International 1000 Sickle Mower Bar Repaired | Engels Coach Shop
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2021
- This International 1000 sickle mower has a broken 9 foot bar that had been repaired before, but did not hold. Being a carriage and wagon builder I see many faulty repairs, breaks and cobble jobs that I get to try to redo correctly. This is a mower I picked up for my personal use, if I'm able to repair it to functionality again. Building and restoring horse drawn vehicles involves many trades, of which welding and straightening out twisted iron is only one. Thanks for following along!
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Nothing is ever old, broken and useless, when all it needs is some attention. Very nice rebuild. It almost looks new. But guys like us never want new.
Off topic? It was watching you do your magic. I consider that exactly ON topic!
Hi, my feelings also, great stuff.
absolutely!
I don't feel for a second that it is anywhere off topic but on the contrary, it is well on topic and not what you may suspect we will think that it may be in any way off-topic. In fact, I believe it is right up there with all you do the best mate.
Preczactly
Anything from that time period is on topic.
PS Don't know the make or model but I remember my uncle using one ( over 60 years ago )
We love you great man!! Roberto & Camilla from Italy!!!
I can’t wait for Dave to show us this thing in action, I bet it will cut great.
As a 90 yr old limey. A pleasure to watch a tradesmen at work.
Off topic? .... Not in the very least.... right spot on! Awesome work. A $100 sickle mower turned into an $900 working power horse.
Nice to see something that has much history brought back to life for another 50 or 100 years of being useful.
I think everyone will agree that if you're doing it we enjoy watching and learning.
One of my fondest memories is helping my grandfather rivet new cutting teeth on his sickle bar. This was quite the enjoyable watch for me.
Those cutting teeth are called sickle sections. FYI
Dad had a New Holland mower, rather similar but with a shorter cutter bar. It had a 3-point hitch as this one does, and was powered by the PTO on the Ford 2N tractor. The 'pitman arm' as he called it was wooden, with metal ends. It translated the rotary motion to reciprocal, and we loved to hear the sound as the mower ran. I can remember watching him on the big grinding wheel, foot powered, of course, sharpening each tooth on the sickle bar. Every time he went out to the fields to cut hay the mower was meticulously oiled. Watching this brought back a lot of memories from childhood. Thanks so much for sharing, Dave!
Nice. Thanks Curt.
I think the true nature of your channel is fixing broken stuff. I'll watch you anytime making something useful from junk.
I liked today's video, thanks for taking us along... I'm hoping you'll do a short video showing us the mower in action. 💖🌞🌵😷
I worked in Parts Department at a CaseIH/Navistar Dealership for 20 years and this is the First time I ever got to see how much goes into assembly a Sickle Bar so it will LAST. I usually just dropped off the Parts and had to move on to the next Customer.
I always enjoyed when I could actually take the time to help the Mechanics.
Thanks for Posting this Dave!
That saw horse attached to a rim is absolutely genius
I spent my teenage years working on and using a sickle-bar mower in the 1950s. Thanks for the memories.
Boy oh boy, what memories!! We had this model of the mower when we were cutting hay for our herd of 25 dairy cows! The option we had was to have a hitch added on and a PTO so then a conditioner, or a crimper as some people call it, was pulled behind this mower. When that happens, you are crimping the row that you are straddling when cutting the next row to your right! And I do remember some neighbours having New Idea mowers as well! Greetings from Ontario, Canada!
Yes, we had that same setup--crimper behind the mower
My Dad was born 1918 He told me , in 1945 when he got home from service Air Force He purchased a Mcormick Deering W6 tractor and a Lincoln welder. He could make anything,or fix it! Really enjoy your show thanks
Oh I love mechanics .... I am a mechanic since 31 years and start with 16 years old.... Now we all waiting sor some fresh green to see the beaty work.. Thank you for the nice video 👍👍👍
"Working from pictures" ... What an amazing Craftsman you are, Dave.
I'm glad to see somebody who uses a ratchet and a wrench over an impact wrench any day. I cannot tell you how many nuts and bolts I've seen cross threaded, stripped, or broken as a result of those things over the years.
