Odd mower on Cub

grandpa Love · Nov 18, 2021

Bought this the other day. Strange
mower. Maybe for cutting cotton stalks?
Cub came from an old cotton farm.

Chain drive, no way to raise or lower
it. Bolts to final drives. Blades don't
swing like a bush hog blade.

kcm.MN · Nov 18, 2021

I'm just guessing here based on my pics collection, but I would say you are probably correct with that assumption.

Here's a tree farm mower that was posted a few years ago. Notice the belly mower. Could your cub have had a side attachment for trimming the trees? Maybe it's a repurposed machine? My files show this to be a "Christmas tree tractor".

Geo-TH,In · Nov 18, 2021

Maybe it was a plow, Blanton plow co, early version of a tiller.
Blade is bent.

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Nov 18, 2021

Looks like it could be a stalk cutter. The darnedest stalk cutter I ever saw in my life was on an 8 N Ford tractor. It was a 2 edged blade ~2 ft long mounted on the belt pulley attachment and installed with the blade pointing at the ground,no guard or no shield on it. Talk about dangerous, OSHA would have put someone under the jail house if they saw it.

There is a guy not far from here that has a 1956 red lowboy with a mid mounted flail mounted mower that is really neat. I have tried several times to buy it from him but he says no each time I try. Gene Davis

jal-SD · Nov 18, 2021

Saw one of those @ Red Power Round-up in
Ill last summer. If I remember correctly,
the owner said that it was one of two
known to still be around. I asked if he'd
been to Red Power that was in Alabama a
couple of years back. There was one there,
too. He said the one in Alabama wasn't
his, because he'd not been there. I guess
I've had the opportunity to see both that
are known to exist.

jal-SD · Nov 18, 2021

Saw one of those @ Red Power Round-up in Ill last summer. Actually it's built on a B. If I remember correctly, the owner said that it was one of two known to still be around. I asked if he'd been to Red Power that was in Alabama a couple of years back. There was one there, too. He said the one in Alabama wasn't his, because he'd not been there. I guess I've had the opportunity to see both that are known to exist.

WESnIL · Nov 18, 2021

Kcm.MN, One of those mowers sold on the Mecum Auction last week for $5,000. The one in your posting seems to have been modified as, in my memory, the original
versions were equipped with spray nozzles on the A frame. Farmall A, B, or C tractors were used as the starting point. Apparently only 2 or 3 of the seven
originally made are still known to be in existence. Some of the early Super C, 100, 130, and 140 tractors were also modified and equipped with a mast on the rear
and used as forklifts in orchards, etc. in agricultural applications. I know of one of those still operating in IN.

kcm.MN · Nov 18, 2021

Wes, WOW!, Thanks for the info. Am adding that to my files now.

DoubleO7 · Nov 18, 2021

The mower on that restored A has a much beefier gear box.
But might be a different model made for the same purpose and company.

I would say the one grandpa love has is a light duty use mower.

A 12 hp cub turning four blades via that little gear box maybe is for chopping down tobacco plants at end of season?
Or some other row crop that is easy to chop up.

DeltaRed · Nov 18, 2021

I would say you are correct in your assumption that it is a cotton stalk chopper.I'll bet it would work on corn stalks too.

fixerupper · Nov 18, 2021

(quoted from post at 07:11:54 11/18/21) Looks like it could be a stalk cutter. The darnedest stalk cutter I ever saw in my life was on an 8 N Ford tractor. It was a 2 edged blade ~2 ft long mounted on the belt pulley attachment and installed with the blade pointing at the ground,no guard or no shield on it. Talk about dangerous, OSHA would have put someone under the jail house if they saw it.

There is a guy not far from here that has a 1956 red lowboy with a mid mounted flail mounted mower that is really neat. I have tried several times to buy it from him but he says no each time I try. Gene Davis

Gene I have seen a pull behind two row stalk chopper that has the vertical blades like that. It was well shielded though. Used to see a few of them around my neck of the woods in Iowa.

Janicholson · Nov 18, 2021

Tobacco that I have worked were 2 at the base and very fibrous. Not for that mower. Jim

Brown Dirt Cowboy · Nov 18, 2021

(quoted from post at 08:20:30 11/18/21) Kcm.MN, One of those mowers sold on the Mecum Auction last week for $5,000. The one in your posting seems to have been modified as, in my memory, the original
versions were equipped with spray nozzles on the A frame. Farmall A, B, or C tractors were used as the starting point. Apparently only 2 or 3 of the seven
originally made are still known to be in existence. Some of the early Super C, 100, 130, and 140 tractors were also modified and equipped with a mast on the rear
and used as forklifts in orchards, etc. in agricultural applications. I know of one of those still operating in IN.

ears ago {2006} I went to the auction at Grammer's Orchard in Murphysboro, Il and there was 2 forklifts there that were built using the Farmall B tractor. The only thing I bought was the 1964 Emeryville road tractor which I still have.

This post was edited by Brown Dirt Cowboy on 11/18/2021 at 11:33 am.

DoubleO7 · Nov 18, 2021

(quoted from post at 16:30:03 11/18/21) Tobacco that I have worked were 2 at the base and very fibrous. Not for that mower. Jim

Okay, I had no idea how stout or stringy tobacco plant might be.
Anyways, with four blades being turned by 12hp, whatever it was intended to mow can't be too tough and fiberous..
It looks like it can be set from a few inches to maybe a foot high cut.

Before harvest did they use to cut off the above ground vegetation on peanuts or potatoes and any other root veggie before digging??

crsutton81 · Nov 18, 2021

X 2 Jim. A tobacco stalk would tear that mower and tractor up in a hurry. If it had a saw blade on it then it'd probably work. Cotton and corn is typically planted on a raised bed here around home. That would be my opinion of what it was designed to mow. The height would be about right by the time the tractor settles into row middles of a bedded row.

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