Good points of a sickle mower- Cheap, Low power requirements (good when you're mowing with Horses) and years ago it was the best alternative, mostly because the alternative was a hand scythe. When I was a kid (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) we did 20-40 acres with a New Idea 30A sickle mower, it worked fine but it did take us a bit to learn how to maintain the darn thing. This included sharpening it, setting the rock guards and developing the skill to use the darn thing without plugging it up every 15 feet or at each corner. But then again we also baled the hay with a played out New Holland Super 66 pulled by a Farmall H and used an old Case 4 bar rake on steel to rake hay and one of our hay racks had wooden axles under it. We have learned a lot since then and this thing called progress has showed up, in the past a lot of people did a lot more with a lot less. Don't know that it was a choice it might of been all they had or could afford.
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Today's Featured Article - The Nuts and Bolts of Fasteners - Part 2 - by Curtis Von Fange. In our previous article we discussed capscrews, bolts, and nuts along with their relative hardness and thread sizes. In this segment we will finish up on our fasteners and then work with ways to keep them from loosening up in the field. Capscrews, bolts and nuts are not the only means of holding two parts together. When dealing with thinner metals like sheet tin, a long bolt and
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