Posted by Buzzman72 on June 14, 2014 at 08:16:37 from (74.138.170.6):
In Reply to: Sickle Mower Teeth? posted by Bryce Frazier on June 13, 2014 at 15:15:42:
When I was a kid working in my family's Farmall garage, we carried the IH under-serrated knife sections, the smooth sections, guards, and ledger plates to replace bad ones on the guards. Back then guards were relatively cheap, so only the farmers who were real tightwads bought new ledger plates. We also stocked the Herschel triple-V end section, because it was popular with the local farmers.
Grand-dad had a sickle knife grinder with a V-shaped stone, and he could sharpen a mower knife in short order. He also had a section replacement tool that fit in the bench vise...set the knife, the rivets and the new section in place and pull the lever, and the rivet job was perfect every time.
But in the spring when we were really busy, sometimes Pap would put me to work with the McCormick section replacement tool, a sharp cold chisel, a thin punch to remove the chiseled-off rivets, and the punch with the concave end to "finish" the rivets. As a 10 or 12 year old kid, I learned a lot about what's now "antique" farm equipment repair methods.
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