BeeferMan
Gold Member
Ok, go ahead and blast me, but I'm sick and tried of safety switches.
I picked up a TT75A recently, mainly some extra HP for haying. I haven't used it yet and it's already about to drive me crazy. It's got more freakin' safety switches on it... Seat, PTO, tranny, aux tranny, brake... And if you get off it without setting the brake - even with the tractor turned off - it emits this periodic beeping that'll raise the dead. And of course the pawl on the brakes is worn enough that it'll occasionally release on it's own. I keep the tractor far enough away from my house that I can't hear it, but some of the neighbors can - need I say more? So I've shorted out the seat switch already.
Then, last weekend I decided to get my Wheel Horse lawn tractor going. I got another one, so I never ever fired this one up last year. Battery was dead, so I put a new one in it, set the brake, climbed on - no starter. About an hour later I had it running - after having to defeat every single safety switch on the tractor. They were all bad! One on the seat, one on the brake, two on the PTO lever. I'll probably end up replacing most of those, but....
Ok, rant over....
I picked up a TT75A recently, mainly some extra HP for haying. I haven't used it yet and it's already about to drive me crazy. It's got more freakin' safety switches on it... Seat, PTO, tranny, aux tranny, brake... And if you get off it without setting the brake - even with the tractor turned off - it emits this periodic beeping that'll raise the dead. And of course the pawl on the brakes is worn enough that it'll occasionally release on it's own. I keep the tractor far enough away from my house that I can't hear it, but some of the neighbors can - need I say more? So I've shorted out the seat switch already.
Then, last weekend I decided to get my Wheel Horse lawn tractor going. I got another one, so I never ever fired this one up last year. Battery was dead, so I put a new one in it, set the brake, climbed on - no starter. About an hour later I had it running - after having to defeat every single safety switch on the tractor. They were all bad! One on the seat, one on the brake, two on the PTO lever. I'll probably end up replacing most of those, but....
Ok, rant over....