Things that used to be common place or......

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

Specifically things that seemed to be readily available a decade or more ago but seem to have vanished in recent years. Alternatively, things you would have thought were long gone but can find yet.

I was thinking for the hay novice on implement alley that he could find a 7 foot mower conditioner to suit his needs but I can't think on an area basis where to tell somebody to find such a machine currently. I would have an easier time looking for a 100 dollar bill that blew out of a car that would land next to my mail box.

On the other end of the spectrum I still see at least one long table type forage blower for sale or at auction. I would have thought that those would be long gone but there must be a few stowed away in barns here and there.

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 5, 2017

Straight disc mowers have replaced that role here.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 5, 2017

Sickle bar mowers and mower/conditioners show up at auctions in my area frequently.

rustyfarmall · Jul 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 08:43:16 07/05/17) Sickle bar mowers and mower/conditioners show up at auctions in my area frequently.

You might find a sickle bar mower, but where can a guy find new sections?

Traditional Farmer · Jul 5, 2017

Webb's Sickle Service,also many of the mower conditioner sections fit the sickle bars.Interestingly a section from a JD haybine will fit an AC mower but not a JD 350 mower.

pburg · Jul 5, 2017

In years gone by I have gone to lots of farm auctions, and have bought lots
of stuff. Lots of these items have come by the bucket, or by the box----you
get the picture. Among this stuff is a coffee can full of new sickle sections.
By now they are rusty, obviously. Various kinds, but I have no idea what they'd
fit. Same for various kinds of rivets. If someone is interested in, or has a need
for these, send me an email. They could be had cheap. I live in eastern NE. I also have a few rock guards with fair condition sickle sections----used, of course.

dhermesc · Jul 5, 2017

I buy my new sections and rivets at Tractor Supply and Orschelns they also have a good supply of rock guards. Actually the typical "wear" parts for sickle mower are pretty easy to find.

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

But how many mower-conditioners that YOU see are seven foot cut? Yes, I can find 9 foot cut mower conditioners by the dozen if sickle cut and at least a handful that are disc cut. Now just plain 7 foot sickle bar mower, no conditioner, are out there but might take a little doing to find one locally.

rrlund · Jul 5, 2017

Where can you get a milk can re tinned?

Leroy · Jul 5, 2017

The only sections for a mower that you should have trouble finding are the 2" sections for an Oliver horse drawn mower. All others are very easy to find as are most parts for any mower except a balanced head. For McCormick all the cutter parts are the same for a hundred years, Deere not that long as they were not making a mower that far back, Not sure of year Deere started to make a mower under their name but they bought out Dain to get the hay line in the 1920's while McCormick was building mowers in1895 that uses the same section as the last mower built.

Leroy · Jul 5, 2017

Harder to find a disk mower that the bar mower here.

Leroy · Jul 5, 2017

Would any of those sections or rock guards be the 2" wide size and not the normal 3". That 2" is not made for years and a few horse drawn mowers used them.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 5, 2017

Right many NH,Hesston and JD 7ft at sales and a lot of JD 350 and NH 451 mowers,also a few MF,AC and IH sickle bars show up.I have around 20 AC sickle bar mowers,2 JD 350 and 2 NH 456.

4520BW · Jul 5, 2017

we had a 477 new Holland haybine and I think the guy was from east side of Ohio that bought it. Last fall I found 3 complete sickle bars that I could not give away so I scraped them. Somewhere I have a box of section, guards and other parts for that thing.

Dopp Creek · Jul 5, 2017

I was at the NH dealer the other day standing next to a new 7' sickle bar haybine. I asked the guy when the last time he sold one was and he said they have sold FOUR this year. Folks moving on to horse property find their 50-75 hp tractors can't (or don't want to)run a disc mower so they buy the haybine.
I watch the used market and one or two 7' machines pop up for sale each year. 9' much more common. I have a Hesston 1090 that does what I want it to.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jul 5, 2017

Thirty years ago Dad was hooked up with a dealer in Lancaster PA that would get lots of seven ft NH haybines out of New York. They probably handled a semi load a month and if you stack them you can haul them three high. I always felt the one in the middle got the worst end of the deal but they would throw car tires in for cushion.We also bought a good many Deere utility tractors and 2520's from New York as well. Tom

kcm.MN · Jul 5, 2017

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Good and decent neighbors. ....Ok, ok, so maybe I got spoiled as a kid, but we had some good neighbors in the old days.

