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I picked up this sign the other day and was wondering if anyone has ever seen one before. I am guess the metal arm coming out attached to a pole or another bracket? Any guess on age too would be great I believe it is pretty old.
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Looks like a Farmer made Sickle Flag
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DB is real close I believe on this, I don't recall the correct term for it, but it acts as a divider board for a sickle mower. As the fresh cut hay falls, the rod lays it away from the standing hay. It mounts at the outside end of sickle bar. Co-Op was a line of farm machinery. Hope this helps. Raymond
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For a piece of machinery. Many companies advertised on the wood arm. I was at a hardware sale couple years ago in Iowa. They had many nos ones for sale there. McCormick ect. No coop ones though. Cant remember the piece of machinery it went on.
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I think Co Op was a tractor from Canada?
Do a Google search.
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DB is real close I believe on this, I don't recall the correct term for it, but it acts as a divider board for a sickle mower. As the fresh cut hay falls, the rod lays it away from the standing hay. It mounts at the outside end of sickle bar. Co-Op was a line of farm machinery. Hope this helps. Raymond Fer a boy that lives in Iowa, that's a Good Explanation!  [my 1st 10yrs were on a Mo. Farm]
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Yes, CO-OP Implements or C.I.L. up here, was a very popular farm implement company. I remember we had a 1950's combine when I was quite young. I agree with Raymond and Dick in that it looks like that would be off a sickle mower. We had a co-operative farm organization a few miles from our farm back home at Kyle, Saskatchewan, and that was the only farm machinery they used.
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We called them dividers, the wood stick would help when mowing taller hay. Wooded ones broke when you had to back up when the mower plugged if you didn't raise the mower bar.
That one looks thick compared to the ones I remember.
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We here in the western Pa. hills called them "swath boards" on our old mowing machines.
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I'm not a farmer...but I believe around me in central Wisconsin they call them "mow" boards.
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We here in the western Pa. hills called them "swath boards" on our old mowing machines. Sam, Weren't all your mowing sickles powered by Horses? In Southern Mo. they used Mules.
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