cut the handles clean off one of my wife’s pruning
> shears :-) Apparently it dropped out of her pocket or the Gator sometime
> recently. Cut those metal handles off cleanly. I can’t believe there’s no
> knife damage.
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> Anyways once again I had to replace some rivets and I used bolts. Needed a
> new high-rise clip to clear the bolts and put that on. Since he asked about
> using bolts and wondered about clip clearance, I’ve decided to include
> pictures for John Hall. This is a picture of the repair and then a picture
> of a normal section with original equipment on it.
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