Nice old tractor,great job showing and telling 1950 wow. I have a1970 Ford 801 good old tractor. I am resorting it’s to nice to not fix it up love farming,I live here East Tennessee beside the big hills. Thanks again for showing telling see ya next time see ya bye.
Great job showing and telling,and oiling that sickle bar mower. Keep up the good work cutting that grass thanks for showing learning I am see ya next time see ya bye.
Great video Dan, thank you! I only wish II followed your instructions. I have refurbished a 732 mower coupled with an MF135. It has a metal pitman arm thankfully. Having got all parts in working order. I moved up to the 10 acre field looking forward to some hay making. What I didn't resalise was that in all the bumping along the field, my knife blade dropped out as the pitman arm went to its lower position. Dropping the cutting arm bent the knife blade. It was a complete mess and I had to dismantle the thing in the field. I may have a missing pitman arm latch for transportation. However if I had followed your advice I would have been able to make hay! Such a stupid mistake :-(((. Now I always transport without the knife-bar in place. A good lesson learned the hard way!
Great video Dan. Always interesting. I really don't see the necessity for taking out the knife for transport. Once you have guard on the bar, there's no way to cut off your finger. I would like to see one properly set up, knocking a meadow for hay on a nice summer day. It great to catch a glimpse of these machines at work.
As a young kid in the late fifties, early sixties, l remember this bit of kit- it was great to watch this tractor circulating round the field, great memories!
Another great Vintage Thursday, Dan - thank you. Brought back lots of memories of my Dad on a 35 with a finger mower. Very peaceful shots of you going up and down, with the engine purring away. I love the smell of TVO. Dad also used an Allen Sythe, same principal, but a lot more walking!
Good video, brings back memories. There's a 732 mower at home bought new by my grandfather in 1965, still have the original invoice and instruction book. When I started out my contracting career many moons ago I used it for topping behind a multi-power 135, then later at home behind a TVO 20 for recreational purposes. Still completely original and intact but hasn't been used for the best part of 20 years.
Nice video I have a Massey Ferguson 732 mower and it is nice to see what changed from the one for the 35 to the one for the 135 it looks like they simplified it over the years as there is some things I don’t have on mine it’s nice to see these old mowers going there aren’t much working examples out there because if they have been sitting it can be a job to get them going again
My gramps and uncle had one just like that one you have. My first memories of the ripper as we call it up in Scotland was when I was a boy my uncle was cutting hay with it on a 880 David Brown. It was a fair sight and if the crop was to heavy it blocked and the you had to stop and sort it out. Great video Dan your videos (with the help of your mum) are brilliant keep them coming
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Good video Dan 👍 cut a lot o acres o hay with one of them 🙄 always carried spare knives with u an always sharpened all the sections before heading to the field each day 👍
Another good one Dan but if I'd have known you had so little grass you could have come up to Derbyshire to do round one of the fields here as at the moment I have broken the drive link that goes beneath my little Massey Harris to my mid mounted finger bar mower. It is usually perfect for getting close to the walls but I need to make up another link. If anyone is interested to see me playing on it I have a few little bits on my channel under finger mower. Did not know that about stopping the tractor on petrol as mine is straight petrol but my dad did say that to start his fordson it has to start on petrol before switching to tvo so that would make sense. Best regards from the Peak District.
When mowing hay, the “grass Board” that bolted on to the outer end of the bar, was most important to use. It caused the falling meadow grass to lie such that a clearance of about a foot was maintained between the swath and the growing grass. This one foot width was important when cutting the next swath. An angled 2” diameter length of wood, formed an important component of the “grass board”. In some countries, these were known as syckle.bar mower. They are still useful for cutting high grass and weeds under fence wire and will not damage wooden posts.
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Thanks Dan, Brings back a lot of memories as my dad used to use one identical to that back in the 1960's. They used it to cut all the silage on the 100 cow dairy farm he worked on in Dumfriesshire. It was a slow process and eventally they replaced it with a New Holland fail mower which was much faster with virtually no blockages.
Hi there Dan, great work on the channel, thumbs up from Tasmania. Would love to see you doing mouldboard ploughing with the 35, I could only assume that video is just round the corner.
Brill vintage day vid Dan we had a 35 that had them brackets on the inside of the mudguards it had a od looking cab that fitted onto them when you put the thing on you had be careful as it would trap your fingers between the steering wheel and the cab and if you wanted to lift the bonnet the cab would also tilt on them brackets have you seen one of them strange looking cabs Dan
@@CowfarmerDan the cabs were built by Clydebuilt Products from paisley one sold on Ebay if you put in 174364811356 and then go on completed listings you will see the exact cab that was once on your tractor Dan
Not sure if mower misses a bar out right side that will support long grass when it has been cut and falls to the ground,sort of carries it a little to the left making room for next rounds tractorwheel.noticed that it still has a bar on left side that will support the grass to the right and away from machine.Sometimes the bar is attached with a coil spring on the board which sometimes were made of wood,looks like yours is made of steel.Thank you.
20 yrs ago when I was a kid our neighbour burrowed a similar unit off of another neighbour. Cost him he's life unfortunately, bleed to death in the field. Not sure what he did wrong but take care Dan.
Nicely done Dan. My mate keeps saying he wants to use one on the front of his 411 unimog...I keep telling him buy a drum mower 😂. Have you seen the modern finger bar mowers? Seem to have a few in Europe, they have 2 moving knifes and drive fairly quick!
That knife is really past it"s best it is too worn shown by how pointed it is therefore about a1/3rd of it effective cutting capacity has vanished in sharpening. New sections required I should say!
Most important. you mentioned safety and one of the previous posters mentioned about how a guy chopped his hand and bled out in the field,, Another really important NO,NO is NOT having dogs out in the field or anywhere near a finger mower. Dogs and finger mowers don't get along and if the dog interacts with the mower it can be a very emotional event. TVO was a beautiful smell like 303 gun oil , Some pipe tobaccos and expensive perfume on a woman. The mower needs a swath board.
