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Steel Plates Extend Disc Mower Life
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 mowe
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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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