Very interesting! Dang I wanna see if I could build one now wonder however if out moist and wet wonders would cause issues with it vs the dry winters y'all get

Fahon trends have a shelf life.
Remember when everyone was making and wearing kulatucks in the 70s?,same thing with CG style coats.

lol

I still hate AI video , check out the frogs with eyes at both ends.

So you refused to pay for services provided that were used? This is why things are so expensive today…folks refusing to pay and think they should get it for free instead of owning up to mistakes. It’s always blame someone else, lol.

If I read correctly 5 7/8 on land in NY would be illegal by 1/8 “.

This is my guards/bar setup.........the mower bar itself is about 1/2" or so thick x about 4 inches fore and aft.........and 9 feet long......so offset that much, it puts a lot of strain on the hitch end. Bolted to underside of the bar are the guards.........bolted flush to the bottom, and at front end is a small turned up lip / claw that prevents guards from moving side to side. These are held up by a special plow bolt style like a carriage bolt......no movement at all......fore and aft or side to side.




The problem I seem to be having is with that small lip / claw. The original old guards have a lip of maybe 1/8". Guards ordered from JD using same part number have a different, taller lip. Now maybe 3/16" or more..........and that seems to be where the problem lies.



The sickle bar......the bar stock to which the sections are riveted to.....slide along just above that lip....at least with old guard. Very close tolerance, but not touching. With new replacement guards, it slides on that lip........so does not drop down into the slot to allow sections to register on and touch the ledgers on the guards. These have to touch so they shear like scissors.......and these were not.

Green guard on right is my 5th and final option for my Obi-Wan replacement guard. My last and only hope.



If that works, then on to replacing all the hold downs, pull and sharpen sickle, etc. Plus there are 3 or 4 major adjustments to get this set right to cut. There is a lot to know to get these tuned and running right. There is a reason why the modern era replacement is a disc bower...........but takes a big tractor and big HP to run one of those.

Come to think of it, if OP has a big enough tractor, a disc mower might work for him.

Personally I’d love to park in a parking lot shaded by panels when it’s 100 degrees out.

I’ll never understand the whole “take a nice ag field and cover it in panels out in the middle of nowhere” mentality. At first I thought the deer and other critters would love having areas with shade or protected from snow exposing some vegetation, maybe even a little warmth underneath in the winter like the Alaska pipeline does. Ha nope they nuke all the vegetation with ground sterilants and put up a 6 foot fence around them.

With all the trillions we’ve wasted on learing centers, wars and other pork barrel spending they could have replaced every roof in the US with panels and created an industry for installers and panel maintenance.

My Grandfather was a German shoemaker, specialized in orthopedic shoes, handmade 1 pair at a time...he later opened a shoe repair findings business servicing local shoemakers, there was still quite a few in the 60's..
I can only think of 1 shoemaker that might still be in business, maybe, the old timers are all gone, which is a shame but there's no money or future in it , people just buy new cheap shoes anymore..If you still have a good shoemaker count your blessings....

5 I went through the entire keyboard guessing to get the last letter. New word for me also.

Do a search for "bypassing chest freezer thermostat".
You'll find sveral of them, just skip the timer installation, you want it to run continuosly.

Just beating around the bush excuses why he hadnt paid me. I didnt go to the bank,I cant get apple pay to work, My wife is over the financing of the farm ill have to see what she wants to do stuff like that!