massey 6 mower

[masseyowner]

who makes pitman arms for the 6 mower

 

[hymie2lt]

Is this the one you need? NOS. Wayne

 

[DanielW]

For an old Massey #6, I highly doubt you'll find someone making them. There are still some suppliers for the more common pitmans, but those are namely the JD#5's/8's/9's, IH 27's/28's/32's, MF 32's/42's, etc. But the MH #6 is older and less common, so I think you'll just have to make one yourself. Which is what most folks do for their mowers anyway. Just find a good chunk of straight-grained hardwood and have at her.

The most important thing: Measure distances and positions to try and get your register right, and then check/adjust the register after installing the pitman. A lot of folks give themselves a lot of grief when they make a pitman with the jaw distance slightly longer/shorter than the factory and cause the knife to be out of register. A knife even a little out of register will cause it to cut like garbage and be constantly plugging

Also a recommendation from my own experience making pitmans: Drill the hole for the heavy jaw clamp spring first (circled below). If the wood is going to split or tear out while you're working it, it's most likely to happen when drilling that hole. Better to know sooner so you don't go to all the trouble of sizing, spacing, cutting and drilling everything else, only to have it split on you when you drill that hole.

 

[DanielW]

To add to my last post: The ball diameter on any of those old pitman mowers was the pretty much always the same (I believe 1-1/8" dia., though I could be misremembering), and the jaws themselves were generally spaced the same distance apart to clamp properly, meaning the thickness fore/aft of the pitmans were pretty much all the same. At least this was the case for IH, JD, Oliver, Cockshutt, Ford, and the later MF's that I'm more familiar with, So I suspect it would be the same for your #6. I thus suspect the width would be 1-1/8" (dimension circled here). This is one of my sketches of various pitman dimensions. This one happens to be from an IH, but in the few I looked at they're all 1-1/8". Can't promise it would be the same on your #6, but I suspect so. Some measuring of the jaws and bal diameter should confirm.

 

[300guy]

The last time I bought a pitman arm I got it at Tractor supply.