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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 403312" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I don;t see New Idea as an ff brank, just a smaller one. I bought ours used, 9 years old at the time. One of the things I like about it is the simplicity. It's all gear driven down throguh each cutter, I would suppose tha there is a way to damage one gear in such a way that it could take out more, just have never seen it on any of the gear driven jobs. Adjusting the cutter timing is easy, you jus take the pot off and add or subtract shims as needed. The local farm store carrys blades for it, JD delaer carrys them, the independent tha just closed his doors carried blades for it. From when I was looking for blades it seems that the only other manufacutrer that anyone had a selection of blades for was Vermeer. I've only had it 2 seasons and all I've done is replace blades and grease the cutter pots and it the zircs a lick. Apparantly the previous owner didn;t understand lubricants cause it was drier then a popcorn fart when I got it. It had a strange metallic clicking noise when I got it and used it for the first 50 acres, that was a test drive to see if I wanted it or not. When I pulled the pots off I found about 10 feet of heavy gauge wire about a 4 gauge fence wire wrapped around the shaft under the pot. Ours is an 8 footer, if the time comes to buy a new one or got to a 10 footer I'll definitely be looking at New Idea before the others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 403312, member: 34"] I don;t see New Idea as an ff brank, just a smaller one. I bought ours used, 9 years old at the time. One of the things I like about it is the simplicity. It's all gear driven down throguh each cutter, I would suppose tha there is a way to damage one gear in such a way that it could take out more, just have never seen it on any of the gear driven jobs. Adjusting the cutter timing is easy, you jus take the pot off and add or subtract shims as needed. The local farm store carrys blades for it, JD delaer carrys them, the independent tha just closed his doors carried blades for it. From when I was looking for blades it seems that the only other manufacutrer that anyone had a selection of blades for was Vermeer. I've only had it 2 seasons and all I've done is replace blades and grease the cutter pots and it the zircs a lick. Apparantly the previous owner didn;t understand lubricants cause it was drier then a popcorn fart when I got it. It had a strange metallic clicking noise when I got it and used it for the first 50 acres, that was a test drive to see if I wanted it or not. When I pulled the pots off I found about 10 feet of heavy gauge wire about a 4 gauge fence wire wrapped around the shaft under the pot. Ours is an 8 footer, if the time comes to buy a new one or got to a 10 footer I'll definitely be looking at New Idea before the others. [/QUOTE]
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