New Idea 30A Sicklebar Mower Repair - Final

Wrap up video where I show you the finished sicklebar, demonstrate it running, and cut some hay.

[@joescheller6680]

You will only need the lift for stones or dirt mounds other big objects. That kind of cool it lifts itself. I grew up on an old number 5 John deere mower i had to operate the lift with my foot with linkage from mower to tractor. It was a real challenge for a young boy of 7 and the tractor had hand clutch. Real challenge when approaching a rock and having to lift the bar with my foot on the left side hand. Clutch was on right side of tractor. Then to make things more challenging we had a rope running from dump rake to tractor and had to trip the rack at every tripping point when it was full to create a line for the baler or farmhand bucket we used to push it all in bucker piles then put in stacks around the field.

[@choreboy3906]

New Idea had some great equipment at reasonable costs- I believe they manufactured various equipment for different colors.

[@We_are_the_light]

Man that pitman is really workin hard.

[@randymaylowski2485]

Good video., looks nice👍. Couldn't you make skidshoes or skidplates under the sickle bar so it not cutting right down to the dirt/ right on the ground in general?

[@BeingMe23]

8:28 Was that a RAM Charger in the background?

[@ashleyflint3501]

Its easy to get rivets out, either grind the tops off ,then punch the rest out or put the knife back bone on a sharp edge of steel and belt the blade off the back bone with a hammer.

[@mathiggins4264]

I wanted to know more about the your sickle mower because I just bought one

[@joescheller6680]

I have mowed thousands of acres in my lift time with sickle mower it's all we had and used to put up Prarie hay and alfalfa when I was growing up. We .mowed raked in one operation then used a farmland loader with a bucker on it to push into small pile then put into large stacks. Put up many thousands of acres that way in my life time.

[@tobywalkersr.7077]

I just bought a 30A. Did you replace the cutter bar or just the knives?

[@bischoff6981]

I just replaced the knives. I did find a place that sells replacement bars w/ new teeth installed. I think they were somewhere near $300. If you are willing to put in the time and hammer muscle, it isn't that hard to replace the teeth. The hardest part was getting the old teeth and rivets out. That arbor press was really required to get those old rivets out. It took me longer than I expected to complete the whole process but I was happy with the result.

[@ronaldlee2376]

@@bischoff6981 I always used a ballpeen hammer & sharp cold chisel to remove the rivets holding the cycle sections. We did not have 4" grinders in 60's or 70's. I have 2 New Idea 7' cutter bars. My best one was made in 1940's & they both have original tires . I see yours has been replaced.

[@seansysig]

Noisiest sickle bar I ever heard!

[@joescheller6680]

They were all noisy especially running empty. That particular case maybe wore in the wear plates or hold down plates hard to decipher in picture.

[@dufus2273]

looks good

[@ricardocenteno375]

What’s that part number on that quick disconnect

[@joescheller6680]

The John Deere number 5 didn't have quick disconnect the splined end on the mower slipped on to tractor shaft. There was a notch machined all the way around the tractor shaft and the end on the mower slide on to a point where a bolt was in an off set hole it would keep the shaft from sliding off and it bolted down onto the tractor shaft with a tight fit.

[@sasquatch-7634]

I have a 30a that the pitman flywheel has snapped off. The shaft is broken. I will give this machine away.