Sickle sections Mower tire

[Rick Remmert]

I went to the local farm store today to buy sickle sections for my mower. They have the ones that I have been using for the last 3 years that are wore out. They also have the ones shown in the picture. Both have the hardened teeth. The one on the right has bigger teeth. They are all the same price. Which ones should I use? I also hauled the rotary mower home today. The tire that can never go flat has. It has gotten bigger and will not stay on the rim. Is there some way to fix this or do I need to look for a new tire? Thanks for your time.

 

[Copper Lincoln]

The fine knife sections are geared towards grass/hay and the course knife sections more towards grains as far as I have been told.

 

[JD Seller]

The fine tooth sections are for smaller stemmed plants like grass. The larger toothed sections are for coarser stems like soybeans, or wheat straw. Things with stems that would tend to roll/slide of the fine tooth sections.

As for your tire. There is a cable that goes in a circle through all the sections of rubber. I would bet that it is coming apart. Maybe rusted or becoming frayed. There is no way to fix them that I know of. You used to be able to just buy the rubber part. The rim will come apart in two sections. You then just bolt it into another segmented tire.

 

[maxwell99]

See something new everyday, I have never seen one of those tires come apart like that. I just assumed these tires would last a life time.

 

[Anonymous-0]

there is a bolt holding that tire in a circle, musta rusted off. You can buy a new wheel from agrisupply.com, if you know the measurements.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 19:19:22 03/15/14) See something new everyday, I have never seen one of those tires come apart like that. I just assumed these tires would last a life time.

Looks like you are on borrowed time.

 

[maxwell99]

show,
you may be right, I very well may be on borrow time.

things just do not last like they used to.

I have a 1948 John Deere one row semi mount corn picker and the small trailing tire when flat last year.
Of course it is a 9" tire and tube, if they had just installed a better quality tire and tube when they built that thing, I would not be having to deal with a flat tire. why a 9" non std size tire and tube, as most small tires now are 8".

I looked at installing one of these old rotary cutter tires on my corn picker, but got tired of messing with it.

just wanted the tires to be up and rolling, so someday when my kids sell all my stuff to the scrap man, the old picker would be standing tall and all wheels rolling.

 

[Leroy]

I have that tire unless I thru it away that is good but my rim rusted away. If that tire is still here you can have it just by getting it.

 

[Leroy]

That 9" tire was common on McCormick, New Idea, Minny Moline as well as Deere.

 

[Carlyle hoffman]

If you have serrated LEDGER plats , you need SMOOTH KNIVES. Smooth LEDGERS , SERRATED KNIVES.

 

[Rick Remmert]

I hate to disagree with you on that. When I was overhauling this mower a couple of years ago, what you said was posted on this forum a couple of times. I emailed Herschel where I got the sections from and the rep there said that was not the case anymore. His advice was with the manufacturing process they have now, they can be mixed or go matched. I have been running serrated ledger plates and sections for three years with no problems. In fact the mower had them that way when I got it as does the parts mower I have been taking ledger plates off of. JMHO.

 

[Leroy]

70 years ago was already running serated plates with serated sections. Have never had smooth plates and orignal guards on mowers built in the 20's-30's had the serated plates and always run the serated sections.

 

[Leroy]

Looks like I threw it away.

 

[hd6gtom]

take those back and get chromed sections, they don't bend or break if you hit a stick while mowing the back swath

 

[redforlife]

I agree that the finer serated sections are for the finer steamed tougher to mow grasses such as native grass. The coarser for soybeans and wheat straw. I mow alfalfa, brome, and native and I personally prefer top serated only (smooth on bottom) and use smooth plated gaurds. I can ussualy square up (sharpen) the guards a time or two with an angle grinder before I have to replace them. The sickle sections are pretty much just done when they are done(because of seration), but I have been known to touch them up just a smidge maybe one time with the grinder. A smooth section can be re-sharpened quit abit before needing replaced, but just doesn't seem to straight out cut as good as a serated.