Ford Dearborn 14-16 mower

slk

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Can you cut small brush/willow the size of your finger or a pencil from trails with a Ford Dearborn 14-16 mower? Did not know if it works like a big set of hedge clippers or not???

Thanks
Steve
 
If it will fit in the mower the sickle will cut it. Sun flowers stock is as tuff as any stock and it will cut them. Best way to do it is try.
 
If you have the mower already then try it.
I suspect it will choke and or break a pitman.
If you are thinking about buying a Dearborn sickle mower to cut this stuff you will be WAY ahead buying a brush mower for that task.
By the time you find all the odd brackets and links to mount it on your tractor and learn what a bear it is to mount you will be disgusted with the thing and wish you had left it lay.
 
I have a brush mower I pull behind a farmall H. Problem is I can't get off my road even 2 feet or I will sink the wheels in a bog on both sides. The road is firm but much off to either side is muck. I have a chance to pick up a sickle bar mower but have never used one. It was on a Ford NAA, which I have one of those my self.

Steve
 
When I was a kid we had an Allis Chalmers B and a JD horse drawn sickle mower. Dad on the tractor and me on the mower. We cut a lot of hay that way and then bunched it up with a dump rake and hand forked it onto a wagon then hand forked it into the haymow. Whew, what a lot of work.
After we finished mowing the small field between the house and the road we would always cut all the brush along the approaches to the driveway with the sickle mower. Up to about a pencil size it did pretty good if you did it frequently enough.
The advantage to the horse drawn mower is since it was ground driven the wheels would just slide if the brush got too thick and the sickle bar choked. So it wouldn't break anything.
The disadvantage was you had to drive fast to really get the mower moving to cut the brush.
Of course it would just about throw me off the mower when it'd choke but somehow, like a monkey, I'd hang on.
It was a 5' mower and we'd make about 3 passes wide off the road before like yours it got too wet.
I'm not much of a fan of those Dearborn sickle mowers but it would do some of what you need.
A Ford 501 sickle is a much better mower - at least for ease of mounting. They both use the same guards, ledger plates and knives on the cutting bar so one would do as well as the other for cutting.
I went by the old homestead where I lived as a kid a couple of years ago. The brush we used to mow is now all trees about 8"+ in diameter.
Time marches on and brush, like rust, never sleeps.
 
I have a Dearborn 14-15 which is the 6ft version. Yes it will cut saplings and stuff bigger than your finger. I did it on accident mowing a briar thicket down once. I didn"t know there were saplings in there and I couldn"t see them. You don"t have to worry about it breaking the pitman as yours should have a metal pitman arm on it.
 
When using these types of mowers do they have to rest on the ground, or can you raise the 3 point hitch and cut about a foot of the ground with the sickle bar suspended????

Steve
 
When using these types of mowers do they have to rest on the ground, or can you raise the 3 point hitch and cut about a foot of the ground with the sickle bar suspended????
Steve
 

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