Hi, I'm Tim from Everything Attachments, and we're here today with a sickle bar mower. This is normally used to cut your hayfields before you bale them. This particular mower will cut at a good angle down if you want to be able to cut around a pond. It will also cut at 90-degree straight up to cut a hedge or something. It's a pretty unique mower. It also comes with double valving on the hydraulic line that controls the hydraulic cylinder so you can control how fast it goes down and how fast it comes up.
Now, the name on the back of this is Feraboli. It's made in Italy. It also resembles a Rossi, very close. In other words, it resembles it so close all the parts will interchange and I don't want to really get into that. It's just like a Rossi, says Feraboli on the back. It also may be called a Farmax depending on who's distributing it. This is a really good have heavy made mower, I've sold the New Hollands for a lot of years. The New Hollands mowers now the Fiat owns them are also an Italian mower. This is a really great mower, it has a casted end piece here. These plates here that hold down your sickle. The way they've done, New Holland uses what's called a wobble box. There's a whole lot of energy going on in there with some huge bearings. When they're good they're good, and when they're bad you spend a lot of money.
This uses basically the same thing externally. It has a cam in the back of it with these control arms. When you turn that, these go back and forth, and that's what controls your sickle going back and forth. It's a simpler way, a much less expensive way if you do have problems, and an easier way to maintenance what's called normally the wobble box on the New Holland. Its got some neat features, its got a really nice mechanism, so if you do hit something large like a pole or fence or something in the field to let it spring back and we'll move the camera over here in a minute and show it to you. This is a really heavy-duty sickle and if you go and buy some of the others, you're going to notice this in the middle of the price but it's about as high-quality mower you're gonna find on the market. We're going to switch the camera, we're gonna bring it in here close and we're goona show you some of the main guts of what's here and how it works.
Now that we're down in the guts of this thing, we just wanna show you a few more of the components. You've got a really high tension spring right here. That's going to adjust the three matched belts that are in here. You've got a slide right here with a big spring mechanism, so if you hit something in the field, it's gonna let that slide all the way out to right there. You've got over a foot of travel there that's gonna be able to relieve on the end if you hit something. You also do have dual hookup. If you have a smaller tractor you can hook up on the inside instead of the outside. Comes with the bushings here, tension here for the end of the boom. This is all casted here. It's a very heavy-duty piece, meant for a lot of hours of use in the field. What we were talking about earlier to make this easy to unhook, you simply flip this up and then it lets it become even with the other side when you put your stand down, so this doesn't try to go crazy with you and makes it real easy to hook back up.
We're going to show it to you with the blades running. Let's get our tractor fired up here. We're gonna show you how the wobble box works here and we're gonna lift it up and show it to you in action. Go ahead, Peanut. It's a real simple design. These are working just like fingers. It's got a cam in there. It's a super simple design, it works like a champ. Go ahead and lift it up, Peanut.
You can see that you can lift it up without having to cut it off or anything. Lift it up a little more, Peanut. You could come up…we're gonna stop right there, but you could come up to the full 90 degrees. Well, he's going to anyway and then it will go down 75 degrees below flush. That's like you would use it to mow hay with right there. All of that when you see it spring and load, it's all controlled here with this spring to how you make it work. This is a great mower. Gives us a call or an email. Anything, any questions that we can do to help you.
Right on the back of the mower, you can see it does say Feraboli on the back. It highly resembles a Rossi mower out of Italy. You may also find it under Farmax sold here in the USA. This is a very high-quality Italian-made mower comes with some neat features. Now this mower will mow down at 75 degrees. That's about 45, so it's nearly straight down, is what it's capable of. I don't know that you would ever mow that far down. It's also capable of running at 90 degrees which is straight up and a lot of people trim their hedges with them and so forth. It's a real capable mower. It has triple belts in here that go all the way down to the wobble box.
For a mower like this, the drive shaft is just driving a big pulley on the back going straight to the only moving parts on the mower as far as what's cutting the hay or around your ponds and so forth. It's got some really neat features. It does come with the category two bushings if you're putting on a category two tractor. It also comes with a rod here, so when you pick it up for transport you can lock it safe and it isn't gonna fall down during your transport. It also, and I'll show you a picture of it, has a really neat bracket that goes underneath here. You just flip it up, in that way when you uninstall this from your tractor and you put your stand down, it keeps all of this from just…this thing is a mess without that bracket and without the stand trying to hook and unhook it. Between the two things, it lets it sit square like a normal implement and lets it be hooked and unhooked much easier.
Now, the hydraulic line that controls, you can get this in a manual lift if you want to lift that thing up. I wouldn't really recommend it. I would always want the hydraulic cylinder. If I didn't have a remote valve on my tractor, didn't want to spend the $700, $800 dollars then I might would consider the manual. If I've got a remote valve, I definitely want a hydraulic lift on this. With this hydraulic line, it has two different control valves here for the flow. One on how fast it drops, one on how fast it picks up. Instead of it just being a line plugged in and it being pretty violent on how fast it jerks up or how fast it drops down, you can totally dial these in and make it the way you want it.
This is not your economy mower. We've got it priced is reasonable for the quality it is. It's half the price of a New Holland, but it's not in the low-quality end stuff. It's a really high-quality mower. We're happy to sell it at Everything Attachments. Regardless of what name you see on the back and what you think it is, parts are readily available here in North Carolina, we'll have no problem servicing it, and just think it will be a great hay-making mower.
This is actually going to a golf course near us where they're gonna mow around their ponds and do their hedges with it. If you've got any questions about your tractor and the sizes that you need for your tractor, it does come in different lengths five, six, seven, and so forth. I don't think the five is going to be really popular. Seven is the most popular and that's what this is. Seven was always the most popular when we sold New Holland. It also has a chain right here on one side, so when you drop it, it equalizes the pressure of that long boom sticking out of your sickle bar mower. There's a lot of things I like on this mower. Give us a call or an email at Everything Attachments and we'll be happy to size this for your tractor.
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