Looking for some help to identify this John Deere

KingGampo · Jul 5, 2016

Hello, can anyone tell me what this is? Maybe what its used for and if it has any value to sell privately?

KingGampo · Jul 5, 2016

The photos didnt upload

IndianaSteve · Jul 5, 2016

yes I don't see anything

KingGampo · Jul 5, 2016

Sorry to waste anyones time. My photos just wont upload. I dont get it, theyre jpg if anyone has any other ideas im all ears. Not real computer savvy obviously.

RBoots · Jul 5, 2016

You may have to ask the moderator for
permission to post photos the first time.
That way they know you're not a
scammer/spammed

Ross

KingGampo · Jul 5, 2016

So to do that do i click on "report to moderator"?

Patsdeere · Jul 5, 2016

No email them at support @ytmag.com

KingGampo · Jul 5, 2016

Ok will do thanks

KingGampo · Jul 6, 2016

I figured out the pictures i think. Thanks for your help everyone, now if someone could just tell me what it is and if its valuable

paul · Jul 6, 2016

Good lawn art. Was a good horse drawn suckle mower in its day, yours looks good enough to use, but would need to find the right person for
that.

Paul

John B. · Jul 6, 2016

Paul meant to say it's a "Sickle Mower" not Suckle Mower. It was used to cut hay. Be careful when moving it or lowering the sickle bar.
It can cut your fingers off if you get them in between the sickle guards/points. The mower doesn't have to be moving for this to happen.
Just lowering the sickle bar causes the sickle to slide inside the bar. It'll cut more than one finger off at at time.

When I was in high school there was a boy 2 years behind me. He had all his fingers on each hand except his thumbs cut off from one of
these sickles. He was just 4 years old when it happened. This is why I say be careful. Always grab the sickle bar from the very end and
fingers away from the guards.

It took two good horses to pull one of those thru the alfalfa and clover fields years ago. Since the sickle had to recipricate very fast
the gearing had to have a very high gear ratio. This made the mower very hard to pull especially thru thick hay. This is also why the
mower is made mainly of cast iron parts. It had to be heavy so the wheels would get good traction due to the gearing of the machine. If
the machine wasn't heavy the wheels would just slide over the ground surface.

Kickinbull · Jul 6, 2016

Im 59 years old. I remember riding on of these when I was a kid. Ours had a tongue so it could hook to a
motorized machine. I say that because when my folks bought their place it came with a doodlebug.A cut down
"32" Chevy truck. My dad would drive and I would ride the mower. And my job was to lift it on the corner. Made
it less of a pain to plug. I also remember walking miles in the furrow behind the doodlebug when dad plowed
with a one bottom plow.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 6, 2016

Confession; Years ago, when I quit my job, and started farming, and was penniless, I scrapped one just like that. Later I wished I hadn't.

IaLeo · Jul 6, 2016

Don't know if JD numbered that model in a series, but Dad had a #3 model and it's gear drive (left hand wheel) was in enclosed oil bath. I assume the photo was an earlier model. Dad's was new in 1937. I admired the "the work of the art of iron casting" in the design....weight was needed to ground drive the sickle, very little "joinery" like riveting...whole frame was cast...and it did take to big greys to pull that thing. Operator's view was excellent (of course downwind of horse rears), noise was snickety, hoofs clomping, smell of new mown alfalfa,timothy and clover. Leo

James Howell · Jul 6, 2016

"<font color="#6699ff">[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]can anyone tell me what this is?[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]</font>"

That is a John Deere No. 1 Regular or No. 2 Big High Lift horse drawn sickle mower.

Take a look at the photos below.

Take a look at the diagram below.

Note the main frame with the embossed letters [b:654c4848f0]JOHN DEERE No. 1[/b:654c4848f0]

Check the embossed letters on the main frame of your mower to determine the model number.

"<font color="#6699ff">[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]Maybe what its used for and if it has any value to sell privately?[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]</font>"

These <a href="https://youtu.be/mVBV4n37TOY">horse drawn sickle mowers were used to cut hay</a>.

Its value will be determined by potential buyers in your geographical location.

Hope this helps.

showcrop · Jul 6, 2016

Secure the seat better or it will be gone.

farmerwithmutt · Jul 6, 2016

If you got Amish around there looking for
them . I not sure what number my neighbor
has but his got to close to a stump and
broke a casting. Google the mower number
and see what others sell for.

coshoo · Jul 6, 2016

Its doing what it does best right now, being yard art. Lots of them still around, not much of a market for them. Just leave it there, and enjoy it.

Leroy · Jul 6, 2016

Cannot see your pictures very well. That is what is called an open gear model and the Amish I work with and buy for only want a Big 4 Deere or McCormick mower No 7 or No 9, nothing else so value for something like what you have would only be lawn art. Now other segements of Amish will use other older models but repair parts for all the rest except those 3 models are hard or inpossible to get. Now one of the 3 models I mentioned field ready from dealer but no paint will retail im the $1,500 range. And it is common to break a frame and it being welded.

KingGampo · Jul 6, 2016

Hey thank you so much everyone for all your information, its very interesting learning about stuff like this. Im not sure if i would sell it or not. Especially if its not work much. Like one of you said, "it's cool lawn art". Thanks again everone.

showcrop · Jul 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 04:14:51 07/06/16) Confession; Years ago, when I quit my job, and started farming, and was penniless, I scrapped one just like that. Later I wished I hadn't.

Yeah, but you got 15 times return on that money, right?

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