[AT] Deere plant visit

[Dean VP]

Larry/Walt/Ron:

I have added three more color/gray scale scanned pictures of JD horse drawn
mowers #2, #3 & #4 from Page 255 of "John Deere Tractors and Equipment,
Volume One 1837-1959 by Don Macmillan and Russell Jones". The one of the #3
is supposedly a copy of a 1935 color advertisement; #2 & #4 is a picture at
a sale in 1987 and #4 looks a bit like a gray scale image of the mower. I
have very color deficient eye sight so you folks can maybe pick out all the
colors.  I think I can see that all of them have Red Tongues and Trees. The
pictures imply by their shading that the bar may be Green but I have a
really tough time with seeing Greens at all.

I do think we have to be very careful making hard judgments about the colors
we see in the advertisement. Color film technology was really not available
in the Horse Drawn era so ad departments may have gotten a little creative
with their copy. 

With my limited color sight capability the only firm conclusion I would draw
from these pictures is that the wood parts were painted Red. 

Hope this doesn't add to the confusion. 

See added pictures:

http://public.fotki.com/deanvp/implements/jd/sickle_mowers/horse/



Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

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Very possible.  All I remember from the John Deere-L was the patina of
polished steel on the whole bar.  A couple of summers ago, we toured
around some of the Amish settlements just north of Salt Fork in east
central Ohio and I saw a John Deere horse-drawn mower being pulled by a
couple of Belgians.  The whole mower was rust-colored and the seat was
missing.  It was being driven by a 10 to 12-year-old kid who was
barefoot and standing on the mower frame with wet rye grass all over it.
Of course, the kid didn't bother to take the mower out of gear when he
stopped, so every time the team moved around a little bit, the knife
started working.

It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.  I'm sure anyone from
OSHA would have had a heart attack.

Larry

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Larry:

I'm not sure I agree with that. Rock guards may be green but I'm pretty
sure
the bar itself remained black. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

www.deerelegacy.com

http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm



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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry D. Goss
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The sickle bar is green, Walt.  Anybody who has ever had to buy
replacement rock guards knows that.  The big question should be: Of the
several official John Deere green colors, which one is the right one?  I
kind of smile to myself when I go to shows and find restored letter
series John Deere's sporting the four-digit model paint.

Larry

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In a message dated 5/4/2006 10:08:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rlcook at pionet.net writes:

I'll be  darned.  Green with yellow wheels.  Who'd a thunk it?

Ron  Cook
Salix, IA



Quick, without looking Ron what color is the Sickle bar.
 
Walt  Davies
Cooper Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460 


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