Sickle Blade Sharpener [Rescue]
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This is a 1901 patented McCormick-Deering sharpener/grinder for sickles on a mower. All parts are present and nothing is broken! Even the stone is in great shape.
Thanks to:
farmalldanzil erwin ( / janet0dan ) hrz4x4 ( / hrz4x4 )
Farm Farm ( / @windrowfarm )
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My new fav channel.
Thanks! Any tool you want to see next?
Yes, I will definite get to that.
vanship pilot yea its this channel or diresta
Hand Tool Rescue don't know if you watch blacksmith Chandler Dickinson or not, but he made a sharpener for the scythe.
He had a hard time figuring out what the degree of the sharpener should be. After watching this, definitely see how difficult it would be and why this tool had to be a great time saver!
Awesome video as always!!!
Hand Tool Rescue also have you thought about making a patreon page? The work you do is amazing and I'm sure people will support you!
I would love to see you go back and re-rescue this sharpener, with all of the techniques and tools you have added over the last three years.
Me too, compared to how he does things now, this seems like 'half' a job,
Couldn't agree more Tisha.
I agree this looks like he's at work not having fun lol.
I'm starting to recognise the age of the video based on the tools and techniques he uses. 😅
While it could have used a soak in Evapo Rust (he still did a great job of cleaning it) but the keeping the original paint was a big plus to me. Still Eric already has his time lapse videography and editing that is his trademark pretty much perfected by this time.
Why can't I hear any cussing when those cotter pins weren't coming out??
Thanks for adding the demo of it sharpening the sickle blade, I was having a hard visualizing it working....
I saw no sickle sharpened.
KR try watching the entire vid...at 12:19 there's a demo of a sickle sharpener in action....
This is a sickle my friend!
www.google.co.uk/search?q=sickle&rlz=1CATAAB_enGB665GB667&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=942&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA0equ45zSAhVK7RQKHWduAqsQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=mEN8bbDCUGMFjM:
Still no sickle? Sickle sharpener yes...
That google says that that is a sickle doesnt mean that thats the only thing called a sickle..
I've been watching your videos for a while. I like them better when you make the things look like new again and working
Seems that he hadn't quite gotten his 'format' back then yet.
It's cool going back to the start of your channel and seeing how much you've grown as a content creator. You are my favorite restoration creator.
Maple syrup and evapo-rust 100% Canadian made. Keep up the good work Eric. 👏 thank you for the content. When I can I'll join you on patreon.
cool for some reason when i read sickle blade i had the image of a old fashioned scythe type thing even though i was i was raised on a farm and had seen those sickle bar attachments for tractors. I feel pretty stupid now.
I did to. Minus the farm experience.
A Sickle is a hand tool with a sharp curved blade either on a short handle or a long handle.
Tadfafty McCormick made tractors.
Too fast. Made me sea sick. had to stop watching.
How did it make you sea sick if this is not the sea?
Take it all apart JUST wash the parts? That's not restoration that's just cleaning
I expected buffs and repaint since disassembly was done so serious :)
Уc меня тоже есть такой станок. Собираюсь отреставрировать правда точильный камень плохой . И не знаю где взять
Nice restoration. I'm glad you didn't repaint, looks great with the aged patina. I have enjoyed many of your videos since I found your channel. I really like the intro you have on your newer videos. Reminds me of the cheesy sitcoms from the 80s.
Made many a 3 legged dog those old sickle mowers
farmer jackson oh yea! Dangerous as all hell!
Don't forget Bumble Bee's and Yellow Jacket in ground nests, that sickle mower would really piss them off.
My dad had a dog named Bandit, was informally renamed Bandage after an experience with one of these.
dudes always drinking a gallon of coffee before working.
Very interesting to see the whole story from teardown to final assembly then used on the job cutting grass. In 1953 I was lucky enough to learn to drive a McCormick-Deering kerosene powered tractor. It was used to mow the fairways at the local golf course where we lived. In that setting, the typical reel-type mowers were used on grass, and scrubby edges got the sickle-type side-mower. Great fun for an 8yr old, impossible today with Safety Nannies running amok.
We cut 8 acres of Bromegrass using a Farmall Cub with a belly mount sicklebar. Then we gathered it into winrows with a dump-rake that had large STEEL spoke wheels. (I sat on the seat and ran the dump lever. After it dried we pulled the rows together and made haystacks, which we sold on site. Those were good times.
