[Mark Cowdrey]

Andre,

When I ordered guards from Macknair last year, the only ones he said he could get were the double “combine” guards, part # FO 218 DH. They are made in Germany. They have no ledger plates & are quite narrow. I have used the mower a little & they seem to work fine except that the throats are very tight. LRM in his book recommends 3/8″ between the knife & the top piece of the guards (lifted from old manufcturers’ copy). On these guards the distance is 1/8 or less in places. I have had some clogging trouble & am wondering if these are designed to be that tight, or whether it is possible (without breaking) and advisable to increase that distance.

Jay B. has spoken W a friend of his in So.VT who is running this type of guard exclusively (if I remember right). He feels that they are less likely to get bent up (changing the knife clearance at the inner & outer shoe ledger plates) from the constant bumping the endure in use. (Is the fellow I am talking aboiut out there??? Do I have it right??)

Anyone else used these?

(Have a few parens why don’t you.)

Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

What do you think of the Wintecs you are using?

Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

Rod,

That is an interesting looking rig. Any chance of some close up photos? What did the dolly wheel come off from?
Thanks,
Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

Thanks Neal

[Mark Cowdrey]

Neal,

Andre set me up. Thanks for offering to help. I am in Andover NH, by the way.

Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

Does anyone have any experience with, or even just seen, one of the Lancaster spreaders sold by Mascot Sharpening?
Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

Anyone might want to check this out. There were no horses when I went a few years ago. It is an annual event.
http://www.musterfieldfarm.com/calendar.htm#ice_day

[Mark Cowdrey]

Welcome,

What does “clearing” mean in this instance?

Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

I have found Carl’s poetic description of loose hay to be so for me & my anmals. I only make a little, maybe 75 bales worth, by hand. When I throw it down on the barn floor & start forking it out, all the necks are stretching for some “candy”. I have some small, un-even, stumpy pasture/field areas that I may or may not ever get a mower onto. When the grass gets ahead of the animals in mid-june, and I turn the horses onto the long rank stuff, most of it gets trampled. So I’ll make some hay before turning them on the re-growth. I am doing managed rotational grazing W/ temporary paddocks. I typically mow 3 or 4 50″ swaths in the morning before my desk job. Sometimes my wife turns it at noon, sometimes I sneak home, sometimes it sits till evening. It’s a small enough amount & handy to the barn so that if rain threatens & it’s almost made, I will bring it in (build a good load on the pick-up, I don’t currently have any kind of trailer/wagon) & spread it on the barn floor for a couple days to finish. Along with the benefit of making good, tasty hay from grass that would otherwise be trampled, it gets all the vegetation, so serves as a “pasture clipping”. The horses will eat almost all of it in hay form, including that from the manure “zone of repugnance” that they would not touch as standing grass. I use a european type curved snath from Marugg & various blades.

[Mark Cowdrey]

Carl, I guess I ‘m spelling with my mouth instead of my brain. Thanks for the feed back. A photo or drawing of that shoe & the angles you grind might be helpful at some point. If they do happen to cut themselves,do you treat the wound? Disinfectant?

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