RE: (ET) Ebay Items; sickle bar mower.

["Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>]

I have one.

It was made by Haban Manufacturing (same company that made the 
snow-thrower).

It has a 4' wide cut to the right rear of the tractor., and is powered by 
an oversized deck motor; the 
same dia as the larger deck motor (even the same bearings and brushes), 
but twice the length.  It can 
cut a sapling of about 3/4" dia, and since the grass 'folds over', you can 
cut grass of any height... 
several feet at least.  They are REAL NICE for cutting over a creek or 
ditch.  It has a different hitch 
mount (neither normal or the toolbar for the tiller or the sleeve hitch) 
that is very LOW.  you can easily 
get on top of a small tree trunk and get stuck.  Also, the cutter can cut 
from vertical (hedge sides can 
be cut) to horizontal, but NOT below horizontal, so you can't cut the side 
of a ditch at an angle.  You 
can leave the front deck on the tractor at the same time as the sickle-bar 
mower.

I can't find a picture of it here at work, but I have some if you really 
need to see it.  I still haven't 
remembered to bring my scanned gauge pictures...  so it might be a while.

Larry Elie


-----Original Message-----
From: Solid Technologies [mailto:solidtech qwest net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 10:51 PM
To: 'Chris Zach'; 'elec trak yahoo group'
Subject: RE: (ET) Ebay Items


  I had no idea that GE ever offered a sickle mower for the ET.  Their
primary use is on a farm to cut hay for harvesting - the same idea is
typically used on the front of a combine to harvest various grains.  It is
effectively a set of blades on a bar that go back and forth through a set 
of
guides that serve as the other part of a scissors - whatever is between the
blade and the guide will be cut as the blade passes through it as it is
stopped against the guide.  For hay, everything above the cut simply falls
over the rest of the bar undamaged, dries from the sun, and is then bailed.
With a sickle bar, you could also cut one swipe of a bank that was a tad to
steep to drive the ET directly on as the cutting bar would start from the
side of the tractor and project out the length of the bar and does not have
to be exactly parallel with the tractor's axle.

  It would be great to get a full set of photos for the ET web site - and
any other unique attachments...

--joe

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of Chris Zach
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:07 PM
To: elec trak yahoo group
Subject: Re: (ET) Ebay Items


So what is a sickle mower?

Chris