Sickle mower tractor

How about this one? Its a Farmall 450. 3 point hitch. Runs. $1100. Should run that 9' sickle mower.



Wide front is a 300. Don't recall if its a 3 point. It's same price.

If they will run and operate that is a good deal on both of those tractors,buy both put the mower on one and the baler on the other.Your hay making just received a big upgrade.

On the 450 gas, be sure you have an extra gas can along, you will not get through the day with the gas in the main tank if you're gonna run it all day. Lots of horses under the hood & they love gasoline. That tractor is more rare than a SM TA, way less #'s made & often overlooked as to collectiability. Most powerful 4 cylinder row crop tractor IH ever made. The 300 is a 3rd generation H with LPTO, good hydraulics,TA & fast hitch, if ordered originally. It will mow & run a bailer all day on less than 10 gallons of gas.

Are you sure that 450 has a 3 point hitch? It has ALL the parts of an IH Fast Hitch. From 1965 thru 1968 I but a couple thousand hours on a 450 exactly like that one, except ours didn't have that greenish tint from mold/mildew. Plowed, IH 4-14's both Fast Hitch and Case pull type plow because everybody was pulling Midwest plow narrows with their plows, made the first pass over plowed ground silky smooth. Could get 20 acres plowed in a good day, and several trips back to the gas barrel. 12 ft 4 inch Kewanee disk with 20 inch ripple blades no problem sunk in to the hubs in plowed ground in 3rd gear, even ran in 4th gear, 6-1/2 mph disking corn stalks in our flatter ground ahead of the plow. Had an IH #461 frt mounted 4-38" cultivator I went over 120 acres of corn 3 times with every year.
The ONLY problem I see mowing hay with a 450 gas is that running 1400-1450 rpm pulling a 9 ft sickle mower you will use over 3 gallons, maybe 3-1/2 gallons of gas an hour. Maybe idling down to 1000-1200 rpm you could get down to 2-1/2 to 3 gallons per hour, but don't be surprised if you can't. It could easily run 2 or 3 mowers, it's the gutsiest 55 hp tractor ever made! Plowing with the 21 gallon gas tank full, they will burn between 4 and 5 gallons per hour, so every 4-5 hours you need gas.Cultivating I'd shift up and throttle down and could easily run all day on a tank. Tough to do that with pto equipment.

Do they run? The 300 is far more nimble is operation, the 450 is a horse. If both run and their TAs and PTOs operate, I think the choice is what you need to do most. I really like both but for different reasons. Jim

(quoted from post at 06:34:24 06/18/20)The 300 is far more nimble is operation, the 450 is a horse.

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The 450 with the narrow front will turn circles inside the 300 with the wide front. So much so that you can easily damage equipment by turning too short.

Either of these tractors will be a nice upgrade for your haying operation over what you have now.

Are you sure the tractor with the WFE is a 300? The grill is SCREAMING 400/450 at me. The three slots above the cultivator stay rod holes means 400/450, 300/350 only had 2 slots above the holes.
The 300 would easily run your mower AND your baler. Not sure about a 300 running mowing hay or baling all day on 10 gallons of gas, must work short days, they burn 2 gal/hour, 17 gallon tank. I could mow, rake, and bale 20 acres of hay without worrying about gas with my Super H, but I would gas up first thing before going to the field. When I chopped corn stalks, lot longer days, I'd gas up first thing before going to the field, then at Noon, then I could run to 8-9 PM, 45-50 acres/day.

the VAC will be ten times handier than that will be but sure it will run a mower,,

That's a pair of 400's. They'll cut with a 9' bar easy.... but they're gas piggys. Maybe if you're looking at a twin cutter bar mower from Rowse, you would want those. Otherwise, that power is better utilized pulling heavy tillage or running a feed grinder. Something to put all those horses to good use.

Mike

Kevin, just come borrow one of mine. You might get spoiled running a diesel.

I found the one you need

Any of your fords or the Vac would be handier for a mower. The 450 would be much better for the haybine and baler tho.

Looks like a fast hitch on that 450. When I was a kid we had a new side mount sickle mower on an M with a conditioner hooked to the draw bar. That was the slickest set up I ever ran, don't remember what gear I used but it was probably too fast. Those big four cylinders are hard on gas though.

I would jump on it in a heartbeat!

Lee little. Those Farmalls are in GA. Near Macon. Don't recall where you are located. Guy has a heck of a Farmall bone yard too. I bought new old stock brakes for my A from him. Going back for a set for our cub. At $25 a set...........