Steel Plates Extend Disc Mower Life

Steel Plates Extend Disc Mower Life HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Mowers 38 Donna Dottie Walker knows how to make a mower last When she and her husband bought their disc mower 15 years ago it was already 8 years old She says it still looks like new thanks to the wear plates she added to the bar “The wear plates saved the bar preventing it from wearing down ” she says “The mower is always going over limbs and dirt clods hidden in the hay ground ” Walker welded pieces of scrap steel 5 to 6 in square by 1/2 in thick to the bottom of the disc mower’s original wear or skid plates She didn’t worry about dressing the squares up “There’s no need to bevel the steel ” she says “The leading edge wears down to a bevel on its own in a couple of years ” She added the plates to protect the bolt heads that hold the disc blade in place “Without them the dirt will wear the heads off ” she says Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Donna Walker 3550 Republican Grove Rd Atwood Tenn 38220 ph 731 669-6242

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