Need help identifying these

[gutted72]

My father-in-law has these two old horse drawn pieces sitting in the middle of some trees. I need some help, I don't really know what they are for one and the other thing is, how old are they?

He wants to pull the wheels off them and scrap the rest, just wanted to see if I can get some info on them and see if they may have any value other than scrap metal.

Pictures 1-3 are of a hay cutter and pictures 4-7 are of some kind of seed planter I think.

 

[The Cobbler]

not into vintage farm equipment, but I guarantee there is more value to sell them than there is in scrap price. people looking for lawn art would love these pcs.

 

[930dreamer]

The one pic has International Harvester and Deering on it.

 

[wrenchguy]

deering horse drawn hay mower and whats left of a corn planter

 

[cowboy73]

The first one is a sickle mower It looks like most of it is there. The second piece, I believe is a planter of some some sort, possibly a corn planter. It's missing the hopper box.

 

[cowboy73]

As far as value, people will give you more than the 2 cents a pound for scrap steel to use them as yard art.

 

[jkwilson]

The Amish still use those mowers, so castings may have more than scrap value to them.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Seems like all the people who think they are valuable are the people who don't want to buy them. You may find someone to pay more than scrap value but it will take a long time to find someone that will pay a lot more than scrap value. Seems like the wheels are the most popular parts as decorations.
Best bet for selling them whole is at a threshermans, plowing, steam engine or antique tractor event.

 

[gutted72]

Thanks everyone, any guesses as to the years of these ?

Cowbow73 - He has the hopper boxes sitting in the shed.

 

[hunterguy86]

You might post these up on yesterdaystractors.com forum. The folks over there might be able to give you additional info if you don't find what you are looking for here.

 

[cowboy73]

Well according to a fellow on the Yesterday's Tractor site, the IHC circle logo was roughly after 1909. I would bet the planter is likely around the same vintage. So roughly about a hundred years old. I'd drag them out the woods and set them up buy the road and put a for sale sign on them. There might be 50 bucks worth of steel there. You could surely sell them for more than that. Some of those sickle mowers bring around $500+ by themselves. If you sold them for more than $50, you'd make a profit. It'd cost $20 in gas just to haul them to the scrap yard.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Its good that you live in the south where those were not reduced to just rust flakes in the 70 years or so they have been sitting. Good find, someone will want them for yard art or Amish to use them.

 

[gutted72]

Cowboy 73,

Since I don't know anything about farm stuff, would these be implements? or something else?

Is there somewhere on these pieces that would have a model number or some way of identifying them?

I am having a hell of a time finding any info on that sickle mower. I have yet to find a picture of a mower (something to compare against) that has the ratchet part and this type of gear box. Closest thing I came up with is a Deering high lift sickle mower and that was based off the type of handles, gear box.

So, still begs the question of year?