Boat Winch Helps Lift Mower's Sicklebar

Boat Winch Helps Lift Mower's Sicklebar MOWERS Mowers (31H) 32-5-35 In his eighties, Charley Marley of Nokomis, Ill., still likes to keep active, and one of the things he likes to do is keep things trim with his sicklebar mower. However, manually folding the heavy 9-ft. long sicklebar up for transport was always a struggle. So he came up with an easier way to raise and lower the sicklebar, using a boat winch. He bolted a 2-ft. long steel bar vertically to the top part of the mower frame and mounted the boat winch on it. To transport the mower, he simply connects the winch cable to the middle part of the sicklebar and cranks the winch. "It makes lifting the sicklebar a much easier job," says Marley. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Charley Marley, 27147 Oconee Ave., Nokomis, Ill. 62075 (ph 217 563-2007).

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