McCormick sickle bar sharpener

[Dingo3]

Found this a few years ago at swap meet. I was told that it was a sickle bar sharpener.
Its Marked McCormick. I was wondering how old it might be and how it works. Most Ive seen are just small table clamp devices. Im assuming this mounts to the equipment. Is it missing any parts?

 

[Dingo3]

Pictures

 

[wore out]

I used to have one, but lost it in a shop fire in the early 80's.

The unit is made to clamp to the cast iron wheel on a horse-drawn mower for support during use.

The ewe-tube video linked below shows one in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ThSnDnz6Rw

 

[Dingo3]

That was fast, thanks! Great video it tells me
everything I need to know. Now I wish I had the mower
to put it on.

 

[Chester5731]

I have the mower and wish I had the grinder.

 

[wh]

How bad would u like one. Pretty sure i have one hanging in the barn. North alabama.

 

[Dingo3]

Chester, Im not going to do anything with it. I just
thought it was cool. If I can figure out how to show my
email down below. Contact me.

 

[Leroy]

They were from before serated sections when only smooth sections and if you were out mowing and mower started to plug from not cutting you just stopped in the field and pulled the knife and put the grinder on the wheel and sharpened the sections that were not cutting and then put the knife back in and whent on with your mowing. That grinder could date any place from the late 1800's to bid 1900's.

 

[Leroy]

MID not bid 19990.s and I do have them in the master parts books from dealer counter for I think all the IH made mowers.

 

[Athol Carr]

Here is one mounted on a McCormick mower wheel. They were apparently clamped to the rear of seat support when in the field.

 

[J.Wondergem]

Dad had one when I was a kid. What pain, I had to turn the crank.

 

[rustred]

its pretty much a useless thing nowadays. the sections nowadays are seraded and not require sharpening. basically from the horse mower days.