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I just acquired a IH 1000 sickle mower. After 1 hour of mowing it seems mostly functional but it certainly has seen some hard life. Any way to estimate the age of this implement? I can not find any kind of tag on it. How about determining what parts may be missing or modified? Is there a...

Here is my loader:

I have a Westendorf TA26 loader in my JD 5055. Today when I was swapping from bucket to fork lift I noticed a weird issue: The cylinders that dip the bucket operate one at the time, left first then right. With attachment on the FEL seems to work fine with the only exception that the mechanical...