2004 - Volume #28, Issue #4, Page #02
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Sicklebar Mower Adapted To ATV
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Depee describes himself as an "auction sale' junky and says he had been looking for just the right mower for his ATV. He didn't want a pull-type mower deck because the ATV would push down the grass before cutting. Finally one day he spotted a 4-ft. sicklebar designed to mount behind a larger garden tractor equipped with a pto. He bought the sicklebar and took it home, where he removed the pto hardware so he could drive it with an engine.
A few months earlier, he had bought an ATV 4-ft. snowblower attachment powered by a 10 hp gas engine. He used the snowblower's engine and mounting system to mount the sicklebar on front of the ATV.
"It does a nice job cutting and, because it's in front of me, I can see rocks and stumps and swerve to miss them," says Depee. "The entire unit weighs about 75 lbs., which my ATV handles well. I use a winch on front to lift it up. I've used it to cut two miles of ditches along our road. One change I made was to replace the 10 hp engine with a 5 hp one, because that's all it needs. I spent a total of about $100 which I think was well spent."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dale D. Depee, 209 Buffalo Trail, Somers, Mont. 59932 (ph 406 857-2092; email: dale.depee@bnsf.com).
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