Ford 501 Sickle Bar Compatibility

Pull the cap and stick your finger in there and feel around. There is a grease zerk there.

Mark

I have a Ford 501 sickle bar mower that I use on my 1973 Ford 2000 tractor. I'm not positive about this, but I think I'm right.

The Ford 501 Series of mowers comes in a bunch of different "models". The "model" numbers are comprised of a two digit number, a hyphen, and then a three digit number. I think that the different "models" are actually called attaching kits and are meant to accommodate mounting on different tractors. Depending on the tractor, the attachment points and attachment mechanisms are different, so different attaching kits provide for those differences.

I don't have any idea which attaching kit would be needed for your tractor, but you should be able to find a model number on your mower and ask a NH guy just what tractor it should attach to.

Like I said, I'm not positive about this scheme, but I think that's the way it works.

Tom in TN

Out of the bottom of the left side of the tube frame there is a rod with ball ends on it, with a clamp on the free end. This is what you are talking about? Often times at a sale, the clamp goes missing - good luck with that, the top part of the clamp costs as much as you paid for the whole mower.....

Anyhow, you hook up the mower on the ground, and you clamp this bar to the left 3pt arm. As the mower lifts up, this rod lifts up the far side of the mowerbar. You can adjust how high the bar lifts, and how much it drags on the ground a bit by sliding the clamp forward or rearward an inch or 2.

It is designed to fit on Ford N through 100 or 1000 series lower arm. I made it work on a 1720 one time, but with a different shape of the lower arm, it can get a little difficult.

You really kinda need it attached to the arm, clamped on.

--->Paul

It fit on the following tractors with Cat.1 3ph.

TE-20 Ferguson
TO-30 Ferguson
641 Ford 800 Ford
2000 Ford.

steveormary