Posted by showcrop on June 22, 2019 at 13:06:01 from (75.68.37.174):
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I downsized from 50 to 15 acres of hay ground a few years ago. I sold my Ford 8240 and my New Holland 411 mower. Haying is in my blood so I kept a few small fields, just to enjoy without the pressure. A young fellow who grew up across the street bought my mower and he does my mowing for me in exchange for some things that I do for him. The weather this spring has been hard as it has been in many areas, and we just got our second good stretch starting this morning. Yesterday, my young friend told me that he wouldn't be able to mow so try another friend but he couldn't either. This is no big deal because I really don't worry about it that much any more. Well this AM my young friend texted me and suggested that I take his tractor, a Ford 7600, and my old 411 and mow it myself, so I took him up on it. So I am merrily mowing away, except for getting way too many holidays because of how far away from the swath his tractor tracks. Suddenly the mower is making a bad noise, and the tractor stops and stalls. I look back and the mower header outer end is way down and the hitch is on the ground. The tractor's drawbar broke. So I restart the tractor to cool the turbo and check things out. The mower appears to be OK, though it is hard to tell for sure because the header is still dug in a little. The drawbar was rusted on about 1/5 of the surface at the point where it broke. I called my friend and left him a voicemail. He was at a farm 20 miles away spreading fertilizer on corn. I shut the tractor off and went to my place and loaded my truck with jacks, cribbing, wrenches, and other tools and an extra drawbar that I bought off ebay a few years ago just because I couldn't believe how cheap it was going. It took me about an hour and a half to get the front of the mower jacked up, drawbar swapped over, and mower hooked back up to the tractor. When I got the mower up off the ground I could see that it was a catastrophic failure. Most of the discs were oriented parallel with each other which means that most of the gears in the header are stripped, which means that the mower is pretty much a total loss. I left my friend a voice mail to call me. I decided that I would help him with purchase of a replacement mower, or repair of the 411 whichever he wants to do. After awhile he called back and I told him what had happened and he was all apologetic about how it would have happened to him if I hadn't been running it, and he is really sorry that I didn't finish mowing. He is a gem and I will help him to get back in the field as soon as possible.
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