Sickle bar mower frame plate rebuild

[Lane Ranger 10,947]

I decided to use a new 3/4 inch rod for a sickle bar mower frame plate I am rebuilding!

 

The sickle mower I am working on is a pretty rusty one.   You can buy a 3/4 12 inch long rod with continuous keyway on eBay .   The rod in plate is ten inches.  The rod holds the 5 inch drive pulley that connects to your tractor motor and a 2.5 inch pulley in center of frame plate that turns the sickle drive belt 90 degrees.   I use new bearings and they have two set screws.  Both pulleys use keys.  
 

I bought an aluminum 5 inch pulley on eBay also for a replacement of the original. 
 

The last pic not mine but shows sickle setup on a tractor.

[Lane Ranger 10,947]

Finally finishing up on a 42inch sickle bar mower I rebuilt for Rodney Burger (lawnman_56) .  
 

This was a rusty one but all new knife blades, bolts and paint.  Still need to put idler pulley on the frame plate but the plate has new bearings and 3/4 inch shaft.  I used a new shaft with keyway for all new or rebuilt pulleys ( the common 1623 Wheel Horse idler pulley).

 

I may mount on my B-80 tractor to see who it performs.

 

One of my last jobs was the U shaped rear sickle support bar.

 

I used K & W Knock Her Loose Penetrate from NAPA on the rear sickle U shaped frame bar to make it moveable again.