Chuck K.
Gold Member
Embarrassing I guess sums it up... While mowing the still slightly wet shallow ditch with my ZTR I felt the low side drive wheel start to spin..
Now for those of you that have ZTRs they dont like slippery ditches to begin with.. When the wheel began to spin I turned off the blades, raised the deck and try to use my forward momentum to just cross the ditch to prevent from getting stuck. My timing was a little off and the L/F anti-scalp wheel caught the guy wire to the telephone along with a sapling tree. This hung me up big time, rear end hung on one side of the ditch so I cant back up even if I had traction. I cannot go foreward due to the guy wire and sapling.. You (least I can not) man handle this mower it weighs in around 1,000 pounds.
So I go get the tractor as ppl drive by gawking. I waited untill most traffic is gone in order to lift the rear of the mower up and out of the ditch. Just as the wife and about what seemed like 2 dozen cars stopped to watch surely laughing...
Oh well at least I got it out with no damage...
Now for those of you that have ZTRs they dont like slippery ditches to begin with.. When the wheel began to spin I turned off the blades, raised the deck and try to use my forward momentum to just cross the ditch to prevent from getting stuck. My timing was a little off and the L/F anti-scalp wheel caught the guy wire to the telephone along with a sapling tree. This hung me up big time, rear end hung on one side of the ditch so I cant back up even if I had traction. I cannot go foreward due to the guy wire and sapling.. You (least I can not) man handle this mower it weighs in around 1,000 pounds.
So I go get the tractor as ppl drive by gawking. I waited untill most traffic is gone in order to lift the rear of the mower up and out of the ditch. Just as the wife and about what seemed like 2 dozen cars stopped to watch surely laughing...
Oh well at least I got it out with no damage...
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