What I've been playin with.

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Disabled guy that is my gopher around the farm takes no pay. He bought a small house with a couple of acres and needs a mower. I have this H I'm not using and he had a mower with no tractor.

A poor mans 3pt.

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 27, 2010

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The mother of necessity and all that.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Allan

 

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randallk

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• Aug 27, 2010

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That's a pretty neat deal...required some "thinkin". What height will the mower cut as is? Good job.

 

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Around 3 inches will be the lowest the way I have it set. He can raise the rear wheel to get higher or hold up the back with the cylinder.

8 inches will be the highest.

Ain't made for crossing ditches and too deep of low spots.

 

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Fergienewbee

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• Aug 27, 2010

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I envy you guys with mechanical apptitude. If I made it, it would be a cobbled up mess that wouldn't work.

Larry

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Pretty clever. That set-up would work well with a blade too.

 

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OldFarmTractor

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Need to be careful that when the cylinder is totally retracted, the pto length is right.

Otherwise, a fine idea.

 

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tomturkey

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• Aug 27, 2010

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As Hannibal Smith of the "A" team used to say " I love it when a plan comes together" or as my late father in law used to say "A poor man has poor ways" Which my wife changed for me " A poor man has creative ways" good thinkin Gary gobble

 

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Yep he's gonna put one on it in the winter for snow.

 

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Yep been measuring and measureing.

Just got back for getting one of those pto adapters that slips over without lengthing the shaft.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Very nice idea. Are the cylinder ports open when the rear wheel is touching the ground so it can float freely? Great when people work well together.

 

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RusselAZ

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Turn the cylinder around so the hoses don't have to flex.

In the 70's when I didn't have any money I took an old IHC drawbar mount mower frame and used a cultivator cylinder vertical on the drawbar pushing up on a chain. Made a pretty good grader blade.

 

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INCase

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Clever Idea.

We've used those PTO adapters too. Watch mowing real heavy stuff, twisted the one we had apart, they're pretty thin. That was on a 9N Ford so there wasn't alot of power twisting it.

 

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gene bender

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• Aug 27, 2010

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You must have seen the blade on my B i dont remember giving you the copyrite.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 27, 2010

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I know you're not finished yet but I think the biggest concern would be the angle of the PTO u-joint at the mower gearbox when lifted. From your picture it looks like the mower will pivot on the bottom 3 pt. mounts. Dave

 

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Proud new owner!

Angle is not a problem at all.

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Yep I did turn it around after that last photo.

It was easier to put on that way to size it all up.

 

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IaGary

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• Aug 27, 2010

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The top link on the mower can flex back about 4 inches on the mower if needed. If he goes over a hump the tail will come off the ground.

No differant than the center link on a regular 3 pt.

 

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keh

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Ingenious idea, that had never occurred to me. So the H has a small pto shaft?

Corn is looking good.

KEH

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Doesn't look bad at all. Should work fine for general cutting. Dave

 

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Ric Ks.

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• Aug 27, 2010

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Looks like it'll work, beware of ditches and stumps. May be a bear to remove and install very often. You now have a seasonal tractor, mower all summer, snow blade all winter.
Could you replace one of the bottom pins with a quick remove pin and keeper instead of bolted solid, then when time to remove you could pull one side and slide off the other. Or replace both sides and then you can pull both pins and drop it out. Just my 2 cents.

 

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NY 986

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• Aug 28, 2010

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You might want to find an over-running PTO coupler for the H.

 

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Eric Rylander

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• Aug 31, 2010

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My Case Sc had a setup like that for a blade on it when I got it, they cut the bottom links off the blade frame and narrowed them, then had pins welded to the sides of the drawbar bracket, and a bar running from the drawbar base to a ring where they used a come along to raise the blade.

Unfortunately the ring blocked the PTO- I have to re engineer the setup- just due to the high PTO on the Cases it makes it tough, no good place to put a top link of sorts.