Doesn't really matter what you're working on, I watch to see an American master craftsman at work. Artists come in an many varieties. Thanks for bringing us along.
Watching you rehab the sickle bar mower was a treat. I have spent countless hours in the meadows mowing hay and I expect double that, in the pastures mowing filth to keep the weeds down. We had the side mounted machine on a Ford 8N, as opposed to the draw bar mounted machine, and the bar was only 7 feet long. I started mowing when I was about 13-14 years old. After the hay was down, we used a horse-drawn tedder to stir it up a bit and allow the air to circulate better and dry the hay out. There was also a horse-drawn mowing machine but it didn't get used after Grand-dad was talked into the Ford. I was about 5 years old when that transpired, but the team was kept around for a few years after that. We're talking 1950, in West Virginia. Thanks for the videos to watch!!!
It's always enjoyable to watch someone work who knows what they are doing. Looking forward to seeing using it to mow.
A 9' bar is a very long bar. I used to cut roadside weeds for the Township when a teenager.
We carried our own extra bars and changed out and riveted new teeth as required.
Likely a 6' long bar at most on a 3PH. No tail wheel. Thanks for the memories.
My dad used to buy horse drawn tools and fix them and then sell them. Hobby for a retired guy.
*- Dave, your new mower looks like the one our neighbor Farmer, Elwin Wells, used to cut the fields at home to keep the trees out way back in 1956.*
*- I road the frame behind the International Harvester tractor as he mowed.*
*- Elwin used a team to pull the hay wagon: one smaller mare, named "Gray", with a stout back end; and a taller gelding, named "Brownie", with a long stride.*
*- Each year, when we came to a huge glacial bolder that rose and sloped ever so slightly out of the field's grass line that had never been removed, Brownie would hold the wagon, and Gray would pull the wheel over so we could go on. They knew and remembered the field exactly how it needed to be done, turn by turn.*
*- Old man Dalton {great great great cousin of the founder of the town of Dalton, NH lived in a no running water tar-paper shack} and he drove Brownie when raking the fields with a Hay Rake after the mowing had dried. Elwin drove both horses for pulling the hay wagon.*
*- Because some of the mowed hay was too far away from the turns that had to be made by the Hay Rake, I used an old wood pronged Hay Fork to rake it under Browny's stomach for the Hay Rake to lift together into a row that then became a lines in the field for the hay baler.*
*- **www.google.com/search?q=Horse+Drawn+Hay+Rake*
*- **www.google.com/search?q=Antique+Wooden+Hay+Fork*
EngelsCoachShop doing a restauration-video... *mind blown*
No matter what the Master is doing I will watch, obviously a master of all trades.
Good morning Sir. Today I learned something new today. I'm 67 and an ole dog. I love to learn new things. Maybe I will never fix a mower. But who cares. It's the Willing to learn that drives me. God bless you Sir.
II would argue that this is absolutely carriage related. Horses and draw/pack animals need hay, and you just gave a great detailed lesson on how hay is harvested. I think my dad quit sickle bar mowing hay years ago when he bent his bar against one of the many rocks in our field. I've got to go have a look for the old mower in the junk pile now. I'm confident it is fixable now from seeing this. Thanks!
It's so nice to watch someone who knows what to do and the correct way to do it.
There is no doubt the you could make a video of watching paint drying both entertaining and educational . I love watching you put back into use machines and the varied buggies , wagons and the hardware and the tack required to safely use the animal power needed . Thank you for showing the skill ,tools of your trade , how those tools were used and the craftsmanship that brings it all together .
That turned out great, a little TLC goes a long way
Mr. Engels, i love watching you working metal, so no problem to me if it's on a more contemporary product!
You have such attention to detail and are honest enough to say the guards being cheaper bought then to remake them.
Hope the mower works for you when time comes.
Thanks.
That was absolutely fascinating. As someone who has never built a thing in my 84 years on this planet, I'm mesmerized by your manner, your skill, and your nonchalant way of stating, "well, the stemblaris was missing, so I made one from a picture". What??? Love your channel.
