Re: Attachment for harvesting grain (wheat)?
What do you mean? Are you talking about the sickle mower?
What do you mean? Are you talking about the sickle mower?
The guy I bought mine from said he cut saplings up to an inch and a half with it.He would pull up to it and gradually pull into it and it would shake the sapling and it would fall.No damage at all to mine.I am guessing so. They are used to cut hay. So I think it would work for wheat. But you would have to gather it by hand. Your suburban should take a sickle mower.
A sickle mower cant cut saplings as far as I know. It would mess up the teeth.
You can get away with it for a while, but it will catch up to you eventually. Kind of like cutting really high grass with a riding mower, it will do it, but your spindles on the deck won't last long.The guy I bought mine from said he cut saplings up to an inch and a half with it.He would pull up to it and gradually pull into it and it would shake the sapling and it would fall.No damage at all to mine.
I wouldn't be cutting anything over an inch.I've maintained where I intend to use mine.There are very small saplings I will be cutting.A gas powered hedge trimmer did the task before.The sickle bar is alot more durable and heavier built than the hedge trimmer!You can get away with it for a while, but it will catch up to you eventually. Kind of like cutting really high grass with a riding mower, it will do it, but your spindles on the deck won't last long.
maybe tow a sweeper with the arm of the sickle bar :trink40:shouldnt the wheat fall back, behind the sickle bar? i'd think so. soooooo, rig up a cart or something to catch it. maybe something like a leave sweeper could work too. just random thoughts...............
for 300 you can buy a sickle bar for a suburbanI know this is the Sears forum and I am about to commit a sin here but, you should take a look at a gravely 2 wheeler witha sickle bar on it. The Sears sickle bars are rare and usually expensive, plus you can have another "tractor" and that would give you one more that your hubby.
The gravelys can be found for under $300 plus there are a ton of attachments for them.
I will now go and appoligize to my Suburban for my sins.
i suggested it more as a way to catch the wheat. not try to pick it up?? What are you going to do with it after cutting? You are talking about 24-30" straw with the grain head on it. You will still need to separate the straw from the grain. I don't think a leaf sweeper will do anything with it, but choke up. Have you ever seen the amount of straw involved?