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Glenn in Michig

07-26-2005 09:20:33




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Can anyone tell the length of the pitman arm on a "47 Farmall Cub as it came to me broken when I got it from my father-in-law.




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El Toro

07-26-2005 13:11:48




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 Re: Pitman arm in reply to Glenn in Michigan, 07-26-2005 09:20:33  
Can you measure the broken pitman to get an overall length in order to make new one? You could make a new one yourself from oak or maple.
Hal



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Glenn in Michigan

07-27-2005 08:02:38




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 Re: Pitman arm in reply to El Toro, 07-26-2005 13:11:48  
I would measure but don"t know if what I have is all there was as it sat in a barn for many years so I never saw the original length...It has a 5ft bar if that"s any help. I can make a new one but need to know an approximate length when it is mounted.



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El Toro

07-27-2005 09:38:09




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 Re: Pitman arm in reply to Glenn in Michigan, 07-27-2005 08:02:38  
Is there a model number on the mower? If you have the parts that attaches the pitman from the cutter knife to the bellcrank driven by the pto
or pulley. You can get a ball park measurement of the pitman and compare that to your broken pieces. You don't want the cutter knife to be driven too far in either direction. You may need to do this by trial and error and move the cutter by rotating the pulley by hand to make sure its
traveling free in both directions. I wouldn't use the tractor to drive it until I tried this first. Sickle bar mowers are not being used now as they were before rotary mowers became popular. Haybines are being used in the fields too. Hal

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Glenn in Michigan

07-29-2005 04:36:34




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 Re: Pitman arm in reply to El Toro, 07-27-2005 09:38:09  
Thanks for the information Hal, I measured the pieces and came up around 31" and found one at TSC around 31 and 3/4. will give it a spin by hand and see if too long or just right...appreciate the hollar and cautions though. I hope to have it trimming the ditch and field lines this week end



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El Toro

07-29-2005 07:04:20




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 Re: Pitman arm in reply to Glenn in Michigan, 07-29-2005 04:36:34  
When I was a teen back in the late 40's, my late brother was mowing near a fence row and got the horses too close when he was trying to turn the horses. He broke the tongue on the mower and my dad wasn't too happy, I told him accident's happen
and be glad no one was hurt. The horses weren't injured either. I took the old 10-20 tractor out
and chained the broken tongue to the drawbar.

My dad was worried about getting the mower back
in the shed. A few days later I sawed off the
tongue to a stub and made a pair of brackets in at school. I had to use a brace and bit to drill the holes, so I could install those brackets.

I hooked up the 10-20 to the mower and went around and told my dad to get on the mower and we went out and mowed a few acres of alfalfa. We used that rig until we got an H with a 7 foot sickle bar in 1950. I left the farm in 1951
after high school and went to work for the US government. My brother joined the Air Force the day after we graduated and I was drafted into the Army in 1953. I was rehired at my old job in 1955 and I also got married in 1953 and our daughter was born at Ft Bragg NC. I retired in 1994. My dad got out of farming too. Hal

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El Toro

07-29-2005 06:44:39




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 Re: Pitman arm in reply to Glenn in Michigan, 07-29-2005 04:36:34  
The caution was so you don't break your new pitman
or the sickle bar knife. I thought they used a four foot sickle bar on those Cub's. I guess if
two horses could pull a five foot mower, your Cub should be able to handle it. Happy Mowing. Hal



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