I've made many things in my 69 years and I'm equally mesmerized.
I to am always taken back with Dave's skills. I watch his videos at least 4 or 5 times.
Dave does more with a picture than I could do with a dimensional drawing.
Thank you everyone.
John, I share your fascination with the way Dave builds things from scratch. I have never made anything like that life sized, but make miniatures, and I think I have a harder time with and put more hard work into the small items than he does with the real life ones. By the way, if you ever find yourself a need of a good 'stemblaris', I think I can locate one for you. ;)
Mr. Dave is always a pleasure to watch you at work and see your ingenuity and inventiveness applied. Thanks always for the videos of her a warm greeting from the city of Catania.
Dave...I remember back in the day when your dad came to me for Welding Repairs... LoL
He was a Good Soul...I liked him alot!
I remember that as well. Thanks neighbor.
It was a real pleasure watching you methodically repair that mower! Thank you.
Dave you could post a video of the grass growing and I bet most of us would watch. Lol It was still a neat video
You are absolutely right! =)
I wouldn't put it past him: he's let us watch paint dry before, lol. And I liked it!
I'm torn between watching his videos,
at the end of my workweek, or watching
them Saturday morning. (After I sleep
in late.)
I'll let everyone know when I watch a bad
episode. (That time when Microsoft
hijacked his channel comes to mind.)
steve
@@steveskouson9620 Dave with Sat. morning coffee does not sound bad at all.
@@Bilabius, or an early morning Bloody
Mary. Irish Coffee?
steve
Annealing the weld, an example of that old mastery in crafmanship. Excelent, dear mr. Engel
When I was a young teen, my dad would buy ( after the last cutting) the cheapest crap he could, and I would spend all winter fixing the mower, rake and bayler up. We would use it all summer then he would sell it all (in great shape), and buy more junk.. I still have the scar on my pinky from first time I pulled the blade out and took it 75% off my hand..that was 30 to 35 years ago and I sure miss those times..
Thanks. This repair brought back 50 plus year old memories of summers spent on my aunt & uncle's farm.
Hi Dave,
Enjoyed watching you repair the mower. Now I know how they work. You and Diane stay safe.
Thanks Don.
When I was a kid, 51 now, we used sickle mowers for all our hay cutting, the one we had used a wood shaft to drive the cutter which rotated on a main flywheel. The wood shaft acting as a safety if you will, broke a few on such hidden things. Such simple designs and heavy duty. Its amazing how very little maintenance they needed compared to the 80s+ equipment. I enjoy your vids and you sharing your knowledge.
I tune in for.......a day in the life of Dave........so right on topic for me. I’d watch you sitting on the porch, with a beer, watching for the grass to reach mowing height, but can’t ever believe you’d sit still that long!
It may be slightly off /your/ usual topic, but it's right on one of my favorites -- rescuing and rebuilding antique and classic tools. I follow a bunch of channels already just for this kind of material. Thanks very much!
And, oh -- the people with those channels would accept you and your work in a heartbeat.
Your kind of spice is nice, makes life savory and enjoyable! Makes me want to come back for "Seconds" and even more! Thanks for your refreshing straight-talking attitude!!
My Dad and I mowed for years with one of those and a Famall F-20.
we supported 80 dairy cows on a hill side farm in NY.
I often see myself in your work as I have repaired many pieces of equipment over the years.
Once more it's not just repaired it's Show Quality , Can't hardly wait to see you put it to use , Bill
Hexagonal nuts, whatever next! ;-)
Nylock ones as well !
@@simonfreer7950 Dave's lost it - he's gone nuts! ;-)
I did not realize that the weld needed to be annealed. Now I understand why my weld attempt failed. Thanks.
We have a 1949 8N with the mid side mounted mower on it. (New Holland 14-4) We never had a proper work shop but after buying 2 extra of the mowers, finding rare shop manuals, and a friend with a machinist back ground we are still mowing. Now in 2023 I have to rebuild it again. A sickle bar is a beast of beauty.
