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steve19438 · Oct 16, 2016

last time for this. posted these pics awhile back and asked if anyone could see a sherm up/down trans lever. got a brother who insists he can see one.
ah brotherly love.
thanks

52geemsee · Oct 16, 2016

I don't see one.

howdy1960 · Oct 16, 2016

I don't see one either

Tim PloughNman Daley RIP · Oct 16, 2016

I don't see a Sherman shift lever but what is that gizmo on the lower left below the steering drag link???

Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)

racsan · Oct 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:32:59 10/16/16) I don't see a Sherman shift lever but what is that gizmo on the lower left below the steering drag link???

Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)

I'm guessing it's part of a mount for a mid-mounted sickle bar mower. Never saw one on a ford, but that's what I'm thinking it could be.

Jerry9N · Oct 16, 2016

Nope, no Sherman. Some kind of sickle mower?

Royse · Oct 16, 2016

I don't see a Sherman handle. Ask him to point it out to us.

Gizmo looks to be a sickle bar mount.

Second picture is not of me, but that boy sure looks like he has
the feeling I get when I bring one of these back from the dead!

steve19438 · Oct 16, 2016

sickle bar. I cut a lot of grass with it.

Darryl 2Ms · Oct 16, 2016

That is definitely a mount for a side mounted sickle mower. Just put one on my 9n last year. Don't see a sherman lever though. Have one of those too!

Charles Krammin · Oct 16, 2016

The rod that comes across, between the bell housing and steering sector, underneath the tool box, is the safety rod attached to the clutch linkage and the mower blade on the other side. When you hit something with the sickle bar, it pulled down on the clutch to stop the forward motion.
It worked, however when it pulled down on the clutch, it also set the left brake. Can't disengage shift lever, because of pressure. Delimina???
If grass or weeds or brush caused pressure on sickle bar-then get old steel fence post and lift up on sickle bar.
If a tree, then get another tractor to pull the mower tractor backwards.
If you were like me and 10 years old and no other tractor, you walked to the barn and got a jack and jacked up the left side rear and moved tractor backwards.
The mower was a bear to put on and take off, so you left it on the rest of haying season.
It had a short pitman arm and you could trim hedges. It was well built.
Was glad when Dad got the 8N and a 14-16 Dearborn and traded in the Ferguson side mount mower.
BTDT thru WW II
Ole timer Charles Krammin

Benj R · Oct 16, 2016

Thanks for posting the nice pictures.( Do not see a Sherman shifter )

tractorguy2 · Oct 16, 2016

I don't see a lever for an overdrive.

Grandpa had a 46 2n with overdrive. It didn't have a lever. It had a cable with a knob. The knob was located on the dash. You pulled the knob out to shift to overdrive.

steve19438 · Oct 17, 2016

my other brother says the only time he ever heard dad cuss was when he was putting the mower on the tractor.

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