Old Farm Implement? Sickle Bar Tooth

**umrgolf** · Jan 30, 2012, 01:28 PM

Found near a Civil War camp but not sure what it is... thinking post-war?

**Broken knee** · Jan 30, 2012, 01:33 PM

It's a sickle bar tooth. HH

Broken Knee

**kuger** · Jan 30, 2012, 02:05 PM

Yep

**umrgolf** · Jan 30, 2012, 02:13 PM

Thanks

**Mackaydon** · Jan 30, 2012, 02:41 PM

A sickle bar tooth it may be, but it seems to heavy and thick for that; not a cutting blade. To me, it reminds me more of a tooth to a spike (or tine) harrow from 'back in the day', pulled in tamdem with many others, behind a tractor to break up clods of dirt in the tilling process.

Don........

**Bigcypresshunter** · Jan 30, 2012, 03:07 PM

I dont know myself but they have been posted here before and the sickle bar mower ID was accepted.

**timekiller** · Jan 30, 2012, 03:14 PM

That's what they are,they go on the old horse drawn type sickle bars.Found them myself & have seen them around up close here still all together.

**BosnMate** · Jan 30, 2012, 10:17 PM

Actually they are called guards, the knife blades rivet to a bar and travel back and forth between the guards to cut hay. The individual knife blades are called sections. If you run through a gopher mound or a mouse or bird nest and it hangs on the guard, then you got to back up, lift the bar, get off and clean it off, get on lower it down ahead of your cut unless you have a power takeoff on a tractor, horse pulled the sections were driven by the wheel, so to keep if from plugging you had to have them going real good before you hit the hay you want to cut. Trust me, I've been there and done that. The rotating mowers they use now don't plug, you can run through cut hay or most anything but a wad of wire, and just keep going. Those came out just at the end of my farming career.