I just got this Hesston 1090 mower conditioner. I really had to find something to mow with as the self propelled Hesston I have needs a drive shaft replaced, which is gonna take some work, and the sickle bar just ain't getting it. I've been looking for a couple of weeks, but there were'nt many for sale around me, especially in my price range. This one was about a hundred miles from me, so I pulled it home on some back roads and two lane highways. The hubs were not even warm when I got it home. I had to get a hydraulic hose and a set of couplers so I could just use the cylinder off the three point hitch. I put a heavy duty ratcheting top link in it's place since I use a drawbar on the three point hitch because the original won't fit with this one. I borrowed a pto shaft from a sickle bar since it take a longer shaft with the drawbar setup I have. I mowed some really heavy grass/clover/alfalfa hay in third and it mowed great. It really worked the M. I might have been able to do forth, but there's a couple of decent hills and there's no point in overdoing it. I might have to add another set of weights on the front though, that mower is pretty dang heavy. It sure runs circles around a sickle bar mower!
