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Rather than brush hogging my field this year, I had a guy hay it.
It's not big, but it was big enough for him to hay it with a 4430.
He got a first cutting that yielded 5 round bales. He's yet to get a
second cutting due to the dry summer we've been having. He is going
to cut it one last time however, now that we've gotten some rain.
Normally my field would be to small, but he cuts some larger fields
about 1/8 of a mile away. It's nice not to have to brush hog it, and
the hay goes to good use, he raises beef cattle. <br>
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Mike M<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/5/2020 4:32 PM, Mattias Kessén
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<div dir="auto">Three cuttings were most common here too but not
since2017... 2018 is the drought year but even then we got two
(not great) cuttings. We could have gotten two this ear but why?
Better let the sheep eat it right away.</div>
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22:10Spencer Yost <<a href="mailto:spencer@rdfarms.com"
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<div dir="auto">One of the few advantages of living in the
hot, humid, rainy south is that three cuttings - tho not
guaranteed - are common enough. Two cuttings always.
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<div>Those course tooth sections I believe are Herschel
Tigershark:</div>
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<div>They were on there when I bought the machine and are
popular around here as they are very hard to damage and
are very sharp. I have a stash of finely serrated knives
so whenever I replace one I use those.</div>
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<div>As for rivets versus bolts: Sometimes I rivet a new
section and sometimes I use bolts. Depends on the
circumstance. Like this circumstance I would have used
rivets so I would not have to replace a stock knife clip.
But the knife guard had gone missing. So while I was at
the store buying the knife guard i went ahead and spent a
few extra bucks on a high-rise clip and I used bolts.</div>
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<div>My rivet setter/punch is getting worn out in the
threads from overuse. I’m sure it will last the rest of my
lifetime but will probably be nearly useless for whoever
buys it from the estate sale my kids have when I am gone
:-)</div>
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<div dir="auto">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.
<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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2020 21:02Spencer Yost <<a
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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