I love it! Grandad never worked on a sickle without a box of band aids or kerchief nearby. He always new one of us grandkids would get a scrape or cut.
Great memories! Thanks.
I don't know how to call it correctly in English.
In Russia we call such people, "на все руки мастер" (A jack of all trades) or "мастер золотые руки". (Master with the golden hands).
👍👍👍🤝🤝
I enjoyed the video. I have never worked on a sickle mower before. I do remember our maintenance dept had one man that only sharpened these type mowers every day. He was a farmer and worked seasonally. When the crews began mowing, he began sharpening 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week until the mowing season came to an end. His expertise sharpening those things was a delight to watch.
Great save , Good for many more mowings. I like watching all your repairs, you have multiple crafts.
Thanks again for giving us something worth watching.
Couldn't even see the join after welding it. 100 bucks and some good old fashioned know-how, fantastic. I'd welcome more of these if you were of a mind to share. Always a pleasure watching a craftsman build or fix anything.
What a pleasure watching you rebuild that mower. Looking forward to seeing it in action sometime !! Thanks for sharing 😊😊
No baling wire? I've never seen one fixed without baling wire before. :)
That would be farmerizing lol
More great viewing, still more skills! Cheers from Christchurch New Zealand!
You lost me when you left all those hex nuts and bolts!
Thanks for another great video, Dave
I think most of us watch to see what you are doing. Not what you are doing it to. Everything that you have thought might be interesting is very interesting. I like to think that you do a proper job and YOU can make a purse from a sows ear. Just carry on doing what ever your doing because you have got it spot on. Thanks for posting
You're very kind.
Hi Dave and Diane, great video restoring what would have been thrown into the dump. Your skills are boundless! I would watch your video of you fixing a sandwich, Thank you for all your videos!….
Very nice. It's good to see someone take something and restore it to original. Things don't have to crumble and and fade away.
You remind me of my cousin, Bring back a 1915 Waterloo-Boy back to life from the time he pulled it out of the river to better than new. all the peices and parts he had to make, wonderful work.
Takes me back to the 1950s when the sickle bar mower was used for cutting grass and trimming thorny barbary hedges as well, courtesy of a Fergie 28. Much more complex than I imagined!
I am trying to restore a "little" four foot sickle bar mower on a 5HP walk behind tractor. You answered half a dozen questions on problems I had run into and made me want to get back on working on it again! Thank you Dave! As always great video!
As I watched you weld the bar, I was thinking in my head. "Now heat it up good so it doesn't break again". Then you go overboard and give it a good overnight soak. That's why we like you!
I think this man is born with tools . Always I believe the work must be a team
But when I watch him I believe some careers must be individuals.
God bless you man
I think the new generational must follow your videos to learn the nice & difficulties career
Sad to tell you I gave a sickle bar away. Cleaning up rusty metal. Thank you for sharing your skills. M
I may not speak up much as a subscriber but I enjoy your work.
I'm 71 now and remarried after being widowed 17 years. So my opportunities for shop work are now limited. So I enjoyed watching you. I am weak on welding and forge work. So things like that are good lessons.
I do know that a video like this takes a lot of hours to edit. Especially some of the detailed and clever things you did.
By the way, young ones watching this can see good work ethic, good follow-through and good attitude. Oh and HEY NO CURSING!! Yes I had heard that good work could be done without a dirty mouth. (Hmph. That must be that "character" we have sometimes heard about!)
Thank you for all your hard work on this, and your good explanations.
Michael Dougfir
Rural NE California
Where we grow high country alfalfa.
Appears it was welded previously but not properly. It now looks new and will run another 100 years. I love the colors you used, red/blue. Was hoping you would paint the sickle white for a July 4 show off, but you did use white grease so OK. Love watching you work cause I know it will be done right.
Stay safe my friend
Early 50s watched a farmer hay with horses and a cutter like yours. South Ontario Canada.
