bmac
Veteran Member
On Thursday, I received a package from Chris at Power Trac with literature and a video. As I'm looking over the photographs that show the 425 with mowing deck attached, I start scratching my head in puzzlement (as I get older, this is becoming alarmingly too frequent).
As has been explained here and as it is depicted in the photographs, the mowing deck has 2 front wheels on casters and the height of these are adjustable. The 2 rear wheels are fixed. It seems to me that if you raise your mowing height at the front wheels only, all you are doing is tilting the front of the deck upward. So, I assume you level the deck with the curl function of the hydraulic controller to raise the rear portion of the deck. It seems to me that this would raise the rears wheels off the ground. From my astute observations, can I assume that the rear wheels are only for anti-scalp function when mowing at above minimum heights? Also, is the front-to-rear leveling of the mowing deck done by visual evaluaiton only? Is there a reason (beyond cost) that they don't make all 4 wheels adjustable?
Also, from looking at the pictures, I looks like the front wheels are quite far in front of the deck platform and blades. I was hoping that a front mounted mower would be good at getting to the inside corners of my fenced-in yard. I can't be sure, but it looks like I will have at least a foot of uncut grass in these corners. Of course, it will still probably be better than what I am achieving now with my lawn tractor, but for some reason I was thinking you could get right into the corner with the front mount.
I realize everyone says the finish mower does an excellent job so I probably shouldn't sweat the details like this. But to me something seems a little strange about this setup. As always, any explanation would be appreciated.
As has been explained here and as it is depicted in the photographs, the mowing deck has 2 front wheels on casters and the height of these are adjustable. The 2 rear wheels are fixed. It seems to me that if you raise your mowing height at the front wheels only, all you are doing is tilting the front of the deck upward. So, I assume you level the deck with the curl function of the hydraulic controller to raise the rear portion of the deck. It seems to me that this would raise the rears wheels off the ground. From my astute observations, can I assume that the rear wheels are only for anti-scalp function when mowing at above minimum heights? Also, is the front-to-rear leveling of the mowing deck done by visual evaluaiton only? Is there a reason (beyond cost) that they don't make all 4 wheels adjustable?
Also, from looking at the pictures, I looks like the front wheels are quite far in front of the deck platform and blades. I was hoping that a front mounted mower would be good at getting to the inside corners of my fenced-in yard. I can't be sure, but it looks like I will have at least a foot of uncut grass in these corners. Of course, it will still probably be better than what I am achieving now with my lawn tractor, but for some reason I was thinking you could get right into the corner with the front mount.
I realize everyone says the finish mower does an excellent job so I probably shouldn't sweat the details like this. But to me something seems a little strange about this setup. As always, any explanation would be appreciated.