Upside Down Cutterbar

Upside Down Cutterbar HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Mowers (38) 6-4-7 You've never seen anything like this new "upside down" cutterbar that has every other sickle knife turned toward the ground to lessen wear and tear of the cutting operation. Developed by a West German manufacturer, the new cutterbar, which also features a new sickle guard design, has been tested for two years on John Deere, International Harvester, Massey Ferguson and other combines. The cutterbar will also adapt to swathers, forage choppers, and any other field machine that uses a sickle-type mower. "This design practically eliminates plugged blades and bent sickle sections. It stops the tearing of stalks and there's less breakage of sections and guards," says company owner H. Schumacher. "The key feature of the system is that, while one blade is cutting in an upward fashion against a finger, the adjacent blade is cutting downward against another finger. This evens out wear along the entire cutterbar, requiring less energy and paying for itself by preventing breakdowns and maintenance problems. It runs quieter with less power demand on both the bar and drive unit," says Schumacher. Cost of the new mowing kit is right at $30 per foot of cutting width. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gebr. Schumacher Gmbh, 5231 Eichelhardt (Westerwald), West Germany (ph 02681/3681).

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