I did wonder if the previous weld had failed through it being brittle, so tempering your repair made perfect sense. Hopefully it serves you well, and of course, any more 'off topic' videos will be just as welcome. It's all a pleasure to watch in my book, sometimes you're reminding me of things I used to know, sometimes I'm learning something I didn't know. It's all learning, and that's never wrong.
The previous weld looked like it was not a very good weld either.
@@LTVoyager Yeah, looked a bit surface-y IYSWIM. Not much penetration there. Did think it might have been a stick welder job, but even so it's no excuse! Bevel the edges, lay in a few beads to be extra sure...💪😉
@@creepingjesus5106 Stick welding is perfectly fine on metal that heavy … if you know how to weld.
@@LTVoyager Yep, completely agree. Arc and oxyacetylene are so underrated these days, and yet if you watch repair videos from (for example, cos I follow a few) say India, Pakistan, Vietnam, they use little else, and do it perfectly well cos the know how is still there.
Mind you, not that I'm bashing MIG/TIG cos it's still possible to do a crap weld with those. As the saying goes 'If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail'.
@@creepingjesus5106 Absolutely. I am an amateur welder, but have watched a few pros and they can weld almost anything with a stick that is 1/8” or thicker. And there are a lot of 80 year old airplanes flying with gas welded airframes. 😁
We all hope you realize we will be needing some video of the mower functioning. Thanks. Fun video👍.
Isn‘t it awesome ? Something is broken and you can fix it by yourself ... that‘s so satisfying. Off Topic? ... na i think all Viewers like it like i like it... Good Job as ever... Hope you show us more from this work ... 👍🏽
Very nice to see some “modern” equipment being reparerd, thx
Absolutely love a bit of the spice of life, thank you for taking us along for the ride,
I think we all like shop maintenance videos as well, like that one where you did some maintenance on that super fancy table saw. Tool maintenance is important, and should never be ignored.
Here here.
tool maintenance = safety; never midn efficiency
Great video ! would love to just hang around your shop ! always look forward to your video's every friday here in Alabama
I think all your fans have no doubt, you could probably fabricate almost anything "from pictures". My Uncle was just like you, and I owe much of my success with cabinet making, carpentry and creative design to him. I always remember him saying, "I just looked at it, and figured it out." No matter what you build, it is a sincere pleasure to watch and learn. We are ALL very grateful for ALL your vids.
It usually happens in the head first huh. Thanks.
Perfect. In '64' I was 14 years old, mowing 640 acres of hay for a ranch near Sangudo Alberta, at 5am started mowing 7 foot bar, trailer type mower.
Old S Case tractor hand clutch only, no live pto.
The second round dropped the bar to start cutting and the bar dropped on a rock 2ft from the head and broke the bar.
I had it stopped before the sickle broke.
Removed it and threw into the truck and took it to Mosside Blacksmith and Welding . He beveled ends, heated in the forge and use rose bud. Welded it with an Forlong buzz box. Let it cool for an hour. Took back to the Ranch and by 11 I was mowing. As far as I know that weld never broke.
Takes me back to my teen age years. I worked for a neighbor and he used one of these mowers to cut his hay. I can still remember the correct way to load it on the wagon so you don't lose any.
Sickle bar mowers- haystacks and three legged dogs! Great video! I have a four foot belly mower for my Gravely tractor that needs rebuilding. I restored the hayrake that goes on a Gravely walk-behind. This is just the video I needed for inspiration. Thanks!
Three legged dogs - that's right! Every farm in West Wales had an old three legged collie - as soon as drum mowers came in in the 1970's all the pups were safe!
@@pycoed Not safe from the vintage tractor collector, like my former neighbor and his Rottweiler! May they frolic peacefully in the un-mown fields of Heaven!
When I was a kid we’d spend a whole week getting the 9’ mower ready for haying . The thing I remember most was learning how to peen rivets. It was the first time I knew what the peen side of the hammer head was made for!
That knowledge has served me well in so many situations.
Dave thanks for the visit to my youth... one needs a trip back there from time to time!
Nice job putting that old girl back in service!!!!
Thanks Dave!!
