I just re-read your post, and have a silly but basic question. Where is the bar now? Is it straight up in the air, or laid out close to parallel to the ground, but not lowering to actually ride along the ground?
If it's sticking up basically vertical, the hydraulics won't help you a bit. If it's an IH mower, you'll find a rod connected to the frame of the mower at one end, usually by a ring, and passing through the mower bar and held up in place by a nut on the other end of the rod. If it is IH and the nut is the original, it will look like a crank welded to a nut. You'll have to put a shoulder into the bar to take the tension off it while you thread the nut off of the rod and then lower the bar to the ground manually. There should be an odd piece of light barstock with a hole in the end of it on your mower. This is where you put the rod, with the nut threaded on to hold it up out of the way while you run the mower.
Once the bar is lowered in this manner, they hydraulics, if you're hooked up to them, will allow the bar to lower and follow the ground.
Do you have any pictures of this rig you can post? It might help us figure out what you've got.
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