Posted by PJH on April 29, 2019 at 07:07:11 from (50.40.210.37):
In Reply to: Sickle Mower Again posted by Danny Prosser on April 29, 2019 at 05:32:36:
It's not unusual to bend a sickle section downward. That will cause a few neighboring sections to ride high and cause the gaps like you're seeing. So - if you pull the knife out of the unit, you should be able to eyeball longways down the tips of the sections and see nearly perfect alignment. If any are not aligned, they will cause their neighbors to cut poorly.
Also - you can sharpen the sides of the guards that do not have replaceable ledger plates. There should be a nice crisp corner with a little relief on the guard edges. If the cutting edges of the guards are rounded, they need either sharpened or replaced. Eventually you'll sharpen them down to where they will need replaced.
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