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Rowse Double Bar Mower

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PureCountry

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Anybody - other than Dylan - have one of these or had experience with one? I'm thinking of trying one because I'm tired of this discbine firing rocks through tractor windows and replacing knives every hour. Would also like to see if the sickle mowing and raking would speed our curing time.

Any advice, suggestions or pictures would be greatly appreciated.
 
Does anyone have a rock roller in your neighborhood? If you push the rocks into the ground they won't break your windows anymore. After running a disc mower I would hate to go back to running a sickle bar mower.
 
Have two of them, one with new Holland heads, and one with IH balanced heads. Like them both, with good guards and new sickles under seriated run them a week before changing. Both these are hydraulic driven, would not even think of using the pto style, with all those u-joints I might go insane greasing and maintaining them. Just use good moly base grease and grease it every time you get off or take a break. NOT the balanced head though, it is a grease every 30-40 hrs. But DO need to grease the hell out of the pin that runs the sickle on the IH head. Have any questions shot I will answer best I can. Good luck Brent.

PS we run double 9s and mow as fast as we can ride most of our ground 5-6 mph.
 
I run double9 hydraulic Kosch mower. They are grass cutters but heavy alfalfa is a challenge. I think I have them figured out a bit better now but rank Alfalfa caused problems the first year i used them. But them it was so rank it gave just about everybody problems a couple years ago.
 
My rowse dbl 9 will cut about any kind of grass but to many legumes it starts catching and wrapiing on the drive belt and the power shafts. Most years it's a non issue but in heavy thick hay is when the discbine comes out. To me they excel in grass hay we cut about 80% of our hay with it. It will lay it down in about 1/2 the time of our discbine. With a fuel economical belarus running it my disc bine takes power and power needs fuel.
 
Denny said:
My rowse dbl 9 will cut about any kind of grass but to many legumes it starts catching and wrapiing on the drive belt and the power shafts. Most years it's a non issue but in heavy thick hay is when the discbine comes out. To me they excel in grass hay we cut about 80% of our hay with it. It will lay it down in about 1/2 the time of our discbine. With a fuel economical belarus running it my disc bine takes power and power needs fuel.
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This is the another reason I like the hydraulic, motors fasten right to the back of the drive head where the belt runs, so this will lessen the wrapping problems
 
Sandhills boy said:
Denny said:
My rowse dbl 9 will cut about any kind of grass but to many legumes it starts catching and wrapiing on the drive belt and the power shafts. Most years it's a non issue but in heavy thick hay is when the discbine comes out. To me they excel in grass hay we cut about 80% of our hay with it. It will lay it down in about 1/2 the time of our discbine. With a fuel economical belarus running it my disc bine takes power and power needs fuel.
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This is the another reason I like the hydraulic, motors fasten right to the back of the drive head where the belt runs, so this will lessen the wrapping problems
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We've had two Rowse hydraulic mowers and one Kosch hydraulic mower in recent years. Now our main double nine foot mower is a Kosch power take-off type, and the lady mowing personnel of our crew prefer it by far over the hydraulic models.
 
Ya I hear some really like the kosch, the only reason we did not try one was because we had couple of neighbors who had problems breaking the bars off. At 900+ for a bar I did not was to be a genie pig. But I think maybe they have got that problem resolved. This is kind of like who makes the best pickup conversation. They all get the job done, just depends on what you prefer and the things you can't stand.
 
PureCountry said:
Thanks for input folks. Greatly appreciated.

Soap, what do the ladies not like about the hydraulic model?
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I do know Soap's hydraulic Kosch broke a bar or two. I have a newer Kosch and they admitted the first had problems but have since change bar suppliers. I did bend one but it was the break away set too tight. My bad.
 
BMR I was talking to Dylan the other day and he said the same thing - heavy first cut alfalfa that was lodged and twisted up was the only thing his Rowse double 9 has had trouble with.

As for mole hills, where we are in southern BC there just isn't the equipment available. It would cost me a fortune to buy and ship in some specially designed levelling implement and I haven't found anyone that has already done so. I will be floating it with whatever I can rig up with scrap pipe or rail irons and harrows. It's not that I'm trying to avoid dealing with the bumps and rocks, they will get levelled. The real appeal to me of the double 9 sickle mower is laying down 18' in one pass and knowing it's going to cure in way less time than my discbine windrows. We had a forecast change here in 24 hours and were scrambling to finish baling last night. Good thing since we woke up to socked in rain this morning and now the forecast says rain all week.

Being able to get it knocked down is one thing, having it cured, raked, baled and shedded in 3-4 days after is another.
 
PureCountry said:
BMR I was talking to Dylan the other day and he said the same thing - heavy first cut alfalfa that was lodged and twisted up was the only thing his Rowse double 9 has had trouble with.

As for mole hills, where we are in southern BC there just isn't the equipment available. It would cost me a fortune to buy and ship in some specially designed levelling implement and I haven't found anyone that has already done so. I will be floating it with whatever I can rig up with scrap pipe or rail irons and harrows. It's not that I'm trying to avoid dealing with the bumps and rocks, they will get levelled. The real appeal to me of the double 9 sickle mower is laying down 18' in one pass and knowing it's going to cure in way less time than my discbine windrows. We had a forecast change here in 24 hours and were scrambling to finish baling last night. Good thing since we woke up to socked in rain this morning and now the forecast says rain all week.

Being able to get it knocked down is one thing, having it cured, raked, baled and shedded in 3-4 days after is another.
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You get the picture! I wore out a couple of 9 foot single bar Allis mowers in my younger years. They were a pleasure (almost) to operate....no pitman stick and would cut anything at almost any angle. Never ran a double 9 but I'm sure they are great for big acres. I always got more money for small squares of grass hay that were mowed vs. swathed. Better color, maybe.

Drying time is the big plus. If you have the right tools, you can replace sickle sections as fast as blades on a discbine, so that argument won't work.

I hope you find the mower you want. I think you are on the right track.
 

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