Dude, seriously, slow down the video!!!!
Hey doing domething YT can do?
Nice work! subscribed!
I've been watching a few of your videos recently and I've noticed you struggle a little bit with the cottorpins, might be worth investing in a set of cottorpins pullers.
Essential Craftsman sent me. subbed.
Me Too
Same here! Essential Craftsman and Hand Tool Rescue are my favorite channels lately.
Well now I'm gonna go check out essential craftsman. I'll tell em hand tool rescue sent me.
Ditto :)
im loving this channel, im new. and while i realize that sometimes it cant be helped i love that this time you didnt strip off all the old paint and patina and kept it the way it was. it shows the age. tho you couldnt help yourself qwith the handle i see..lol
well fan of your channel now so thanks for the content.
I look forward to watching all your vids.
I’ve been binge watching all your videos. They’re awesome. This one just reminded me that I just saw one of these sickle sharpeners on Craigslist. Halfway tempted to get it and attempt to clean it up after watching this.
Amatör bir video olmuş HTR Reis. İlk videolarından biri sanırım zira sponsorun bile yok anladığım kadarıyla. Emeğine sağlık yinede Reis. En azından parçaları boyayabilirmişsin.
He really ruined this episode with the high speed idea, really sucked
All his vids are like that. I like it. Not a fan of watching a 2 hour video personally...
All I had to see was the name of your channel! 😆 👍👍👍 Good stuff! Happy to be your 100th sub!
Haha thank you! I owe you one for life now...
From 100 to 57k in 5 months. Well done!
Back in the 60's a guy made a sickle sharpener. It had a narrow flat table that held a sickle. He had a washing machine electric motor driving a rock like that hung down on swing arms and floated back and forth. It had two flat metal hold down clamps with a high leverage foot pedal to release it. The spring was off some old cultivator I think. We baled about 250,000 square bales every year and would drop off maybe a half dozen sickles every evening and pick up the ones he had sharpened for us. He also sharpened sickles for two or three other custom balers. I think he charged a dollar a sickle for a 7 ft sickle.
Great Videos! Keep them coming!
Hello! Very interesting channel! Good luck with rescue!
SUPER COOL VID.....I got an ....alas...incomplete one of these last weekend at an auction in south central Kansas........missing the crank handle, grinding wheel, and a few other parts, but only paid a dollar for it......this makes me want to fully rebuild mine.....any advice where to find the missing parts, without paying an arm and leg.....and also.....what's the resale value of this rebuilt little gem ?.........THANKS A MILLION FOR POSTING !!!!!!!........
Don't know if you'll see a comment on a video this old, but thought you'd want to know....watching this video triggered my first seizure in 40 years. Not joking, and it surprised me. I now know to avoid extended "fast-forward" sequences. Haven't noticed this sort of thing on any of your other videos. Just thought you'd want to know.
people usedto peen sicles and sythes....and many recomended forge hammering chisel bits as well.
Hadn't ever seen a sharpener for a sickle bar mower before, very interesting. Last clip of example mowing, guy had no idea what he was doing. Sickle bar is only useful for tall upright grass and mower needs to be up off the ground
shoulda sandblasted on ultra fine grain then powerwash...primer and repaint...just my opinion...cool channel though 😉
Had the identical unit on our farm (McCormick-Deering), sharpening the mower blades was last job before retiring for the evening, plus fueling the tractors, and greasing equipment. That stone needs to be trued, so it reaches to top of the V on the sickle blade sections. One question: Why did you dismantle everything, could have reached same finish by using a can of brake clean, a scraper, wire brush, and some rags, didn't replace, repair, weld, repaint anything, not even cotter pins?
ORJİNAL SES GOOD
Anyone else surprised that things that come from around the 1900s actually have colour ? For some reason (well, duh, movies from that time period obviously), I always imagine them to be black and white as well.
How does anything get that dirty? Yes, it is old, but it's not like the thing needed to be oiled a lot nor that it would likely be found in a place where grim is naturally generated. It looks like it was almost baked on. How would that happen over the ages?
Otherwise, the video speed is much too fast, and you could have just pressure washed it without disassembly. This is just a cleaning, and not a very good one. You've learned a LOT since you made this one.
I'm glad you've smoothed out your production style over the years... I need a xanax after watching this! :-P
i love the ring of those old cast gears.
