Improving my rotary mower

[aarolar]

And she's back together now, going to run it for awhile and see where adjustments need to be made and go from there but so far I think I'll be a lot happier the geometry looks a lot better.

 

[aarolar]

 

[ninefinger]

Nicely done. I understand your geometry problem, it took three tries before finally getting mine the way I wanted it and the last try only happened a month ago. I simply refuse to own up to how much time I spent just looking at what I needed to do and time spent cutting, welding things that did not work.

 

[joefromga]

What was the initial problem you were trying to fix?

 

[aarolar]

What was the initial problem you were trying to fix?

I built the deck from scratch at work it's 3/16" top with 1/4" sideskirts but I used the hitch, tailwheel and gearbox from the old donor.

The tailwheel was too short and would hit the deck if I tried to back up lengthened that.

The hitch had mutiple issues first it was just too light duty for my tractor and use, I had twisted it all up and it was eventually going to fail. Also the pins were too high off the ground and I wasn't able to lift it high enough to suit me. Related to that issue is the fact that for it to pull like I wanted I needed the top link fully extended.