IHC Sickle Mower - Eureka, MT
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T0SHEA
N 48° 54.345 W 115° 04.984
11U E 640470 N 5418749
A newer sickle Mower, as horse drawn mowers go, these IHCs were still manufactured with wooden tongues.
Waymark Code: WMV8EE
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2017
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Someone had managed to gather together about 60 farm implements and wagons and has decided to put them on display. The vast majority of the farm implements are very old horse drawn machines. The collection includes plows, cultivators, harrows, discs, mowers, corn planters, farm wagons, potato diggers and planters, a hay loader, a manure spreader and two road graders. The display is immediately north of the highway and appears to be accessible 24/7/365, at no charge.
An IHC No. 9, these were built by International between 1939 and 1952. A much improved version of earlier models, the No. 9 had enclosed gears, a great improvement over earlier open gear models. The mower came with a 6 or 7 foot sickle bar - this one looks to have a 7 foot bar. With the larger bar, it would likely have been pulled by three horses. Given that these mowers were made into the 1950s, many would have been adapted to be tractor drawn. This one may or may not have; the end of the tongue is in sufficiently poor condition that we can't say one way or another.
