Will they fight??????????

Goose

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I have an M Farmall and a John Deere #5 sickle bar mower. Planning on merging the two.
 
They can be friends. Some mating preparation is always needed. Aligning the drive shaft is important, adjust the left wheel position to create a clean swath without driving on the uncut cut hay. Jim
 
Actually, I have a plan and most of the pieces. I'll post some pics when I get it put together.
 
No I don't think so. I mounted a #5 behind my 8N Ford using a loop drawbar from a H Int. by dropping it a few inches below the fender bolts. Mower came off a H. Drawbar setup is the best thing. If I have to pull anything it is low and 3 point arms are above it.. I don't see any fighting yet.
 
Don't know how an M will work with a JD but when I was about 14 we had an M with a new IH side mount mower and new Cunnigham or New Idea, can't remember now, conditioner. That was a mowen machine, seems like I'd mow about every morning, then rake what I cut the day before. Some times I'd get loaned out to the neighbors with that rig when we got caught up at home.
 
Red and Green work well together for sure!

Here's a 1952 Super C running my No.5 with a 7 foot bar. 3rd gear, wide open, knocking hay FAST!!! :)

LOVE it! Perfect combo... Live hydraulics to lift/lower the bar without breaking a sweat, independent brakes, easy pto, easy trans. Just a great setup... Bryce
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Actually, John Deere meant for that mower to be used with all kinds of tractors. I believe at the time they even made whatever brackets were required. If you've ever seen an operator's manual for that mower, it's only the first couple pages that actually tell how to run the mower. The whole rest of the book consists of instructions and diagrams on how to mount the mower on every brand of tractor that was available at that time.
 
#5 will work with any tractor, if you have the proper brackets to attach it.
We had neighbors years ago that didn't like John Deere, but they loved their WD Allis with the #5 JD mower.
If the field was smooth they could some time use high gear, other brands of mowers would plug up at that speed.
 
i have one i use on back of a fordson power major that i use to trim around the edges of fields after haying.works great.made my own mounts and use a remote cylinder to raise and lower.
 
i run a #5 on my 42 m. good combination. tried it on a jd A i burrowed from kruser, dang wheels kept falling off the tractor, and it would get stuck on a cow pie. heres a pic.

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(quoted from post at 22:52:10 05/19/15) I have an M Farmall and a John Deere #5 sickle bar mower. Planning on merging the two.

It should be a good combination. I pulled a #5 JD mower with an 830 Case when I first started farming 35 years ago. I made a bracket so I could pick it up with the 3pt hitch. I now pull a JD round baler with an IH 826.
 
You can put a #5 on any tractor that has something sticking out back to bolt to and a PTO. I tried a #5 with a 7 foot bar on a B Farmall and it worked but the front end of the tractor wanted to slide sideways in heavy cutting.
 
This was all kind of "tongue in cheek".

I ran a #5 JD mower on an H Farmall once. I'm making the brackets the same way.
 
JD mower on H was main setup on home farm, worked fairly good. JD 3 bottom pull plow on M worked also. JD disk on 350D was good for bean field prep. Thing about lots of JD equipment is it was designed to be used on almost any brand of tractor, the equipment line was a profit maker even in areas where the tractors weren't big sellers. JD27 picker manual at old home has the main used pages being the 'mount on IHC M' section. RN
 
I remember when dad bought a mower just like that and hitched it up to the old Farmall H. When he ran the mower just sitting there it made the tractor shake, fortunately the shake went away while the H was moving.
 

Did it the opposite way. I think it was a International 24v I used on a JD A. Worked fine. I later put the same mower on an Oliver 550. It worked fine also.

KEH
 
I've gotta tell you,that brings back a memory. When I was in high school ag mechanics class,the whole FFA Chapter went to the sale in Archbold to buy a tractor to rebuild. Dad took most of them on the bus,but the two neighbor brothers and I took the truck and trailer so the chapter could buy a tractor for the class to rebuild.
The advisor had his eye on an H with a JD number 5 mower. The old gal smoked pretty bad and needed paint so he ended up buying it. We had to take the mower off to get it on the trailer. We got it unbolted from the drawbar. I was on the tractor and when I let the clutch out to pull ahead,the advisor put his hand up on the cutterbar to steady it. The pitman hit the ground and drove the knives up. He jumped back,grabbed his wrist and started jumping around.
I looked up and the end of his finger was sticking out of a guard. There was another local guy there that day,he grabbed the piece of finger and said "We'd better take that,they'll sew it back on". They got him up to the office and took him to the hospital. We got home with the tractor on the trailer long before the bus got back. In fact,the superintendent called the house and wanted to know where they were,he was getting calls from parents wanting to know where their kids were.
 
Mowed hay with my M and #5 for about 15 years. Bought them when I was first married and started farming in 1964. Dad had a #5 behind our '46 JD A and I cut a lot of hay with that rig. I still have the mower I bought in 1964 but haven't used it for many years.
 
It would work a lot better if you had power steering on that M.

Mowed about a million acres of hay with one, but we had an IH, balanced head mower.

Gene
 
No joke really I can't imagine a day on a M with the sorry excuse for a steering set up they have my shoulders would ache for two days and then fighting a Pitman mower would really be the final straw.Only thing worse would be a Case SC or DC would probably come home with no thumbs after hitting a couple holes.
 

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