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Jason

06-15-2003 21:36:51




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just bought what I believe is a model 12 mower, mounts on a F-12/14, looks like one in the archive pictures. I've looked around for info on the net but haven't found much. I need to find a place to buy information on how to set one up. The usual sources don't have this model listed. Anyone have any ideas on where to turn. thanks J




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ET

06-16-2003 07:24:59




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 Re: model 12 mower in reply to Jason, 06-15-2003 21:36:51  
I have a 12 mower that I fixed up and used a few years ago to mow 40 acers of set aside ground. The pitman and cutter bar parts are all pretty standard with other IH mowers. Several thinks are screwed on with left hand threads like the pitman nut on the flywheel. I also seem to remember the pto and flywheel are left hand threaded onto there shafts. From experiance I can tell you 20 to 30 acers would be a long day, 10 acers and you know you did somthing. Twisting around to pull the lift leaver is back killer. Mowing rough ground with the lift leaver bouncing back and fourth by your elbo teaches you to keep your arms tucked in. The trip bar is a manuel reset so you get off every time to do that, it was real fun in the poison ivy. On flat good ground you could make fair time with it if you kept your headlands narrow.

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Hugh MacKay

06-16-2003 13:49:24




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 Re: Re: model 12 mower in reply to ET, 06-16-2003 07:24:59  
ET: A good Farmall mower man mows the headlands right to a point, never stops or lifts the mower on a corner. You don't waste time traveling the headland with cutter up. If you don't mow across the headland, you don't rake the headland and you don't bale on the headland. Those 7' IH mowers were all good for 2 to 3 acres per hour and when they were built a day was 12 to 16 hours.



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ET

06-17-2003 06:55:31




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 Re: Re: Re: model 12 mower in reply to Hugh MacKay, 06-16-2003 13:49:24  
Hugh,
Keeping the cutterbar in the grass and cutting is not a problem on flat ground with square corners but the real world I live in has hills and triangle shaped fields, not to mention the knolls and diversion ditches. I have never found a way to keep the cutter bar in the hay on those 120 degree plus corners in the triangle pieces.



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Hugh MacKay

06-16-2003 03:18:32




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 Re: model 12 mower in reply to Jason, 06-15-2003 21:36:51  
Jason: There is actually a very good picture of a model 12 mower mounted on a F-12 on page 216 of the book 150 Years of IH by CH Wendel. The picture is a rear view, and mounting looks very straight forward. The design of this mower is very much the same as used on all IH mowers well into the 1960s. Lever for lifting the mower bar is on the operators right. At a distance the mower could quite easily pass for the fast hitch mower on a SC, 200 or 230.

Actually quite a mower in its day, 7 foot cutter bar and could cut 20 to 30 acres per day. Production like that really didn't get surpassed by much until the days of the 9' mower conditioners. A picture of a 12-B mower right beside the no 12 shows the same mowing mechanism but with a rear caster wheel and semi mounted to same tractor. I have used newer versions of this mower design, and they are without question one of the best mower designs of all time. Well worth preserving.

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