Guess the model number

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Pooh_Bear

Pooh_Bear

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Dunlap TN 25 miles north of Chattanooga
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Early 1949 Ford 8N
I just aquired a Dearborn Sickle Bar Mower. 6 foot sickle bar.
I can read the serial number. 1299 or I299
That first number could be an I (eye) or a 1 (one).

I'm having trouble reading the model number.
It could be any one of these combinations:
14-67 or 14-17 or 14-b7 or
I4-67 or I4-17 or I4-b7
That first number could be an I (eye) or a 1 (one).
That 3rd number could be 6, b, or 1 (one).

Anyone want to take a guess at what I have.

How old is it.
If I should need parts for it are they available.
It needs new blades real bad. Front half of the PTO shaft is missing.
Looks like it just hooks up to the 3 point hitch on the tractor.
Not sure if it needs any other special brackets or anything.
Like where does the big spring on the cable hook to.

Except for the rusty knives and the missing PTO shaft
it looks like I could just hook it up and run it like it is.
I can't tell that anything is missing. Needs greased.
This thing sure does have a BUNCH of grease zerks on it.

I'm sure I will have lots of questions about this thing.
I'll try to get pictures of it tomorrow.

Thanks for any help y'all can give me.

Pooh Bear
 
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I just aquired a Dearborn Sickle Bar Mower. 6 foot sickle bar.
I can read the serial number. 1299 or I299
That first number could be an I (eye) or a 1 (one).

I'm having trouble reading the model number.
It could be any one of these combinations:
14-67 or 14-17 or 14-b7 or
I4-67 or I4-17 or I4-b7
That first number could be an I (eye) or a 1 (one).
That 3rd number could be 6, b, or 1 (one).

Anyone want to take a guess at what I have.

How old is it.
If I should need parts for it are they available.
It needs new blades real bad. Front half of the PTO shaft is missing.
Looks like it just hooks up to the 3 point hitch on the tractor.
Not sure if it needs any other special brackets or anything.
Like where does the big spring on the cable hook to.

Except for the rusty knives and the missing PTO shaft
it looks like I could just hook it up and run it like it is.
I can't tell that anything is missing. Needs greased.
This thing sure does have a BUNCH of grease zerks on it.

I'm sure I will have lots of questions about this thing.
I'll try to get pictures of it tomorrow.

Thanks for any help y'all can give me.

Pooh Bear
 
   / Guess the model number #3  
I'm no expert, but it sounds like either a Ford 501 or 515. I have a large portion of a 515 (missing a couple of key parts /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif)- its model number is 14-278 and the serial is 10318.

Try this - clean up the ID plate as best as you can, then take a black Sharpie marker and color the whole plate, then take a paper towel and wipe off the plate...see if it makes the numbers stand out any better. at least it worked on mine!

On the 515, there are several "springs on cables"...one goes from the gear head across to the 3ph hoop, another goes from the hoop down to the drawbar, and a 3rd goes back to the 3ph arm on the right side.

I have the book for the 515, if it turns out to be that. The teeth seem to be available, and other parts are supposedly still carried by NH, but at great cost.

post up some pics!

-mark-
 
   / Guess the model number #4  
I'm no expert, but it sounds like either a Ford 501 or 515. I have a large portion of a 515 (missing a couple of key parts /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif)- its model number is 14-278 and the serial is 10318.

Try this - clean up the ID plate as best as you can, then take a black Sharpie marker and color the whole plate, then take a paper towel and wipe off the plate...see if it makes the numbers stand out any better. at least it worked on mine!

On the 515, there are several "springs on cables"...one goes from the gear head across to the 3ph hoop, another goes from the hoop down to the drawbar, and a 3rd goes back to the 3ph arm on the right side.

I have the book for the 515, if it turns out to be that. The teeth seem to be available, and other parts are supposedly still carried by NH, but at great cost.

post up some pics!

-mark-
 
   / Guess the model number #7  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It looks just like this one )</font>

I don't know anything about your mower, but wouldn't it be nice to have such detailed instructions for every attachment we buy nowadays. I would almost settle for a tractor manual that nice.
 
   / Guess the model number #8  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It looks just like this one )</font>

I don't know anything about your mower, but wouldn't it be nice to have such detailed instructions for every attachment we buy nowadays. I would almost settle for a tractor manual that nice.
 
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