McCormick #9 Horse Drawn Mower

cleddy

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I need to make a tongue for a #9 mower. Does anyone have the dimensions? Around 1970 near the end of my Grandfather's use the tongue broke and he make one out of an oak log or post which was crude and also long gone.

I could just stick a 4 x 4 (3.5"x3.5")in but some of the tongues on old equipment were quite detailed and specially tapered. I know it will be 4.25"-4.50" to fit snuggly in the socket where they bolt on but don't know what shape toward the end was original. Knowing the length would be helpful and I understand for tractor use would be shorter than for horses. If I use it would be pulled with a small tractor at slow speed. Thanks in advance.
Cleddy
 
When we first started, we used an old horse drawn mowing machine. I just measured the plate that it would bolt onto then I figured how long I would need it to be for making turns. Made the tongue out of oak and bolted plates onto the end with holes down through them for a drawbar pin. Nothing fancy and it worked pretty darned good. Don't need a taper, that was for the horse evener to slide onto. Just my thoughts, Keith
 
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If you have a <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/McCormick-Deering-No-9-Mower-Manual-IHC-OP-Parts-International-Harvester-/331829997089?hash=item4d429bee21:m:m5mc9cMRTyiE9WtB-ePErxQ">McCormick Deering No. 9 Mower Manual</a>, then check the tongue part number [b:654c4848f0]M 22638[/b:654c4848f0].

If the tongue part number is [b:654c4848f0]M 22638[/b:654c4848f0], then the No. 9 mower and No. 7 mower use the same tongue.

Take a look at the photos below of the tongue dimensions on our No. 7 mower.

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The overall length of the tongue is 145".

Hope this helps.
 

Daddy fixed up a hitch for our no. 9 mower out of a piece of wood about 5 or 6 feet long, big enough to fill in the housing in the mower, as pictured in the above post. The tractor was a Case S which has a low drawbar so he trimmed the top of the wood at an angle where it fits into the housing. He cut it with and ax and drawing knife. The angle was such that it tilted the mower back at an angle similar to what the angle would be if horse drawn since the harness would hold the end on the tongue high up on the harness. What I suggest is that you pull the mower with a tractor that has 3ph so that you can put the tongue straight in the housing and raise the 3ph drawbar to get the cutterbar at the right angle. Most of the weight of the mower is no the tongue BTW so an operator can sit on the mower seat without it wanting to tilt backwards.

There is a foot lever and a hand lever to raise the cutterbar. It can be raised a small amount for turning at the corners. I thing you can stand behind the mower and use the foot lever in combination with your weight on the hand lever to raise the blade for transport. Someone has to then put the transport rod over into the hole in the cutterbar and then put the wing nut on. My recollection is that a single operator could pick up the end or the cutterbar and fold it up, being careful not to catch a finger in the blade, then take to transport rod, put the threaded end in the hole and put the nut on. Have fun.

KEH
 

11 foot long. Don't use a softwood 4x4. You'd be better off with steel than softwood, but the traditional wood is ash or hickory.
 
Don't have one avaible for to measure length right now for tractor use. But depending on your tractor if you can hitch far enough to right on drawbar you can get by without running rear tractor in standing hay, a lot of tractors you cannot swing that hitch far enough to right on. In that case you need to make an offset in the toung so as to be able to get correct hitch alignment to your tractor. And that mower with a horse toung and seat in good field ready condition with no paint will retail in my area for $1,500 up for a 5' bar and more for a 6' bar. They were also avaible with 7' bar. And all cutter bar parts are same as for tractor mowers and all seals for gearbox are easily avaible. The McCormick No 7 & 9 and the Deere Big 4 are very desireable mowers for use here with the McCormick slightly prefered. And they are designed for a 2.5 mile walking speed. Would yours be a regular gear or a high gear model, will tell on tool box lid.
 

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