Unusual Mower Mount
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Topic: Unusual Mower Mount
Posted By: OrangeKiwi(NZ)
Subject: Unusual Mower Mount
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 4:29pm
A mate sent this photo to me for a explanation but I couldn't help him. It's the only Allis in NZ which has a mid-mounted mower fitted to the left side of the tractor. I haven't seen the tractor in person but I consider the mower to be AC factory made. Has anybody else seen a similiar mower ? Considering the rotobaler and allcrops had their pickups mounted on the left, there may have been a place for mowers mounted this way. I'm struggling to find a reason. Any comments ?
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Posted By: D-17_Dave
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 4:43pm
| I'm not the expert on B's and C's and CA's I'd say that this is a normal side mount sickle mower used for mowing ditch banks or pond side. Also could be to just caut hay for cropping but mounted forward so you didn't have to look backwards all the time. Of course this is before Allis converted to the 3-point hitch which most of these mowers are now. |
Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 4:52pm
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I think it's normal too. If not it's probably a farmall cub mower or something like that adapted. I looked at my ads for B's and C's and the sickle for the B comes out of the right side, not the left. You might have been able to change it but I think i've only seen right mounted sickles. Could be wrong though. |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 4:57pm
| The one i have on my C is on the right hand side. B's and C's had the same mowers. Never seen a left hand side one before. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 5:05pm
| i've seen only one before, but don't remember what it was on...i'm thinking that D17 is right, think it was on a little red tractor! |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 5:36pm
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Nothing "normal" about it that I can see. You sure couldn't mow hay in the same field with anybody with a normal right side mower. I would like to know why anybody would build a left side sickle mower. Maybe it came from the British Isles, they drive on the wrong side of the road over there. LOL
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Posted By: morton(pa)
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 6:22pm
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I have to agree with CTucker, This is NOT anywhere near the normal B/C or No. 3 sickle bar mower made for the B's and C's. The mounting is completely different and the normal mowers have the bar on the right side (if sitting in the operators seat). That being said, I would love to get some more pictures of this thing and take a look at it in a little more detail. I havent seen anything like it. Somebody did make a good point about the all-crops. Could it have been used to mow smaller seed crops which were then picked up using a pick-up attachment? The left hand side mount mower would allow the sickle bar mower to operate ahead of the all-crop, unlike the normal mower, which would run head-on into the harvester. |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 6:28pm
| That's easy, yer upside down and backward down under! Makes prfect sense to me! LOL |
Posted By: Larry(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 6:35pm
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farmall cub ------------- '40 WC puller,'50 WD puller,'50 M puller '65 770 Ollie *ALLIS EXPRESS contact* I can explain it to you, BUT I cannot understand it for you!! |
Posted By: cougar766
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 7:06pm
| all the one I've seen mounted on Farmalls have right handed |
Posted By: OrangeKiwi(NZ)
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2011 at 8:44pm
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When I read the first 2 replies, I wondered whether the photo had printed but Charlie and Shameless restored my faith with their replies. Now I know there is not dozens like it in the U.S.
You may have something there Charlie when you mention it may be from the U.K. It's got the EB front axle but not the sprung pan seat from the English models. Since we drive on the left of the road, I was going to say it was used for mowing road verges, traveling in the same direction as the traffic. One drawback of that argument is that road verges were gravel and graded during that tractors working life (50's to 70's) Maybe the unit belonged to a local authority and there's a fleet number or name attached and we can identify that way. I'll have to wait until I view it. Thanks for your replies. |