14-92 sickle mower questions

8N Tim

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Hi everyone I just picked up a ford 14-92 sickle bar and its missing a couple parts and one of the stabilizer arms looks like it's broken. Does anybody have good pictures or a manual that shows what parts I need to find/ build? Any clear pictures would be amazing. Everything helps. Thanks
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My 2 never had stabilizer bars. My tractor does so no need.

I would be concerned about that metal pipe for the wooden pitman stick. Sticks break when something bad gets in the teeth. The pipe likely will not? What will break instead?

I don't see the top link. It is a couple of flat metals with a ball end, bolted together. The spring attaches to the upper link by 2 small floating flat bars. You really kinda need that, so the spring carries the weight and lets the mower float lightly over the ground.

You don't have a board on the end of the sickle bar. It deflects hay inward so there is a 6 inch bare patch of ground, so the hay doesn't fall over onto the uncut hay and gum up the mower the next round.

Paul
 
Tim,

That's a Ford 501 series sickle bar mower. The 14-92 refers to an attaching kit that enables you to mount the mower to some specific tractor. Ford offered a whole bunch of different attaching kits to enable the 501 to be used on various tractors.

You can pick up an I&T manual for the mower at most farm stores. I didn't check, but this site might have documents for this mower also.

Good luck. This series of mower can work pretty well, but they need to be set up properly to do so.

Tom in TN
 
Tim,

Now that I said all of that about the attaching kit, it occurred to me that the 14-92 designation is not an attaching kit number, that is a specific model of the 501 series. There are a bunch of attaching kits for different mowers, but I think that all of them use a 14-XXX designation (14 dash 3 digits).

So, anyway, it's a Ford 501 mower. The New Holland website has an extensive on-line library of parts / parts diagrams for old Ford and New Holland devices in the "Part Store" section of the agriculture portion of the website.

Tom in TN
 
I forget which model numbers are which.

One mower has a shorter frame, one a longer frame. That pipe frame going out to hold the sickle bar. The longer frame is for bigger tractors, gets the sickle out past a wider tire stance. So two different length pitman sticks is the only difference.

There are different size belts, to match different pulley sizes. My dealer said model number doesn't help, just need to measure.

Dealer got a little confused, sometimes it is a 501 mower, sometimes its a 14-xx mower. Seemed odd but depended who was looking up parts.....

Paul
 
My uncle had one of these mowers, worked good,

First thing you need to do is get that metal pitman rod off there, replace with a proper wood pitman rod, the wood pitman rod is a safety weak link, to protect the machine,

Believe me it's much easier to replace a wood pitman than all the broken parts you are looking at replacing on this mower, which were probably broken because of the metal pitman, which did not break,

Most guys that have and use one of these mowers have one or two old parts mowers in the woods line, as this thing will cost you a mint to replace one part at a time from the dealership
JMHO

Good luck with it an when you get it working, keep your fingers out of it, sickle mowers and corn pickers are very dangerous machines!
 
I'll bet a dealer can still get a manual. Try JenSales for manuals. They have repro manuals for just about everything.Try Ebay,there are alot of manuals there.You really NEED a manual.
 
The Dearborn and Ferguson mowers came from the factory designed like that. There is NO REASON to be thinking about a wood pitman being a safty link. When I ever broke anything with a knife drive it was always in the head or attaching parts or knife back. And the pitman never broke. Bought my first mower when I was 16 years old and was using mowers before that. I am now 72 and the only pitman I ever saw broke was because of neglect in that the wood was usually rotten from mower being left set outside all the time. And when the designers at the factory thought that steel pitman was good when that mower was designed for sale in 1948 and it is still there I see NO REASON to think about trying to modify something that was deemed safe back then with something that would not fit correctly and make trouble.
 
Yeah, I have a 14-15. The belt from the PTO to the pitman crank will slip before anything happens to that steel pitman.
 
8N,
just to be sure on the pitman I looked up a few pictures of 501 mowers
all I found had wooden pitman, but that does not mean you could not install a metal one.
just be sure to leave your drive belts loose so they can slip, if you do hit something, rather a belt slip than bust blade parts.

even my old MF32 mower has a wooden pitman and I have replaced one or two over the years.
set it down on a rock one time, that was a mess.


when you do get it back together, you need to get a manual and be sure you get the mower in register or time. That is very important if it is to cut right in heavy grass or hay.
it may cut weeds around the pond bank out of time, but not heavy hay.
again, just my experience with them,


good luck with it,
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I have a set of those but couldn't get them to fit into the clamps I have. They don't really attach to the lift arms. Mine are flat. It shows mine in the parts book as part #145999. I haven't found these part numbers yet but in the operators Manuel it shows these kind of stabilizers. I was just getting ready to put them on ebay.
 

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