Cunningham Walk Behind Sickle Mower

[OldIronLvr]

Hello all just picked me up a 1950's ish Cunningham Walk Behind Sickle mower. Its goin to need some TLC for sure but definately a good canidate for a restore. Just noticed this moring that one of the tires has a whole in the side wall , thinken might be time for a rubber patch job on that one since it already has a tube in it.

Left Hand view

Nice shot of the company logo still showen.

Right Hand View

Shroud is a little ripe had a big old nest in there.

Wow Only a stuck, not stuck very hard mind you Exhaust valve.

[mrf-engines]

looks like you got a steal. That will make a great addition to the display this year. Save the head gasket if it is any good, they are close to the briggs N's but not quite. I had to modify mine. I do have another shrowd for the engine, just needs some of the dents taken out, but it doesnt have any holes in it. I am going up the parents today, I will snap a pic of the cultivators I got up there see if it is anything you may want.

[JKWIDENER]

looks like i may see this one running in may when im there? Good job on finding that one...

[JKWIDENER]

You might want to check out this site on cunningham products... http://www.s363.com/cunningham/

[Brian D]

SWEET PIECE U PICKED UP,, I MIGHT JUST HAVE SOME TALL GRASS ,HERE IN bUCKEYE , U CAN TRY THAT OUT ON MIKE

[OldIronLvr]

Time for an update after a couple weeks of tinkering got the engine all running...

[Emma]

I just picked up our Cunningham sickle mower today. It is model MA serial #1878. Does your mower have a Briggs & Stratton engine ? Farmy Mine does. The tall grass is safe no more!!

[The Bandit]

You spelt exaughst rong farmmy

[JKWIDENER]

You spelt exaughst rong farmmy

Looks like its spelled correctly to me?, But, you did spell "rong" Wrong.... lmao

[The Bandit]

[OldIronLvr]

Just an update on the mower its allive mowed my first patch of weeds down tonight with it

[Mizz Boss]

Hum nice mower there Mikey. Hum I think that is mine not yours hehe right?



WELCOME HOME MIZZ BOSS , now straighten him out

[Brian D]

bump

[RichK]

Here is what I picked up last week, a Cunningham model MB with a Cunningham model EA engine:

http://s426.photobucket.com/albums/pp346/littlegreentractor/



The engine turns over and I do feel air comming through the muffler. The gas tank has surface rust but is not too bad. It looks possible to have the motor running.

I started to get some of the dirt off the frame, and about 70% of the mower has good paint with very minimal rust. So I will be leaving the paint alone. Only the handle bars and the sickle blade will probably get a touch of paint.

This model has oil cups for the shaft instead of the grease fittings.

The only question I have now is what type of spark plug to use? It came with a Champion cj8 but have a feeling that it may be too small for this older engine.

[OldIronLvr]

Rick I run a J8 champion in my the tall version of the cj8. Or you could run an autolite 295 which most Advance Autoparts stock.