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- Camdenton Missouri
But it is one I have welded together a time or to. They keep braking about 4-6 inch from the pitman ball mount and not in the same place as the weld. Still not able to figure out why they keep breaking. One thing I know that is not helping it the ledger plate on the other most guard is missing. It is the big guard that is at the end of the bar that has the swather board on it. So are all those guard the same?? I have one that was on a Ford 515 sickle bar mower that is good so if there the same I'll swap it out and see if that helps. I'm getting good at changing the bars. Did in in less then 10 minutes yesterday and installed the new bar I had just rebuilt that has no welds on it and all new section. Mowed for 1.5 hours yesterday came in to cool off then went back out to mow the rest of the front field and got maybe 2o feet when the bar broke.