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#5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar

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Clarkbug

07-17-2007 18:15:38




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Hello All.

After looking through the manual for my #5 mower, I see that at one point a kit was available to install a wheel on the end of the cutter bar.
Even though there were probably thousands of the mowers sold, how common was it to get one of these kits?

And perhaps more importantly to this post, are they still available anywhere? I can definitely see where it would be useful to have a wheel on the end of the bar, and after mowing with it this past weekend, I think I wouldnt mind having one.

But is this just a pipe dream to find the actual parts that would make this possible?
Thanks in advance,

Bug

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Clarkbug

07-19-2007 02:15:51




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
Thanks very much for your input on this everyone.
It sure is nice to have a large base of knowledge!



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James Howell

07-18-2007 10:11:30




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
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The wheel that you described is a Sweet Clover Bar-Wheel High-Cutting Attachment.

I have seen only two of these wheels up for auction on eBay and both were expensive.

Check the YT classified ads for Kansas. There is a gentleman named David Kratzer from Geneseo, KS.

He has provided many parts for both my #5 mowers at very reasonable prices.

Hope this helps.

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Clarkbug

07-18-2007 03:15:53




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
Thanks for all the replies everyone.
Ill have to take a look and see what I can come up with to fab something up. I just wasnt sure if the actual JD parts were still around anywhere. Im sure they would be expensive if they were.
Along with putting a wheel on the end, I would have to put something under the inner shoe as well, right?



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fixerupper

07-18-2007 05:52:24




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-18-2007 03:15:53  
If I remember right we had a long 5/8" J bolt with about 5" of threads that hung down from the mower frame and went under the linkage going down to the inner shoe. This held the inner shoe off the ground a ways. Jim



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georgeky

07-17-2007 21:00:51




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
Clarkbug, don't know about the JD, but I have a couple of them for my old Farmall mowers. I think they would be easily made.



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fixerupper

07-17-2007 19:33:40




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
We had a wheel on our #5 when we used it to swath oats. I think it came with the slat swather attachment. The wheel was on a row divider that we bolted to the end of the cutter bar and was built heavy duty with roller bearings and a hard rubber tire. If I remember right dad replaced it only once in the twenty some years that we used it. We swathed about twenty acres a year. You probably wouldn't need a real sturdy one cause you won't have anything dragging the bar down the way we did. Jim

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johns48jdb

07-17-2007 18:20:09




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
we grew up pulling and riding a mule mower behind an h farmall and we just took some clamps and bolts and a wheel and made our own. if it isn't for show, make you one to get you by.



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Superpicker

07-17-2007 18:18:57




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Clarkbug, 07-17-2007 18:15:38  
You could rig up one with some scrap steel and a old pushmower wheel. Use steel(drill holes) that will allow to adjust the wheel higher or lower if necessary. We did this for a 37 mower.



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BarryfromIA

07-17-2007 19:32:42




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 Re: #5 Mower - Wheel for Cutter Bar in reply to Superpicker, 07-17-2007 18:18:57  
The wheel was so you could cut the crop and leave taller stubble. There were flat strap iron bars that attached to the cutter bar and drug behind. The ends of the irons curved up to form the crop in to windrows. Used mostly on oats around here years ago.



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