Paul meant to say it's a "Sickle Mower" not Suckle Mower. It was used to cut hay. Be careful when moving it or lowering the sickle bar. It can cut your fingers off if you get them in between the sickle guards/points. The mower doesn't have to be moving for this to happen. Just lowering the sickle bar causes the sickle to slide inside the bar. It'll cut more than one finger off at at time.
When I was in high school there was a boy 2 years behind me. He had all his fingers on each hand except his thumbs cut off from one of these sickles. He was just 4 years old when it happened. This is why I say be careful. Always grab the sickle bar from the very end and fingers away from the guards.
It took two good horses to pull one of those thru the alfalfa and clover fields years ago. Since the sickle had to recipricate very fast the gearing had to have a very high gear ratio. This made the mower very hard to pull especially thru thick hay. This is also why the mower is made mainly of cast iron parts. It had to be heavy so the wheels would get good traction due to the gearing of the machine. If the machine wasn't heavy the wheels would just slide over the ground surface.
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