Used to help friends outside Granby, Co hay all of August at about 8,500‘
Old tractors, siclebar mowers, dump rakes, buckrakes and big loose stacks 20ft high x 20ft wide and 60 to 100ft long, loved every minute
Dave, variety is wonderful when I can watch you working. I loved this video. Thank you.
God bless you. Gonna say this before I even watch. When I've had a day, like to day my helper quit because he can get 19 an hour plus tips as a buser at the Cafe. Leaves me high and dry the busiest day of the year with no warning.
At least I can still watch some guy build a horse drawn carriage.
And I thank you for my sanity. Sincerely. Sir, I thank you. I doubt you really know how much you mean to us. No, that's wrong, I think you do know. I think you get it. And may God bless you over and over for getting it. And for building these wooden things you build every Friday for us, and your customers, but mostly for yourself...
Go figure, probably no wood involved. Cherished none the less though.
Could not agree with you more. Had days like that myself recently, it's nice to just sit down and watch and forget and re group for the following day, it's always a better day
Hang in there. And thanks to all of you.
I have watched many of your videos and have come to the conclusion that you can repair anything from a plow share to a broken heart!,!
I recall y dad teaching me how to repair a sickle and the sickle bar, we also had are electric grinder that we used to sharpen a sickle, on of the first job I had was to take a glass jug of cool water out to my dad who was mowing hay about a mile from the ranch. I walked out to the field with the jug, waited for dad and the team to come around to the corner where I was at, gave him the jug, which he took a good pull from, then cover up the jug with fresh hay and stood it up so we could find the jug again. He asked me to get up on the metal seat of the mower, he sat on the rolled up rim of the seat and away we went. After two rounds he stopped the team and got off, he then told me to go ahead and keep mowing until dark and then come in and stable the team.
It took me about three rounds to get the hang of stepping on the peddle to lift the sickle bar so the team could step around the corner and move ahead, thank god for that team, they knew a lot more about mowing hay then I did at that time. Cutting and raking hay with a team drawn dump rack became my work after that day. It was hot and dusty some days and sunny and breezy on others, but me and that team got to be best friends over the next couple of years. After the war was over, dad was able to buy a couple of tractors and sold that team to one of his brothers, was a sad day for me, it was like loosing old friends.
Really enjoy watching your work, especially on the sickle mower, hopefully you will take on a few more of those kind of projects. I've lived through most kinds of that kind machinery.
Hello from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them coming.
Enjoyed the video Mr. Engel. You couldn't even tell it had been broken . We had an old Allis forklift at work looked allot like yours with a Perkins diesel that smoked like a freight train. Thanks for the video and y'all take care and God bless.
Ce Monsieur me procure énormément de bonheur par son travail bien fait. Merci.
I thoroughly enjoyed the repair of the sickle bar mower
what a magnifican repair Many summers ago, 1961, I spent one summer on a cattle ranch. When haying started I was on a small ford tractor mowing hay and that is mostly what I did through July, August and early September. We bailed about 2,500 for use around the ranch but the rest was put up in loose stacks. Your mower repair brought back pleasant memories, Today that has all changed, swathers and large round bales. The loose hay era is gone. I am pleased to heare you still may put up loose hay. Thanks for sharing. Davuid Adair
That repair was right in your wheelhouse!
I love it!! So glad to see you restore it back and save it from the scrape pile. Nice touch painting the guards back blue again. I thought i was the only one still using a sickle bar mower. # 35 JOHN DEERE mower NEW IDEA two wheel rake And a # 47 INTERNATIONAL baler. Oops almost forgot 1946 M FARMALL.
😊 Mine's a 51 M
Very interesting. It brings back some memories. My grandfather owned and operated a hay baling business decades ago. I came along at the tail end. That was 60 years ago. I did not ever get to mow. I did get yelled at if I got caught using the special grind stone used for sharpening the sickle. My job was mostly riding the slip pulled behind the baler. That and stacking the bales. 80 pound wire tied. One learns quickly how NOT to move those.
This is craftsmanship! Fascinating content. Greetings from Germany.
Happy that you chose to restore it. Excellent job!