The blade I think I have

Carm · Postby **Carm** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:49 pm

Ok it looks like I have the McCormick Deering Blade (according to the pics on Rudi's server) It looks like all I need to set it up on the belly is the forward lifting rod and the little attachment thingy that goes on the blade for the rod. Whaddya all think?

Jim Hudson · Postby **Jim Hudson** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:57 pm

I could not see pics

Carm · Postby **Carm** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:59 pm

Thanks Jim, I had it bass ackwards. But eventually I figured it all out after uploading my thick skull with the picture tutorial :oops:

Jim Hudson · Postby **Jim Hudson** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:59 pm

Now his are showing?????

Postby **Bigdog** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:09 pm

Carm, a little flat stock with a couple of 90 degree bends and a lift rod and you'll be in business!

Carm · Postby **Carm** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:20 pm

I was gonna make the lift attachment, I guess JP's would have the rod. I could probably make a rod, but I think I like to have an actual rod. TM tractor only listed the aft rod. BTW, This is the McCormic Deering Blade and not a 54 with missing parts right?

Postby **Bigdog** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:36 pm

Carm, it looks like from the pictures that there are holes at the front of the main frame. It looks like a 54 with parts missing. It will still mid-mount and work well.

Postby **Rudi** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:41 pm

Carm:

It appears identical to my blade which is definitely a McCormick Deering Leveling and Grader Blade.

Course, after I get done, it will be a Cub-54, but that is still a couple months away. Need to get healed first.

The rod is 5/8" stock, 24" centre to centre of each bend. Each bend - one one each end is a 90 degree bend and it is 1-1/2" in length. I have a pic of how George Willer set his up. Just gotta look for it.

Will post them when I find them. They are in my computer some where :roll:

Carm · Postby **Carm** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:05 pm

Wow, this gets deeper....So, I can turn this into a 54a with money and time....Since i do not plan to use it often, I can just leave it.....And now I can probably make all the parts from common stock. I could still buy the rod, but maybe I will try and make one since there are dimensions. hmmm decisions decisions

Postby **Don McCombs** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:18 pm

I agree with BD. It looks like a 54 with parts missing to me. The McCormick Deering blade has three adjustment holes in the brackets on the back of the blade. The 54 has five. The blade in Carm's photos has five. I believe TM Tractor has all the parts needed to make it complete.

Postby **John *.?-!.* cub owner** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:22 pm

Rudi, I hate to disagree, but I believe that is a 54 blade. The McCormick Deering blade doesn't have the brackets under the swivel frame to keep it from dropping down, and uses a bolt in the hole where you set the rignt and left angle to both hold the angle and keep the rear of the bracket up.

Postby **Jim Becker** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:27 pm

It is definitely the later Cub-54 or Cub-54A type blade. You can look at the pictures on the TM web site. He also has a reproduction spring pressure assembly.

Carm · Postby **Carm** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:49 pm

thanks guys, I guess I'll just have to suck it up and part with cash if I want it to be right

Marion(57 Loboy) · Postby **Marion(57 Loboy)** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:49 pm

Looks zactly like mine, with the parts missing to mount it in the front.

I took all that stuff off and fabbed a mounting bar that goes between the final drive brackets on the Loboy.

I go in forward gear and drag out the gravel in the drive-works great! Does an adequate job the same way with snow; since we don't get much.

Jerry56 · Postby **Jerry56** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:57 am

Looks like a combo a 54a frame and a 54 blade.
The older frame has a bracket in the center for the lift "rod" the newer one has holes on either side of the bracket for the lift "arms".
The older one doesn't have the brackets under the frame to hold it in place as it swivels, and as stated before the older frame doesn't have the brackets under the swivel for the angle bracket to keep it from falling.
So I guess you have the best of both worlds, you can get the parts for the newer 54a blade frames at TM tractor, that's where I got mine.
Jerry

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The blade I think I have

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