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A Saturday morning tutorial - only no work today! 
 

As the esteemed Squonk says “ Lane must have a crapload of weeds”! 
 

 

Yes so that justifies me buying the Cadillac of sickle bar tools for a used VW price!   The Johnson Sickle Server is the tool most farmers used in their shop to repair or replace knife blades.  
 

A new one costs $496.   New is painted blue.  Old ones are painted red and built the same of heavy steel and plates are hardened steel.   Punch and rounded rivet head hardened steel too.  Plus you can still get replacement parts .  There is a flat head rivet punch if you don’t like rounded heads.  Tool adjusts to removing 3 inch or two inch knife blades on knife section.

 

 

I have wanted one of these for years but even for my “crapload of weeds” I could not justify.  But I am still working on sickles so just go with the flow!   I also ordered a new rivet punch from Johnson this am.  Mind looks worn or broken. 
 

 

Mine came from South Dakota and guy shipping must have had a sense of humor as he marked it “Fragile”!   Weighs about forty pounds. 
 

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dclarke

I borrowed one of these from a buddy a few years ago to replace the knives on my sickle. Pretty slick how they work. 

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squonk
12 minutes ago, Lane Ranger said:

A Saturday morning tutorial - only no work today! 
 

As the esteemed Squonk says “ Lane must have a crapload of weeds”! 
 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judging by those Sickle toofies I would also add "Big Honkin!" :banana-linedance:

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ebinmaine

Very interesting!!!

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Lane Ranger
15 minutes ago, squonk said:

Judging by those Sickle toofies I would also add "Big Honkin!" :banana-linedance:

Yes guards or too firs are roughy but I got some from a 1940’s JARI sickle that should be good replacements.  Several Ard solid brass which I never saw before! 

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pfrederi

Lane Where did you get additional rivet punches from a couple of mine are missing/broken

 

 

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ranger

Nice bits of kit. This is all I have. 😢😢47C60F00-F4D6-4EA4-8069-64C73601A000.jpeg.7ef2b8537071a66089932270714ba1cb.jpeg

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Lane Ranger
2 hours ago, pfrederi said:

Lane Where did you get additional rivet punches from a couple of mine are missing/broken

 

 

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Paul  :  Here you go the link to the replacement  rivet head pieces.   $15.95 each.

 

https://jfmco.com/category/sickle-servicer-tool-parts

 

 

 

 

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Lane Ranger

Easy to remove the rivet pin and rivet head setter on the Johnson Sickle Servicer tool!

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Lane Ranger

I received my new Johnson Sickle Servicer rivet punch today.  I went to work removing some of the 42 old rivets from the Wheel Horse sickle knife I am restoring.


iam going to save the old broken punch and make a flathead rivet pin.  Just going to grind it down flat.

 

After I finish removing all the old rivets I will begin installing the new knife blades and rivets.

 

 

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