Sickle mower head

I have welded this twice. It finally broke again and it is not repairable this time. I can still get it from my local Case IH dealer. Part number is MA999. They are $104.00 each. I kind of hate to put that kind of money in a mower that I have very little in. Does anyone know of somewhere else these can be purchased? If not, I will just have to live with the price. Thanks.

Might want to try guy down in North Carolina. He has several sickle bar mower setting around being parted out.
Also, has a large rack of various new and used sickles (some with heads) from a dealer auction up in Virginia somewhere the last time I stopped by to purchase a seed plate.
Great place look around if you in the area and looking for salvage parts, especially cultivator stuff.
Below is his website with contact info:


hope this helps
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(quoted from post at 19:10:47 05/22/16) I have welded this twice. It finally broke again and it is not repairable this time. I can still get it from my local Case IH dealer. Part number is MA999. They are $104.00 each. I kind of hate to put that kind of money in a mower that I have very little in. Does anyone know of somewhere else these can be purchased? If not, I will just have to live with the price. Thanks.

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Try sickle service

You can buy complete sickles at about any farm store in Nebraska. Myself, I prefer to use the double hard guards and sickles, which I get from an independent dealer.
What you have is the old IH head. THey have been in use for at least 50 years that I know of. I never had any luck welding them up either.

Rick, according to their web site Webb's sickle service (sickleservice dot com) has the entire assembly, bolted sections (rather than rivets) with MA999 head, for 99.41 (plus shipping) listed for IH "100 series balanced head mowers". I'm going to call them myself in a few minutes to see if that will fit the A-22 mower for my SA. I believe it should.

You weld them with brass with a torch, not a electric welder. They will always break doing that. And that head is a common item that was used for the horse drawn mowers starting with the No 4 in 1895 and used on the Big 4, No 6, Big 6, No7 & No. 9 horse mowers, the tractor mowers 25 & 27. As long as it is not a side mount mower or a balanced head that mower head is the one for it. I have bought good heads at flea markets-swap meets for as low as $2.00 a piece. And when they break it will always be in a rivit hole as that is the weaker part and right there where it is broke is weakest part of the head and where it gets the most up-down motion from a bar having loose hold downs, Be sure before you put a new one in that all your wear plates are in new condition and also hold downs are as well and just tight enough that the knife can slide without binding. The condition of the bar is what makes the heads break. Welding with steel no give in that weld, brass there is a bit and with the brass and torch you do not christilize the steel next to the weld so it breaks there. Clean up ALL and I mean ALL of the old weld and braze it and fix your cutter bar and unless it has too much wear on the ball that the clamp does not fit tight or the wear plate-hold down area of the head is too worn then it should last you for years.

I have.a nos in stock 30.00 plus shipping call link_disallowed ask for larry

Might try Ebay.

As always, you guys on here amaze me with what you know. I went to the sickle site and they have everything on there. It is honestly cheaper to just buy the entire sickle bar complete than redoing the one I have. I noticed I only have a couple of used guards left and they have them on there for less than $7.00 each. Case wanted $32.00 each. I also thank you for all the set information. I will be checking everything before running it again. I will let you know how this turns out.

If it has the bolts thenI think you have to change every hold downs as ones for rivets do not have bolt clearance.

(quoted from post at 06:26:48 05/25/16) If it has the bolts thenI think you have to change every hold downs as ones for rivets do not have bolt clearance.

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Leroy is correct all the hold downs must be changed if switching from riveted to bolt on sections.
Sickle service also has adjustable hold downs for most sickles. They are a little more expensive but give you a lot of adjustment without using a sledge.

(quoted from post at 06:26:48 05/25/16) If it has the bolts thenI think you have to change every hold downs as ones for rivets do not have bolt clearance.

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Leroy is correct all the hold downs must be changed if switching from riveted to bolt on sections.
Sickle service also has adjustable hold downs for most sickles. They are a little more expensive but give you a lot of adjustment without using a sledge.