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Sickle Blade Anvil Help

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Mike

09-08-2000 09:02:18




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I got a sickle mower and with it an anvil made for changing the sections. It is made by Olsen Manufacturing who I called and they have no idea what it is as things have probably changed there in the last 50 years since it was made. Can anyone help me with directions on how to use this? There are various slots and posts and insets on it.




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Tim W

09-09-2000 03:01:54




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 Re: Sickle Blade Anvil Help in reply to Mike, 09-08-2000 09:02:18  
Mike, a very useful tool for the older sickle bar mower. in addition to being used for section removal and replacement it is a great tool for ledger plate removal and replacement. I misplaced mine years ago and miss it , however, as the other post said , you can use a section of railroad rail, regulal anvil, vise, etc.



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dwm

09-08-2000 11:07:05




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 Re: Sickle Blade Anvil Help in reply to Mike, 09-08-2000 09:02:18  
Mike,
I don't know what your anvil looks like, but I can tell you about changing sections on a sickle bar as I've seen it done the way my father would do it on the old John Deere # 5. After pulling out the knife, you can easily remove sections. The back, wide edge of the section extended beyond the bar. Therefore you could turn the point of the sections down, place the lip of the bar on the edge of an anvil (he used a piece of railroad iron for an anvil), and go along with a hammer hitting the back of the section at the rivet and one blow would sheer the rivet. You could clean a knife in a minute or two.
To replace the sections, you also used the top, flat part of the anvil as a backstop to smash the rivets on new sections. It didn't take long and you were going again with a good, sharp knife.
In later years, I know some knives (combines) were made with the back of the section flush with the bar. The rivet tool that came along to drive out old rivets and smash new ones then became handy. There may have been some conspiracy here.
It sounds like you have an anvil supplied with the machine to facilitate changing sections the old-fashioned way.

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