Hey Darrin, Thanks for the video. Here is something I did seemed to help me with my drum mower. I adjust my top link which angles the drums slightly back so there is more ground clearance in the front of the drum and believe it or not but it raises the height of cut i probably leave about 3-3.5" maybe 4" the other plus if you have any small flat rocks in the fields it will want to skim over them easier. Never want to hit a rock but should you come across one I found it's better than having the drum lay flat. Lastly I have found no difference in cut quality or performance of the drum mower by doing this. Talk soon Hay season will be here quicker than we know it !
We love our drum mower. We also purchased a height adjustment kit for our ibex mower. It cuts about a 3 1/2 inch stubble with the height adjustment, it was to short at the factory setting. The ibex can only have 1 shim from the factory, but if you're handy you can make it taller. 3 1/2 inch stubble is fine. Our field is as rough as it gets. We still get the cutters in the dirt some, if I could go to 4 1/2 inch stubble I would. May make another set just not yet. Informative video, thanks bud.
We sure like our drum mower too, I’ve been seeing more and more drum mowers around too, they are catching on some. With 2 spacers above factory height is about as low as I wanna go, the cut quality there is fantastic. Thanks for the kind words, yall are fantastic.
We run the fdm 185 and had the same issue horrible cut quality will all spacers on each side, we removed half of them and the quality was fantastic. 3 spacers seems to be the best of both worlds.
Yes! Good comment! Our cut quality with 6 spacers per drum was not horrible, but not great either, and thats somewhat relevant to he person's likes I guess. Actually at 1st cut with high grass and stems, it was actually pretty good, but once we got into 2nd and later cuts with stemmy grass, the cut quality really suffered, to me anyhow. Thanks a bundle for sharing your experience also, much appreciated!
@8thdaychronicles We have 1 field we are reclaiming that is full of broom sedge and with all spacers it would only cut about 70% of the sedge and would just knock it over.
Hey Darrin,
Thanks for the video. Here is something I did seemed to help me with my drum mower. I adjust my top link which angles the drums slightly back so there is more ground clearance in the front of the drum and believe it or not but it raises the height of cut i probably leave about 3-3.5" maybe 4" the other plus if you have any small flat rocks in the fields it will want to skim over them easier. Never want to hit a rock but should you come across one I found it's better than having the drum lay flat. Lastly I have found no difference in cut quality or performance of the drum mower by doing this. Talk soon
Hay season will be here quicker than we know it !
Thanks, Jimmy! It’s interesting to hear other folks methods. Appreciate you sharing.
Pray you and family are doing well!
Thanks for the video. Happy New Year and God bless you and your family.
Thank you Sir. I pray God blesses you richly!
We love our drum mower. We also purchased a height adjustment kit for our ibex mower. It cuts about a 3 1/2 inch stubble with the height adjustment, it was to short at the factory setting. The ibex can only have 1 shim from the factory, but if you're handy you can make it taller. 3 1/2 inch stubble is fine. Our field is as rough as it gets. We still get the cutters in the dirt some, if I could go to 4 1/2 inch stubble I would. May make another set just not yet.
Informative video, thanks bud.
We sure like our drum mower too, I’ve been seeing more and more drum mowers around too, they are catching on some. With 2 spacers above factory height is about as low as I wanna go, the cut quality there is fantastic. Thanks for the kind words, yall are fantastic.
We run the fdm 185 and had the same issue horrible cut quality will all spacers on each side, we removed half of them and the quality was fantastic. 3 spacers seems to be the best of both worlds.
Yes! Good comment!
Our cut quality with 6 spacers per drum was not horrible, but not great either, and thats somewhat relevant to he person's likes I guess. Actually at 1st cut with high grass and stems, it was actually pretty good, but once we got into 2nd and later cuts with stemmy grass, the cut quality really suffered, to me anyhow.
Thanks a bundle for sharing your experience also, much appreciated!
@8thdaychronicles We have 1 field we are reclaiming that is full of broom sedge and with all spacers it would only cut about 70% of the sedge and would just knock it over.