This was a HORRIBLE restore. After you restored it, you should have soaked it in either vinegar or some kind of degreaser for at least several hours to break it apart even more. Paint removing is next, followed by sand blasting it, then you heat treat whatever needs to be, and repaint. Finally if the handle is okay, a little sanding and then recoating.
I am forever trying to figure out the oils he uses. Interestingly enough he more often than not uses WD40 as penetrating oil (in later videos he buys it in bulk and uses a spray bottle) and 3 in 1 or 30 weight non-detergent oil. I have had great results with chain saw chain oil.
Love the videos, if i could add a little criticism, take your time and work on painting and cleaning the machines/tools a little more throughly, a restoration is to bring it back to the closest possible place back to original, you are wizard at disassembling but would like to see more effort in the paint and cleaning. As for this video i was kinda disappointed that this wasn't a restoration at all, the demo peice wss closer to what i was expecting. Thats just my 2 sense, regardless still a big fan and love the videos!
I know I have said this before but you have got to slow these things down to normal speed. I would rather watch 30 minutes at normal than 10 or 15 minutes at mind numbing speed!
sickle mowers work great but so dangerous... one old neighbour had his dogs run out in front of it...
Had to give this one a thumbs down, the restoration wasn't up to your usual level. I didn't see you fix the bent screw, and no paint removal or sand blasting. Looks like you could have done the same thing with a cheap pressure washer without having to disassemble it. I did like the demonstration at the end.
I often wondered while watching you disassemble something that is either complex by design or perhaps overly engineered, that you thought to yourself that the person who invented it should have had their ass kicked for coming up with such an elaborate and intricate contraption?
You should just buy a barrel of WD-40 and at the start of each project just let the piece marinate in it for a few hours prior to disassembly. 😅
Mate...excellent...good to see original paint left on..to many good things get lost under coats of glossy enamel...might as well buy a Chinese one if you paint it again...original patina..tips hat
My father has an antique sickle bar trimmer. I always found it slightly terrifying. I just assumed the blades are always hand sharpen with a file.
For anyone interested in sickles and scythes, here's a video for ya. He sharpens it by peening it in a little rounded anvil - awesome: th-cam.com/video/VVn1kiZnldQ/w-d-xo.html
It's pretty obvious you have no idea what you're doing. Leaving old grease and crud on the item. No new paint or repaired/replaced pieces. I am done with this channel.
Restoration? Basically was just disassemble,wash and reassembled,no more paint and nice finish?
There is Zeus, god of the sky, Poseidon, god of the sea, and Hand Tool Rescue, god of WD-40
i've been to several barn sales and garage sales and have never found anything as in good quality as these tools are. one sycthe i picked up, the blade broke in half instantly. where do i find tools like these that are actually rescuable? is it just luck or is there certain things to stay away from?
Can ya show how the krackinrod goes on the snibblebiff again ya know next to the dohickey ? Lol nice very nice 👍🏻
Вы ребятки ни одной вещи до конца не доделываете. Ну разобрали, ну отмыли, иногда ободрали, иногда нет, иногда перекрасили кое как, иногда нет, редко когда втулки поменяли, чаще просто собирание. И вроде работает, но все как то кривой и косо, да и кое как. Короче туфту вы гоните, а не реставрацию, гараже р-на коленный ремонт, на кое как. Да и ключи ваши разводные полное говно.
It hurts my feelings when you use not hammers as hammers lol JK. Really enjoy these vids, they're relaxing
COOL IT,,,,, you look like your in the middle of pulling some ones teeth, wow!!!
To the critics; GET A LIFE
Some different from these videos compared to your newer videos!! But still a good watching well done
Come to Ontario we've got a sickle bar mower for our farmall super H you can come sharpen lol
When you are wire wheeling don't use gloves.
At all
Greater change of getting your hands caught in it or what?
I agree. Revist this redo it. Plus the speed up looked like stop motion. Hard to watch.
You ever thought about redoing some of your old jobs and redoing them. You knownsome of the ones that you didn't complete a full resto on
When someone tells you to buy one and thankfully "hand tool rescue" has a video and decided not too as the stone is concave and has been used for other things...Ill just swap out the blades with new ones as have serated teeth lol
Industrial Revolution.....Gears and springs and cranks and cams and links and toggles and such, combined with a somewhat "ostentatious" flair incorporated into the castings celebrating the new era of machines............I love the old stuff....
