Mowing first crop hay with a New Idea sickle mower! 

Enjoyed the comments added by your viewers as much as the video. FinkLandia looks alive and well. Stay safe, prosper, go with God.

You fellows need a medal, sickel mowers are hard work. I use to love them until I used a 489 Haybine which was my brothers. Bought myself a 469 Haybine , only use sickle mower to cut stubble now.

When I was really little back in the mid 70's I remember my grandpa running a mounted sicle mower on a Farmall C and my dad following him with a New Idea hay crimper on a Farmall M. Still have the M.

Great video! Love sickle bar mowers! Awesome restoration. I love the iconic green and orange of New Idea equipment. I have an old IH #9 Highgear that someone converted from a horse drawn mower to a trail mower. My original plan was to restore it to horse drawn, but I think I’ll look for another horse drawn one, and take the one I have and fix it back up (it’s in rough shape) into a trail mower as a backup. Thanks for sharing!

True story! Almost lost my finger with a sickle bar mower. I was hooking up to it. PTO was off of course. The bar was up in the vertical. I was rocking it back and forth. Trying to get the lift arm on the pin. Had a hold of one of those guard points. The mower was sitting on something that shifted! My finger slide too far back. That jolt some how made the blade move too! 😲 That quick jolt. Moved my hand and finger too far back!Thank God! It just cut the side of my finger at a angle. Took 4 stiches. Very scary thing!!!! We had a old shed, that had doors on it that we could lock. After that. We kept it in there lock up. In case some kids might play with it. THAT BLADE CAN MOVE UNEXPECTEDLY!!!! Even with the PTO off!!

It's a nice machine but it does one job Thank you Wilson for this video🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒

Good job Wilson, I like that mower.

Cool! I’ve got a sickle just like that one, got it for $150, doesn’t look the best but it cuts the hay! I run mine on a 1942 John Deere B doesn’t have hydraulics so I just use a come along winch. Yours looks amazing!

Wilson, I had one like that years ago. The one I had was equipped with a mechanical lift for the bar that was powered off the PTO. Also, you can get breathers that thread into a hose port on the cylinder to convert it to single acting. Nice work, looks great!

We had one back in the 70s had a crimper that pulled behind it worked good in alfalfa

nice job wilson enjoyed the video thanks

Nice 👍 video your cutting some great looking hay !

Thanks dad!! Now i am going to walk home...🤣 Thanks for the vid and God bless!!

Enjoyed the video! Good job Wilson!

Great work on the old machine!!

We have a sickle mower a New Idea exactly like this one but we use a Minneapolis Moline ZB to pull it. Plenty enough power.

Awesome video be careful messing with that lol I thought you were going to say hi to Momma Fink. 😂 looks hot out there. Thanks for sharing.

5:10 Rats nest. That is what we always called it whether there was a rat or not. Thanks for the video!

That's why sickle mowers were replaced with more modern mowers...years ago.

I replaced all my rock guards and blades need to know how much spacing between ledger plates and sections

I bought one of these recently how muck gap is there between ledger plates and the cutting sections?

Two way cylinder with a vent plug instead of a hose on the up side...

Why in the world did you go to such an antique machine? A disc mower is the only way to go now

Wilson, sickle mower they get bound down and it's of most of the time how the grass fall over the blades. It's like what Paul Case Farms rats nest and you need to find a wing nut to secure the sickle mower to the frame.

When it goes through a haybind the stems are crushed "crimped"... Does that additional step simply allow for packing more into the bales..?

What do you use to condition your hay after you use your sickle bar?

What happened to the IH mower conditioner?

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Where’s your haybine?

Just slow your speed down

For heaven’s sake keep your hand and fingers away from the sections, all it has to do is move and you are missing fingers.....

I mis hank