John Deere Mower Deck Drive Belt - M163993
122 inches. Ten feet of belt, 8 dollars a foot.
I wonder who makes them for Deere. Might be nice to buy the belt without the expensive
green cardboard on it.
At 80 percent throttle I wonder what the rpm of my mower deck spindles are.
Curious as to how fast this belt is moving. A slow moving belt likely does not build up a lot of heat
so perhaps not such a fancy belt needed. But a fast moving belt, like a tire, probably needs to be well made, perhaps with
extra plies or extras like aramid.
I haven't done it yet but I wonder how little I could pay for a 122 inch belt. I'm guessing in the twenty dollar range. Vs. 84 at JD.
Just like to know what the range is, some kind of sanity check for what seems
like crazy high pricing. Yes I'm sure "real" farmers with combines and threshers see 100 dollar belts all the time.
And some of us have belts I understand might not last long at all, like belts on a
chipper. Particularly if something gets stuck.
A
chipper certainly sounds like a high speed belt.
If I can't get a better deal on a comparable belt, I'll likely get plundered by the parts desk at JD.
Not looking for lower quality, just better price.
Lot of serpentine belts in cars and machinery today. Two smaller belts instead of one longer one
might well be less expensive.
Gates has made belts a long time. Who else is good? I'd really like to buy a non Chinese belt.
If the reason this belt costs 84 bucks instead of 34 is because it's built here instead of China,
on an important belt, I'd pay the extra. I figured I'd need a new mower belt about every five years, or in my case
6-700 hours. I'm at 300 now and have a spare. Figured I'd go another year and then swap the belts out and hang the used one on the
wall. I suppose I could just wait until it breaks but when does that ever happen at a convenient time.
Which gets back to my original question. How many hours or years do belts last?
We know tires and rubber hoses dry rot; what about belts?