>Allan, >1st is your last about a sickle mower it had better come with a 20 >year old to run it. >It will beat you & the equipment to a pulp, it does mow well but you >think the spader is slow! Now maybe a sulky and a laptop would make >it bearable. But don't forget the engine is in your face while >mowing. (my Farris is also)
hmm, I rented a troybilt sickle mower a few years back. (not twenty then, either) and happily mowed an acre of johnson grass mixed with datura and amaranth. Like butter. I felt like a greenland Paul Bunyan. The troybilt model is discontinued. I wouldn't be looking for one for regular mowing, but for recovery or initial mowing. I have a rolling line trimmer now, but find it very slow and am so very tired of both installing new line and of finding bits of line EVERYWHERE. What are you recommending as a tiller width? I could live with 3ft wide beds but I don't know that I could horse around a 3ft wide tiller. And if I did, at what horsepower? (9hp?) Thanks
