Help identifying a couple mowers

Old Roy · Feb 5, 2012

Trying to identify a couple mowers and what they may be worth as is found them while on a walk through the woods. there isn't a tractor large enough within 5 miles of these woods , but I know who owns them.

The first one may be a rear mount but I never seen this style of hook up .

This one has a Dearborne tag on it

This one looks to be a ford side mount .

Both look very fixable all rock guards look good , but the ford ? one has a cap that looks like it was beating against the bolt holding the show on and maybe someone tried to replace that bolt ???

JDseller · Feb 5, 2012

The first one is a Dearborn sickle mower. My maternal Grand father had one that he used on his TO-30. It was a miserable mower to install on the tractor. It was worn out so it was a real bear to use on a tractor without live PTO. You would plug it up: Shift to neutral and raise the mower, back up to unclog the sickle bar, then shift back to forward and MAYBE have it unplugged. Most of the time you might have to completely stop and clear it by hand. I hated that sickle mower so much that I never used another one until just a few years ago. I found a good NH 451 and it was night and day different.

The first one would have been made in the 1950s it was state of the art for those days. I have seen many sell for scrape price. It might bring $50-75 around here.

The second one is a newer Ford mower. It is a belly mounted one. It would not be worth much either unless you can find the mounting brackets and the rear drive. This one also have the yoke broken and re-welded. So it is not worth much either. Maybe just scrape. It might be a good parts machine for someone with a complete one.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 5, 2012

Old Roy if I remember right the Dearborne was made for Ford or by Ford. When I was in school they had a 8N and a 9N and the mounted equipment had Dearborne on serial tag.

Mike (WA) · Feb 5, 2012

The top one is missing a bunch of stuff. It was a 5 point hookup, and as someone else said, miserable to mount up. In addition to the standard 3 point stuff, you had to hook two arms to pins under the axle on each side. I see one of those arms, but not the other.

No one who ever had one would want another, I'd say they're both scrap.

barnE · Feb 5, 2012

Unclog is all I ever did on a sickle. You can have all of them. Farmall is what I had. Dave

Brian G. NY · Feb 5, 2012

The nice thing about that second one is the Very short connecting rod type of pitman arm which allowed you to mow 45 deg down a bank and full 90 deg vertical.
Neighbor farmer had one on his 8N and used it for trimming brush along the hedgerows.
Worked pretty good.

KF · Feb 6, 2012

I have one of these and it looks as if most of it is there. It was made for the N's and Ferguson's with three point lifts. It has a long break back arm that attached under the right axle housing and it needed two 8 inch extensions that were added to the length of the lift arm pickup rods to allow it to sit low enough to the ground to mow. Also, the third point on the tractor had a special adapter to mount the arm from the mower in. They work okay on those tractors. Someone may need it for parts. Expect no more than $40 or $50 for it in rough but repairable condition with most of the parts still there.

Help identifying a couple mowers

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