8n Ford and IH 1300 mower

RyaninKS · Mar 7, 2015

Anybody have any experience with this setup? I recently picked up an old 1300 mower at a sale that is complete but hasn't been used in a very long time. Anyways, these my machine has the little "roller" that is designed to ride on the lift arm to raise the cutter bar with the rest of the mower but it doesn't seem to be long enough... I can't take enough slack out of the chain to get it close enough to the lift arm... Does this sound familiar? Am I doing something wrong?

JD Seller · Mar 8, 2015

I have never seen a IH 1300 mower that used a roller on the lift arm. They had a bracket that went into the drawbar hole to pull the cable/chain when you lifted the mower. Are you sure what your calling a roller is not the spacer that went into drawbar hole???

The cable/linkage hooks to the drawbar so when the mower is lifted up the linkage/cable gets tighter and lifts the end of the mower up.

Anything that attaches to the lift arm would move with the lift arm and not lift the end of the sickle up.

Adirondack case guy · Mar 8, 2015

Do you have a real center drawbar to fasten the lift linkage to??
Loren, the Acg.

GarryinNC · Mar 8, 2015

Will it lift the cutter bar at all, or does the outer end stay on the ground? They do not lift very high, even when everything is working properly. Just enough to clear what you have already mowed.

wolfman · Mar 8, 2015

I have a 1300 with the "roller" that comes up under the lift arm for lifting the cutter bar. Seems to work kinda slick. I've had the mower on at least ten tractors over the years, one was a 4100 Ford. The roller worked better on the other nine tractors - they all had a little wider lift arms.

RyaninKS · Mar 8, 2015

Yes, I am positive it is a roller. At it's highest setting with the mower all the way up it just starts to make the end of the bar "light" but it never actually gets off the ground. I wedged a piece of 2x4 between the roller and arm just for sh*ts and grins while playing around in the yard and it worked better so I'm sure it's just a matter of getting things adjusted right but that roller doesn't seem to be mounted high enough? I thought about changing it over to the cable style lift but everything ive read online says people really prefer the roller, plus I don't have an actual drawbar to tie the cable too, i'll try to get a pic or two in the next couple days so you guys can see what I mean.

rod in nebraska · Mar 10, 2015

I have a 1300 on a oliver super 55, it lift about 2-3 feet in the air, the roller really works, try cranking your one lift arm on the 3 point and make it shorter, should be the right one,rod

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