RUSTY - That mower looks like the 6 ft Brillion We and half our neighbor's had, it even had the same terribly 2 u-joint PTO shaft, a universal right next to the gearbox and the other right by the coupler yoke that attached to the tractor pto shaft. The hitch pin is just a few inches behind the frt universal and the rear universal is several FEET, like about 4 to 5 feet behind the hitch pin. The frt u-joint bends at a great angle, the rear u-joint barely bends, and that causes the pto shaft to oscillate forward and backwards trying to maintain a steady speed of the mower blades. A bearing about 2 ft behind the frt universal and two yokes and a universal joint installed in that drive shaft would stop ALL that hammering. I ran our Brillion over around 200 acres a year pulling it with my Farmall Super H, normally ran 3rd gear, 5 mph. Mowed hay, chopped corn stalks, and sometimes clipped hog pastures. I've just recently seen a couple Brillion cutters with the 3rd universal in the driveshaft. All IH rotary cutters had 3 universals, they run nice and quiet on tight turns. Our Deere #25 & #30 pull type combines had two universals up front and they both ran smooth and quiet when turning as short as you could without a rear tractor tire getting back into the hitch of the combine. I Don't know how much more that 3rd u-joint cost but I know it was only a small fraction of what replacing a bunch of rearend parts would have cost.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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