JoeM 7,874 #1 Posted March 26, 2021 Why is it called a sickle bar mower? A. Because you can eat a popsicle while you use it. B. Originally it was called a cycle mower and slang took over and it became sickle. C. John W. Sickle holds the patent. D. Its use is similar to the hand held sickle. E. All of the above. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #2 Posted March 26, 2021 (edited) Good one Joe always wonder how they got that name. Hmmmm ... I'm gonna go with B Edited March 26, 2021 by WHX24 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,912 #3 Posted March 26, 2021 Without Google, C.(?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,912 #4 Posted March 26, 2021 Or maybe E. Typically when there’s an all of the above, it seems to hood true. I hate it when I over think! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #5 Posted March 26, 2021 (edited) NO... no thats cheatin.... we catch you cheatin we is sending this sickle after ya.... Edited March 26, 2021 by WHX24 2 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,912 #6 Posted March 26, 2021 I could use the Google Machine, but I won’t Uncle Jim! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,227 #7 Posted March 26, 2021 I'll go with B & D 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,627 #8 Posted March 26, 2021 Not to be demeaning on the intelligence level of the posts above but it's clearly A 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 41,155 #9 Posted March 26, 2021 It's called a sickle which is slang for sicko (psycho) . As in you have to be a sicko to use it wearing flip flops. 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,627 #10 Posted March 26, 2021 11 minutes ago, squonk said: It's called a sickle which is slang for sicko (psycho) . As in you have to be a sicko to use it wearing flip flops. @pullstart.....? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,912 #11 Posted March 26, 2021 36 minutes ago, squonk said: It's called a sickle which is slang for sicko (psycho) . As in you can pretty much accomplish anything wearing Jesus Cruisers. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ranger 1,750 #12 Posted March 26, 2021 1 hour ago, WHX24 said: NO... no thats cheatin.... we catch you cheatin we is sending this sickle after ya.... You can see how dangerous these things are. Where are his FEET??? 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,627 #13 Posted March 26, 2021 10 minutes ago, ranger said: You can see how dangerous these things are. Where are his FEET??? He's got some NASTY skinned knuckles too. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ranger 1,750 #14 Posted March 26, 2021 1 minute ago, ebinmaine said: He's got some NASTY skinned knuckles too. Looks like he’s been shaving with it as well! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 7,016 #15 Posted March 26, 2021 I'll go with D. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff-C175 7,202 #16 Posted March 26, 2021 3 hours ago, squonk said: you have to be a sicko 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wheel Horse 3D 3,795 #17 Posted March 26, 2021 Yup goin' with Delta! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,600 #19 Posted March 26, 2021 5 hours ago, JoeM said: Why is it called a sickle bar mower? A. Because you can eat a popsicle while you use it. B. Originally it was called a cycle mower and slang took over and it became sickle. C. John W. Sickle holds the patent. D. Its use is similar to the hand held sickle. E. All of the above. A. True... always. B. Meh... C. Nah... D. Yup E. Meh... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,627 #20 Posted March 26, 2021 48 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said: A. True... always. B. Meh... C. Nah... D. Yup E. Meh... I'd like to apologize ahead of time to everybody who reads this post in the future but your answer is above made me think of this... 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #21 Posted March 27, 2021 We always knew about Pullstart EB but you jusssttt ain't right! So if it's D how did the hand held version get it name? ... just sayin..... 2 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,627 #22 Posted March 27, 2021 36 minutes ago, WHX24 said: EB but you jusssttt ain't right Hehehehe. Agreed. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lane Ranger 10,968 #23 Posted March 27, 2021 (edited) Sickle mowerEdit Eicher tractor with a mid-mounted finger-bar mower Sickle mowers, also called reciprocating mowers, bar mowers, sickle-bar mowers, or finger-bar mowers, have a long (typically six to seven and a half feet) bar on which are mounted fingers with stationary guardplates. In a channel on the bar there is a reciprocating sickle with very sharp sickle sections (triangular blades). The sickle bar is driven back and forth along the channel. The grass, or other plant matter, is cut between the sharp edges of the sickle sections and the finger-plates (this action can be likened to an electric hair clipper). The bar rides on the ground, supported on a skid at the inner end, and it can be tilted to adjust the height of the cut. A spring-loaded board at the outer end of the bar guides the cut hay away from the uncut hay. The so-formed channel, between cut and uncut material, allows the mower skid to ride in the channel and cut only uncut grass cleanly on the next swath. These were the first successful horse-drawn mowers on farms and the general principles still guide the design of modern mowers. https://smallfarmersjournal.com/a-short-history-of-the-horse-drawn-mower/ cart Below is a short excerpt from SFJ Editor and Publisher Lynn R. Miller’s Horsedrawn Mower Book, a complete and informative guide to the horse drawn, ground drive mower. I am prejudiced in favor of the traditional ground drive, horse drawn mower. I am bound to push this fine tool as appropriate and even necessary for each and every horse or mule powered farm, even those which have chosen to put in the starting lineup, motorized mower units. The horse drawn sickle-bar mower has only been in popular use since shortly after the U.S. Civil War (1860’s). Earliest crude production models started to appear around 1845. Many refinements were made and the basic style of the “push-pull” frame came into being at the end of the nineteenth century. The late model, enclosed gear units began to appear in the 1920’s. “International” still made the HD mowers until just after the end of WWII. (They would have continued long after that were it not for government programs to force the draft animals off the farms and replace them with new tractors, a move seen to absorb the economic displacement which follows the dramatic end of war-time economy. This was a period and a rationale which gave us high-powered chemical herbicides and pesticides as well. War, it would seem, continues to destroy long after it concludes.) The enclosed gear, late model John Deere, Case, Oliver, David Bradley, and McCormick Deering International mowers I (we) are so fond of had a zenith of popular manufacture and use that lasted just short of 25 years. Millions of farmers with millions of mowers, built to have a serviceable life of 100 plus years, all pushed into the fence rows. I say, it was far too short of a period, I say we ought to still be using them and benefitting from their efficiency and practicality. Edited March 27, 2021 by Lane Ranger 2 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #24 Posted March 27, 2021 Holy crap Lane .... I was just fishin for some of of those of those bars we all know you are hoarding ... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeM 7,874 #25 Posted March 27, 2021 (edited) As you know most answers could be right but I thinks D is the best fit. The best info I found was in the 1972 patent and of course Webster. Edited March 27, 2021 by JoeM 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
