leonz
Super Member
Good evening,
My John Deere LA115 was delivered this afternoon with the mower,
snow blower, rear suit case weights and snow chains.
The open station is very nice and there is lots of leg room.
I have a couple of questions:
This is the first lawn tractor I have owned with only key stock keeping the wheel in place to allow it to travel forward and reverse.
I am not a lead foot driver like the cat outrunning the dog in the GEICO commercial HA HA!! Wasn't that scene taken from "Bullit"? I thought it was anyway, and its hilarious.
Have any of you had the ket stock shear and what were you doing when it sheared? I plan on keeping the rear wieghts on simply due to the small slope I have to mow and my lack of traction there as it is wet for quite a few weeks into mowing season.
This is my first new lawn tractor in 20 years and I always had a speed control on the dash of the tractor.
I was wondering how many of you have the 44 inch snow blower and are you happy with its performance?
We get a mix of snow when we get snow and I am worrried about how it will hold up etc.
I guess I will invest in some slick liner material for the impeller drum and rear wall for sure to make it more efficient. I will be investing in the drift cutters for sure this summer so i have them and add the lights I have to install fo the rear. The rear lights will be one of my wet weather projects.
Do any of you have a strobe mounted on a pole clipped to the rear hitch for working near the road or when traveling to the next driveway etc? I have an SMV placard I will be using as well.
I will probably build a hard cab for it before winter comes as we get a lot of wind as well.
When we moved to my parents second home the tractor that came with the house was an original International Harvester 12 horse power Cub Cadet that had a 36 inch single stage snow blower and to quote Eric Cartman it was KICK ***!!!! with belt drive to a one to one gear bevel box for the single stage snow blower that it had.
The reason I ask is this that I see they have a 3 paddle plastic impeller
and I wondered how well it holds up?
I was going to install one of Clarences impeller kits on it to improve the snow casting ability but will not do it now because of the injection molded plastic impeller.
The flat rear panel on the snow blower will allow me to install pneumatic carrier tires (cylone vac brand dual pneumatic tires-not to name drop but the twin casters that Mcmaster carr has are more costly than the "cyclone rake" dual pnuematic casters) on the snow blower to make it easier to turn and place less stress on the LA 115 front end.
Thoughts on friday night.
My John Deere LA115 was delivered this afternoon with the mower,
snow blower, rear suit case weights and snow chains.
The open station is very nice and there is lots of leg room.
I have a couple of questions:
This is the first lawn tractor I have owned with only key stock keeping the wheel in place to allow it to travel forward and reverse.
I am not a lead foot driver like the cat outrunning the dog in the GEICO commercial HA HA!! Wasn't that scene taken from "Bullit"? I thought it was anyway, and its hilarious.
Have any of you had the ket stock shear and what were you doing when it sheared? I plan on keeping the rear wieghts on simply due to the small slope I have to mow and my lack of traction there as it is wet for quite a few weeks into mowing season.
This is my first new lawn tractor in 20 years and I always had a speed control on the dash of the tractor.
I was wondering how many of you have the 44 inch snow blower and are you happy with its performance?
We get a mix of snow when we get snow and I am worrried about how it will hold up etc.
I guess I will invest in some slick liner material for the impeller drum and rear wall for sure to make it more efficient. I will be investing in the drift cutters for sure this summer so i have them and add the lights I have to install fo the rear. The rear lights will be one of my wet weather projects.
Do any of you have a strobe mounted on a pole clipped to the rear hitch for working near the road or when traveling to the next driveway etc? I have an SMV placard I will be using as well.
I will probably build a hard cab for it before winter comes as we get a lot of wind as well.
When we moved to my parents second home the tractor that came with the house was an original International Harvester 12 horse power Cub Cadet that had a 36 inch single stage snow blower and to quote Eric Cartman it was KICK ***!!!! with belt drive to a one to one gear bevel box for the single stage snow blower that it had.
The reason I ask is this that I see they have a 3 paddle plastic impeller
and I wondered how well it holds up?
I was going to install one of Clarences impeller kits on it to improve the snow casting ability but will not do it now because of the injection molded plastic impeller.
The flat rear panel on the snow blower will allow me to install pneumatic carrier tires (cylone vac brand dual pneumatic tires-not to name drop but the twin casters that Mcmaster carr has are more costly than the "cyclone rake" dual pnuematic casters) on the snow blower to make it easier to turn and place less stress on the LA 115 front end.
Thoughts on friday night.