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| I have an old JD #5 sickle bar mower sitting on my property that I want to try to restore but I know nothing about them. Anyone know of a web site that will give me parts ID's, fix-it info, general maintenance. I think most of the parts are there except the wooden pitman(?). That is the breakaway piece correct? Don't even know if this is worth the restore effort. I can turn the pto shaft by hand, but I don't know if the parts in the sickle section work, the whole thing looks awful rusty.
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| Thirty years ago, when I was still helping my great-uncle on the farm, all of the ditches were mowed with a JD #5 on back of a Farmall H. At that time, all the parts we needed (sickle sections, guards, ledger plates) were available at the John Deere dealership (uncle didn't believe in aftermarket places like Shoup). I still see #5's come up on farm auctions around here (east-central Nebraska). Haven't been to a sale in a while, don't know how well they sell. Personally, I don't think I'd invest a whole lot into getting one going; around here, at least, I could probably find a useable one without much effort.
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| A lot of the dealer stuff is way expensive. Like my brother in law said you're paying for the green. I've only got 10$ into the thing so I'll probably go the auction route, internet or at farm site, for manual and parts.
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The Number Five is THE gold standard for sickle bar mowers.
Even the new ones you buy today are cheap knock-offs compared to the old Number Five. It was a sound, robust, simple and well made sickle bar mower and why there are so many of them still around today. In my opinion it would be worth rebuilding.
Fortunately, because the Number Five is the Gold Standard in which just about every sickle bar mower was copied from since its conception, you can buy parts for them almost anywhere. I am pretty sure the parts found at Tractor Supply would fit that implement.
Its kind of amazing what you can rebuild. I just rebuilt a 1950's vintage Bushhog Brand Bushog, and a 1953 Dearborn Plow, all from parts taken off the shelf at tractor supply and my equipment dealer. And because of their vintage, they are far more robust then the lightly fabricated equipment of today.
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I was thinking about this yesterday and thought I would add, that not only is the #5 a great implement, the sickle bar mower is far superior to the bushog in cutting grass.
For one, the sickle bar mower offsets the tractor, so that you do not crush your grass with the wheels first. With a bushog, you often crush the grass down, then when the mower passes overhead, it does not cut that grass, only to spring up in the next day or so, making for a lousy looking field. By offsetting the tractor, you can also cut grass where where you could not put your tractor, like in the ditches of roads, etc!
But the greatest feature is, it cuts the grass and lays the grass sown without disturbing the seeds. If you bushog a field after the grass has matured and seeded out, you end up spreading those seeds all over the farm due to wind drift. You don't get that with a sickle bar mower though!! It makes a huge difference when you have problem weeds you don't want spread!
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Do you have the metal pieces that calm onto the JD #5 sickle bar mower? If so I can help!!!
Thank You,
Erica
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| Don't know if all the parts are there Erica. I found a web site to order an operators manual for 25$. I'm hoping that will help alot. I'll try to figure out how to attach some photos to this thread so you can see it. Or shoot me a PM, then I can attach the photos in a return e-mail. Took a half hour trying to attach a photo, but it will not let me. If I'm reading the info right you can only upload 512KB but the pic is 2.4 MB.
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