McCormick Deering No 7

I bought a McCormick Deering No 7 horse drawn mower last year for $100 at an auction.

The mower I bought was about 90% complete.

I also bought an operator�s manual/parts list for the mower on eBay.

Take a look at the photo of another mower that appears to be a complete.

Hopes this helps.

A previous owner made a pitman out of stainless steel. It will probably last my lifetime.

The swathboard/grassboard is metal. I do have a wooden grassboard for a JD No. 4 mower.

I probably will not restore this mower, but I sometimes hook it up to a tractor and mow with it just for fun.

I would be interested to see your swathboard for McCormick-Deering mower, also pitman for the same. I am working on a Deering "New Ideal Giant" and need both pitman and swath board. E-mail is open; I tried to send you an e-mail via the link in your message, but I can never get one to go through on this computer -- firewall settings or some such nonsense.

Hope to do business with you!

-- Maine Fordson

Thanks; You have mail now, too.

I know what you meant when you said that you bought up horse-drawn implements before they went for scrap; nowadays I cringe every time I see a trailer go by with old farm iron on it that is destined for the blast furnaces in China, and that will been seen in this country again only when it is imported in a different form to be sold at Wal-mart... Once this stuff is gone, there'll never be any more of it made. I'd rather see horse-drawn equipment rusting away quietly in some Yuppie's flower bed than on its way to the scrapyard.

I have an old IHC potato digger, but it's not complete; think that Grandfather scavenged some pieces-parts off it years ago. They are a neat machine to watch, though, as are the IHC hay tedders. Sure would hate to get run over by one of those tedders - you'd have more holes poked in you than a sieve!

-- Maine Fordson