PHOTO - old fashioned mowing machine

Hi Gang;
Nicely restored Ferguson TE-20 (Tractor England)
with mid mounted finger-bar mower. Not many of these mid mounted type of mowers survived into preservation.
Tractor was made with gasoline, gasoline & vapourising oil, or diesel engines.
The "Fergi" was the biggest selling tractor in England in the late 1940's & early 1950's. Your equivalent in popularity would have been the Ford 8N I guess.
Cheers David

Years ago in our area this type of mower was used as a highway right-of-way mowers, as they had a short connecting rod rather that a long pitman and would mow along a bank with the bar in almost a vertical position.

I had a Dearborn (very similar to this picture) on an 8N, that mower was often referred to as a Detroit Shaker as it would sometime give that little old tractor a good shaking. It was a 6’ and a great fence line & bank mower. I also mowed some hay with it.

I was curious if the coil on this tractor was mounted vertically beside the distributor or horizontally above the starter. Just Curious,

Let's go Mountaineers,

Aaron

What actually does the cutting? looks like a sickle bar mower other than the box around the cutter bar.

John