RickOliver
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I'm a new tractor owner. To tell the truth, owning a tractor has not been real high on my list of things I wanted to do, but a number of implement dealers assured me that I really needed a tractor to keep 4-5 acres of grass/brush and an access "road" clear, as well as clear additional areas of brush. I finally settled on the BX2230, and the dealer offered me a great deal on the BX plus a Land Pride rotary mower that attaches to the rear PTO and three-point hitch. He assured me this was just the combination I needed.
2 problems:
1. The Land Pride mower weighs about 400 lbs. With the 3-point hitch in the up position and the mower off the ground, I can barely drive the tractor on a level surface without doing wheelies (and forget about going up hill). I could add weights to the front (for a couple hundred more bucks), but that wouldn't solve problem number...
2. As far as I can tell, the mower is designed to sit flat on the ground (the only wheel/tire it has is a single behind the mower); so the tractor basically drags the mower through the grass/brush. But the front end of the mower just keeps digging into the ground (basically acting like a plow), and most of the time the tractor stops at that point, because I don't think the 22 HP engine is strong enough to drag that 400 lb. weight if it encounters the slightest resistance. On those rare surfaces where I can actually mow anything, I also leave two parallel gouges in the ground where each side of the mower scraped the vegetation away.
To make matters worse, I think it's a used mower (or a rebuild) that they pawned off on me as new. Aside from the telltale rust spots, the dealer keeps "forgetting" to provide the manual or whatever paperwork accompanies the mower, and I'm afraid that may be because he doesn't have a manual for it and any paperwork might expose it for what it is.
I know that this particular 42" Land Pride (don't know the model # because I don't have any paperwork), wasn't designed for my tractor, because the dealer told me they had to shorten the shaft to make it fit on my BX.
Did I buy too much mower for my tractor? Am I doing something stupid? (As far as I can tell, the 3-point hitch has two positions -- up and down.) Can I modify the mower to work at least marginally well? (Like, oh, I dunno, weld an axle on the front and slap on a couple small wheels?)
2 problems:
1. The Land Pride mower weighs about 400 lbs. With the 3-point hitch in the up position and the mower off the ground, I can barely drive the tractor on a level surface without doing wheelies (and forget about going up hill). I could add weights to the front (for a couple hundred more bucks), but that wouldn't solve problem number...
2. As far as I can tell, the mower is designed to sit flat on the ground (the only wheel/tire it has is a single behind the mower); so the tractor basically drags the mower through the grass/brush. But the front end of the mower just keeps digging into the ground (basically acting like a plow), and most of the time the tractor stops at that point, because I don't think the 22 HP engine is strong enough to drag that 400 lb. weight if it encounters the slightest resistance. On those rare surfaces where I can actually mow anything, I also leave two parallel gouges in the ground where each side of the mower scraped the vegetation away.
To make matters worse, I think it's a used mower (or a rebuild) that they pawned off on me as new. Aside from the telltale rust spots, the dealer keeps "forgetting" to provide the manual or whatever paperwork accompanies the mower, and I'm afraid that may be because he doesn't have a manual for it and any paperwork might expose it for what it is.
I know that this particular 42" Land Pride (don't know the model # because I don't have any paperwork), wasn't designed for my tractor, because the dealer told me they had to shorten the shaft to make it fit on my BX.
Did I buy too much mower for my tractor? Am I doing something stupid? (As far as I can tell, the 3-point hitch has two positions -- up and down.) Can I modify the mower to work at least marginally well? (Like, oh, I dunno, weld an axle on the front and slap on a couple small wheels?)