flying belgian · Jul 5, 2017

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LAA · Jul 5, 2017

Funny you should ask, just got a commercial mixer back from this outfit a month or so ago, they did a beautiful job.

http://www.metalcoatingcompany.com/retinning.html

jeffcat · Jul 5, 2017

Gravely also had a finish sickle bar mower that used 2 inch sections. I have one. Is 36 inches and was made to mow rough lawns or road side edges of hay fields.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 5, 2017

I don't know if it's still there- a few years back, I recall seeing a very nice AC long table blower, w/engine, tucked away on the corner of a friend's barn floor. He passed away a couple years back, so family may have parted with it. When I met him in the 70's, he had long since quit milking cows, so the blower was very nice.

olgentdc · Jul 5, 2017

massey 300 combines are scarce ,,i just bought one at auction ,m,i knew about for the last 10 yrs , just like starting up a 30 yr old time capsule ,.,.runs great ,

sammydwm · Jul 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 16:47:09 07/05/17)

(quoted from post at 08:43:16 07/05/17) Sickle bar mowers and mower/conditioners show up at auctions in my area frequently.

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You might find a sickle bar mower, but where can a guy find new sections?

I get mine at Fleet Farm.

Bill VA · Jul 5, 2017

I was talking to a New Holland dealer earlier this spring and they had a new model 472 - 7ft haybine as well as a 9ft model 488. They had several in crates too. He said in their area, folks that grew alfalfa still liked/believed alfalfa did better with a sickle than a disc mower blade.

We have a pop-up camper, bought it new in 1992 and still have it. One of the considerations for a pop-up vs a full size camper at the time was - the initial camper expense and the realization that you are forever tied to the expense of a larger tow vehicle. I'm glad we got the pop-up.

Same with haybines vs discbines (which kind of gets lost in most posts). Without a doubt, a sickle haybine will deliver the mail. I get it a discbine is superior, but more expensive and you are tied to a larger tractor and the expense of it. I could run my Hesston 1110 with my MF50 diesel, zero hp issues. If the tractor broke in half, I could toss it and find another $3,000 or less tractor to run the haybine. That ain't going to happen with the 70+ hp tractors.

YMMV

Bill VA · Jul 5, 2017

In my neck of the woods, the haybines are all 7ft, including my Hesston 1110. There might be a 9ft International on one farm, but I've never seen it up close. Small fields, narrow roads, 7ft haybines.

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

That is more ambition than nearly all the horse people have around these parts. When I worked for Central Tractor years ago those people would try to beat you out of a penny and complain that they had to spend an additional penny (X 1000) for a distributor cap for their 8N. They only seemed to spend big on pickup trucks and barns. I had more than one ask if I knew where they could find a CHEAP manure spreader. I would have never told them if I did know.

Interesting that you go to a different part of the country and the circumstances change greatly.

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

We had one many years ago and it was fun to run. I suppose if I ever won the lottery big time I would like to find another one but with the Perkins instead of the Chrysler slant 6.

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

The last Sennett sale I was at featured two NH silage wagons and a NH table blower that looked like they were bought in 1965 and then stored away until several years ago. Beautiful equipment. Something that I would not mind collecting before this stuff all disappears for good.

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

I should have specified used as far as the haybine goes. I am glad people are opening the topic to anything that seems to have disappeared in recent times or one appears when you might think that they had disappeared forever.

NY 986 · Jul 5, 2017

I wish that I knew. Dad loaned the last two out he had a number of years ago and the person who borrowed them subsequently can not remember what he did with them. I don't believe that story. He just does not want to return them and knows dad will not push the issue.

Mike(NEOhio) · Jul 5, 2017

Two of my neighbors bought new NH 7 footers in recent years. I have a 1207 and found another for parts last spring. I put my stuff inside for the winter and I don't have a doorway I could get a 9 through

olgentdc · Jul 5, 2017

i have a 300 with perkins and 3 slant 6 gassers and the 750 , mite say i am combine poor ,,..

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