IH 100 mower (was Re: [Farmall] "new" mower needs ID

[John Hall]

Must admit I haven't been following all of these posts on this subject but 
here is how we used to lift our sickle mowers.

 We had 2 mowers, a JD pitman style and a balnced head IH, maybe a 100? Both 
were bolted to the drawbars of the Super A's. The drawbars were reinforced 
to keep from twisting. We used a 1/2"cable that ran to the rockershaft for 
lifting.

For the JD mower we ran the cable under the center of the tractor and around 
a pulley mounted where the front cultivator went. From there it went and 
hooked in the rockershaft. I think we added a pulley on the mower frame 
also.

The IH mower used a similair setup but we ran the cable over the left bull 
gear housing to the "rear" rockershaft. I think we had to mount a "guide 
ring" on the inside of the fender to keep the slack cable out of the wheel. 
Again we mounted a pulley on the mower frame.

We have put the IH mower on our 454. We used one of the sway bars with holes 
in it to mount it to the 3pt hitch arms. A small cylinder was used to lift 
it. It needed samller lines or a restrictor becuse it lifted way too fast!!

For trimming around fields we mounted a solid rod to the cutter bar to hold 
the IH mower at 90 deg. Worked great for keeping trees trimmed back. We 
obviously would use an old balde for this.

John Hall