sickle mower question

bernieinva · Dec 13, 2016

Has anyone ever adapted a #50 side sickle mower to a 530, 630 or such?

Bob · Dec 13, 2016

I hope there's some responses! I have a 9' #5 missing the mounting bracket, and any ideas would be great to see.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 13, 2016

You'd have to run it off the rear PTO with a similar set up that the Allis Chalmers 82S mowers used on the D series tractors.

donjr · Dec 13, 2016

JD had a shaft that bolted on to the right axle with a belt to the rear pto amd a shaft with universals to run the mower on front. Don't know where any are now.......

Bob · Dec 13, 2016

Should be #50.

old · Dec 13, 2016

Over the years I have taken parts and piece of many old sickle bar mowers and made working ones to fit what ever I wanted them to. I have a JD #9 that I took parts and piece of a few other mowers and made work. I also year ago took parts of 2 or 3 sickle bar mowers and made a belly mount mower for a Farmall B and it even had a hyd lift by way of a power steering pump off a Chev pickup

jCarroll · Dec 13, 2016

I put a model 50 on a 40W tractor.

It hangs on the tractor using the JD mounting plate which would have been attached to the engine rails of a 4020 or such tractor. Yes, there was some drilling and tapping.

Used the belt pulley and shaft assembly from a model 10 mower to take the rear PTO drive under the axle and then a shaft maybe 30" long to the upper pulley on the mower.
I made an adapter on the model 50 upper pulley to accept the end of the drive shaft.

The hydraulic lift works off a valve cut into the TOM circuit.

It works very well for me to clip pastures and mow fencerows

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