slim_boy_fat
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I am not experienced at stick, and I would still have to buy 5# which is rather expensive. I cannot get single sticks of hardface from the ag dealers.
It may have taken 20 years to get to the current point, but the material was a hard edge. Hardox plate I cannot find at the local metal yards. I can buy a new hardedge from Ford/New Holland, but again, we are talking the corners of the bucket, not the entire front edge.
If you know a local farmer you can actually use the old cutter blades from a combine harvester and trim the cutting edge off, these are very hard and wear out regularly and are changed, they come as a top and bottom cutter and larger cutter heads come with them in two or three pieces, top and bottom.
Some are and some aren't, the latest MF are 10mm thick.
Phoned a mate who sells and repairs agri equipment and he said some of the Fendt are also around 8mm now and they come in complete sets so if someone trashes one blade the lot have to be removed.
Surely so... combine knives have never been thick because they never have to be - thin, sharp and keep reciprocating mass low like you say!Thinking about this again it isn't forage harvester blades your thinking of is it, they're a good bit thicker.
Surely so... combine knives have never been thick because they never have to be - thin, sharp and keep reciprocating mass low like you say!
Or drum rasps or something like that maybe.