finger bar/sickle bar mower

jfmck20

hi all.
i was wondering if any of you fine farming people on here had any old finger-bar mowers that your thinking of scraping. i am looking for a couple of them maybe 4 or 5 if its possible. all im looking for is the mowing bar itself (fingers) and the knife bar. i don't necessarily need the knives intact.
if people decided to donate them i would be very grateful. i am in the meath area but im willing to travel to collect them.
as i will be experimenting with them i don't want to spend a fortune on them only to find out that im wasting my time.
kind regards
jfmck20

Country lad

jfmck20 wrote: »

hi all.
i was wondering if any of you fine farming people on here had any old finger-bar mowers that your thinking of scraping. i am looking for a couple of them maybe 4 or 5 if its possible. all im looking for is the mowing bar itself (fingers) and the knife bar. i don't necessarily need the knives intact.
if people decided to donate them i would be very grateful. i am in the meath area but im willing to travel to collect them.
as i will be experimenting with them i don't want to spend a fortune on them only to find out that im wasting my time.
kind regards
jfmck20

Am looking for a blade for a Massey Ferguson finger bar in Kilkenny Carlow area

limo_100

Country lad wrote: »

Am looking for a blade for a Massey Ferguson finger bar in Kilkenny Carlow area

what do you use it for in this day and age?? I have a Ferguson one and a piearse one there both sitting side by side in the shed for 15years +

Can you not get spare parts anymore?

jimini0

limo_100 wrote: »

what do you use it for in this day and age?? I have a Ferguson one and a piearse one there both sitting side by side in the shed for 15years +

Can you not get spare parts anymore?

I sold my finger bar
mower last year didn't realise how handy it was until this morning. Was topping some fields with open drains and a river along one side. You cant top close enough to the drain the fingerbar was a mighty machine for those jobs

Muckit

Until you caught a pigtail stake and broke the drive rod!

jimini0

Muckit wrote: »

Until you caught a pigtail stake and broke the drive rod!

Not a pigtail stake. It was a half roll of bull wire hiding in the briars.
I got a new rod made. Then I stupidly sold it😢

Bleating Lamb

As a matter of interest did it cost much to get the new rod made?

jimini0

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

As a matter of interest did it cost much to get the new rod made?

A friend made it. He is a furniture maker so had the oak and machinery. The hardest part was getting the holes drilled and aligned
I seem them advertised in England for £40

tanko

Saw a neighbour topping with a ferguson 20 and a finger bar mower last week, there's a lovely noise of those old mowers in full flow.

Base price

A neighbour of ours, all of 91 years of age, tops his land some of which would have outcrops of rock with a 35x and a finger bar every year.
He also cuts the long grass either side of the cross roads near his house so that drivers can see.

Muckit

Great job for that l'd say as won't throw it out onto the road