Mower Deck build

[Jeff Lary]

Great job, I also noticed the tire chains I bought my Wheel Horse in 1997 with chains on I blow snow and mow lawn and the chains have never been off still plenty of traction in the winter and no spin on my slopes in the summer.

[Diamondpilot]

Neat build. I had the same issue with tires. I had a King Kutter 5' mower that had cheap tires like that. I replaced them with solid tires from the mower shop for the front of ZTR's and not a single problem after that until I sold the piece of crap KK.

Biggest issue with the KK tires was even at 35 PSI that was recommended they would roll off the rims and tear the Valve Stems off.



Chris

[draganof1]

Tire Chains are the only way to go up here in the Land of Wet Grass. And those cheap wheels are being replaced this weekend with solid rubber tires. No more HF Tires for me.

[mwb]

Nice! I like the mule drive... been thinking of making a mud motor (swamp motor for a boat) using a vertical shaft engine (lawn tractor) and use a mule drive to make it work.

[draganof1]

Well I finally changed out the wheels to solid rubber and it cured all the problems. I've been working on the Chipper addition and the only thing remaining is to go back and finish some welding on the Chute and a few small areas. Rain is on it's way here this weekend so I reluctantly threw on some paint to keep the rust down until I finish the welding. Oh I did run a bunch of DF branches and Blackberry vines through it. Works great. Some of the Branches were 1" and above. Didn't even slow it down. Keep in mind this was designed for light duty. I'll post some final pics once I finish it. I like this multi-purpose machine thing. I'm thinking the next accessory will be a 1/2 scale Buck Saw.

[draganof1]

Tough crowd.....

[Short Game]

We're waiting for it to make Julienne fries.

[hddnis]

Tough crowd.....

I just saw this thread.

Very cool machine you have going on there. I like the chipper, DF branches can be a pain since a mower will just run over the top and leaves those little straight poles in the grass.



Mr. HE

[sandman2234]

Tough crowd.....

if you think we're bad, you ought to try some of the other forums I visit. They are hard to get a bite out of!!

I, like others just saw this post. Nice build!!Probably the only thing I hesitate in appalding you on is the choice of spindles, but understand that was probably due to using what was on hand. I did a larger version (7' 6") to pull behind my Ford 1100 13hp 4x4 tractor and used boat axle spindle hubs (3500 pound cap) with custom made spindles. The deck got traded for some electrical work that I needed done before I ever finished it, (but I had to finish it as part of the deal) so I never got to try it out. Since I still have 3 of those spindles, maybe I need to start another deck project.... (NOT!!!)
I especially like the addition of the chipper!
David from jax

[NormL]

Tire Chains are the only way to go up here in the Land of Wet Grass. And those cheap wheels are being replaced this weekend with solid rubber tires. No more HF Tires for me.

I used to take my chains off the Ford 601 with FEL come the summer. I quit doing that (laziness on my part the first time) a couple years ago. Big improvement! Now I leave them on for the performance. Same with the garden tractor.