+Ima Tumor I call it the "gizmocity" factor.
Beautifully restored!
He should have soaked the parts in mineral spirits. Never saw anybody use water on grease....
People still use mowers that look like that old McCormick one in the video. I wonder whether the sharpener would work on the new blades?
It looked cool but it wasn't practical how can it cut wood when the blade is moving in the wrong direction can you make a video of it sawing wood ?
you amaze me, I watch your channel all the time and STILL have not heard that first cuss word...I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT! By far my favorite channel, I can sit watch for hours. Thanks for the vids
Haha thank you!
Your videos are therapeutic to watch - congrats on another job, well done.
Kayinfso Here I started watching them at half or quarter speed. It's a little bit jittery, but it feels more like you're hanging out, building stuff :p a little less frantic.
А зачем ставить старые шплинты? Это же расходный материал и лучше поставить новые.
better off just power washing it at a carwash and then spraying it with penetrating oil
That would quiet right down with super heavy lithium grease instead of 3 in 1.
Even if I was able to get it apart,I would never be able to put it back together. A skill I lack. lol
We had a Massey Ferguson sickle mower on the farm.
Never saw the sharpener.
how did they go about designing these ? Pure theory and technical drawings or a combination of this and running to the dye maker ?
Bro I love your work and your videos.. I really do. But no more than what you did there, I believe I would've just left it together and pressure washed it.. but that's just me and I'm lazy like that... Lol. But great work man. But you are bad ass and really know your s**t so there's probably something going on idk about.. great great job bro, Please keep it up!!!
Thank you!
6:30 Been there, done that. Using my -wife- EX body wash. It smelled good too.
Is it just me or is this one played back a little too fast...? Please slow it down a bit:-)
Why don't you add a new paint or make them shine? We are like crows, we like shiny things.
I would personlly strip the paint and then repaint it in the original color.
What, no sandblasting?
Also could you slow down the filming a tiny bit?
Just tossing this out there. This would make a great "re-visit" for a full resto?
wd 40 gets your old shit apart ( new commercial ) XDDD
I've actually used one of these. Worked! Not well but better than a file.
I must say that Id bet that you refer back to the videos to see how the heck you get some of those old contraptions back together?
Being a tinkerer myself with a 30 year career as a heavy equipment/diesel engine mechanic might I suggest that you need some better tools? You don't need to go out and spend a ton of money BUT Craigslist, yard sales, estate sales and Pawn shops can yield a boatload of tools. Trust me you can never have too many tools.
+MISTERComaToes Oh I am slowing getting everything I need!
Hate to say this, but a pressure washer would make your life a lot easier. Done a lot of tool clean up and restore (and not as a hobby, work on a farm, be amazed at the old stuff still in use), and its your best friend. Other than watching you work too hard, love the stuff you do. Enjoy! and Great videos.
Thanks! Yes, I 100% need to fix mine. Most of these videos were made in the winter though, so pressure washing is unlikely.
I did'nt see any use of a degreaser , you dont like useing them or just did'nt have any?
Thump down for the annoying background noise.
Если один человек собрал, другой завсегда разобрать сумеет
i have a sickle bar mower im working on fun fun bought it and a parts mower
Aha. I was thinking of the hand-held blade found on the Soviet Flag.
I think roaming the plains and hunting was a better idea, but white people are creative
I got two of these mowers and a ground drive farmall mower mule pulled or small tractor can pull it
It looks like you use a lot of WD-40. Here's a money-saving tip: Buy a non-aerosol spray bottle of it off of Amazon or eBay, and buy a gallon of it from the blue or orange store. You have to get the WD-40 spray bottle. Regular spray bottles don't like it, even the ones that they sell right next to the gallon of WD-40 at the blue and orange stores. Online was the only place I could find the non-aerosol spray bottle.
That is exactly what I use in the later videos.
Maybe I should watch all of the videos before I comment.
This want even a restoration you just cleaned it did you not want to take the time and do it right??
This is less of a restoration and more just taking it apart and cleaning it. Seems to be a trend as of late. I had had enough as soon as you got done with the wash and then immediately started re-assembly. Not what I expected. I expected a like new product, not just a 20 minute wash session.
Is a rescue, not a restoration.
just read the title first before commenting
Because its not a restoration. This is the third comment I’ve read saying the same thing. #readthetitle
cool machine, just a little bit to close-up for this speed on my opinion.