Jiffy Balling Sickle Bar Mower

[Pfunk]

Here’s a picture of my new to me Jiffy Balling mower. Thanks Kent for giving it up.

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I used to mow with an H Farmall with a semi-mounted mower. With a little practice you could make a “square” corner by spinning the steering wheel and hitting the right brake as soon as the rear wheel passed the edge of the unmowed grass at a corner. The only way to make a square corner with this thing is to stop and back up at the end of each cut. But the mower does a nice job. My wife made a video of me trying it out. I’ll post a link to the video when I get it to my son, and he gets it uploaded.

Does anyone know anything about a Jiffy Balling mower other than what’s in the sales literature? (I’ve read the history of the Jiffy Balling company.) When I got this one, the main drive pulley set about ¾” too far forward to line up with the PTO. It bolted right up to the tractor, but didn’t line up. Some previous owner had taken a torch to it and cut a rough one inch strip off the back, bottom part of the mount. I assume they’d planned to slide it back and drill new mounting holes in the frame of the tractor. But that meant I’d have to drill a new hole through the front grill housing as well as really close to the Frankenstein bolt mount. I elected to just cut off the top of the mount, move the bottom section back and reweld it in place. You can see the weld here:

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You might also be able to make out where I welded back a 1 inch strip on the bottom, left side of the mounting bracket where someone had torched out a section.

I thought these were only manufactured for the early model Cub Cadets, including the Original. Do you think it’s possible that this was made for an Original and you had to drill new mounting holes? I’d sure be interested if anyone knows anything about them.

Hope this all works. I think I figured out how to post the correct images!!!

[Cubcrazy]

Congrats on the Jiffy Paul! Looks great!

[hdsdcouple]

Oh I need one of those, any one got one they want to give up?

[CADplans]

Nice grab on the sickle mower!!

It took me a while to learn the "tricks", but, a sickle will do things no other mower I have will do.

Mine would not cut, 'til I learned how to sharpen the guards!!

I cut grass today that was fully 1 foot high, after cutting!!



It was amazing watching that machine climb over the grass, I am raking it for my horses.

Will it ever dry?

[cubcadet]

congrats paul, very cool

[ACecil]

Nice find, you don't see those hardly at all!

[Pfunk]

I'm not sure how to do this, but my son uploaded a video of our mower here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Szjd...ature=youtu.be

I'm not sure if you'll be able to access it directly or not. Maybe some moderator can fix it for me if it doesn't work right --or tell me how to fix it. I looked in the help area but couldn't find anything that applies.

Under edit: Looks like the link works. You may be able to notice in some of the videos there's grass wrapped around the PTO drive. I found out it was important to have the PO shield in place!!! I don't think you can tell in the video, but it was "raining" grass.

[sgirdham]

That is really neat, thanks for the video!

[drglinski]

Sweet vid. Looks like it uses 1/4 of the fuel of a rotary mower.