Another MX6 Brush Hog Failure

[Turbys_1700]

I cut some 1-3 inch pine saplings this spring. I was cutting some open former pasture that had not been cut in over a year. This fall when I cut it will be much more manageable. My Brown was an 06 model. I assume the gearbox is Chinese but it may be USA because of the year of manufacture. It performed fine.

 

[JimR]

I cut some 1-3 inch pine saplings this spring. I was cutting some open former pasture that had not been cut in over a year. This fall when I cut it will be much more manageable. My Brown was an 06 model. I assume the gearbox is Chinese but it may be USA because of the year of manufacture. It performed fine.

Pines are soft wood and cut like butter compared to Maple and Oaks. Your gearbox will say where it is made on the tag that is on it.

 

[Turbys_1700]

Yes they do cut easier than hard wood. That was not the point. I'll check the gearbox but I don't recall a tag on it.

 

[buickanddeere]

Going to have to check the serial number on my MX6

 

[Kevin37]

Well....it's been quite a while since I've added to this thread but I guess it's time. This broken MX6 has been a sore spot with me for years. I called John Deere again today and explained again the clean shear of the shaft after only about 100 hours of cutting field grass and light brush. After using a lesser-name cutter for the past several years, (when my MX6 broke I couldn't afford the repair) I want my MX6 deck mower back up and running. The mounting arms and i hitch are above and beyond what I've been using. John Deere offered nothing on the phone and sent me back to the dealer I bought my equipment from. I took the gearbox and broken shaft to them and again relayed the entire story. Now I had 12 pages of discussion from this thread showing multiple owners with identical problems. They are contacting the field rep who I'm told will be more familiar with a recurring problem. I'm now waiting to hear the decision. It still amazes me that Deere refuses to see this is a defect and has ignored the complaints of so many MX6 owners. Certainly there are Deere reps and corporate types who troll this website. In today's internet centered world it would be foolish if they weren't on these forums keeping their fingers on the pulse of the now well informed, well educated consumer. I wonder how many sales they have lost due to this web site and others like it?? Oh yeah....number of John Deere cutters at my LARGE dealership today....one.....large bat-wing mower. All other brush hogs were other brands besides Deere. They know......they just don't want to admit they know.

 

[DocDryden]

I wonder how many sales they have lost due to this web site and others like it??

JD has lost one here,
I was ready to by an MX6 until l read about all the not so happy MX6 owners

 

[JMER817]

Who is making the MX6 for John Deere? I know woods makes a lot of their other attachments

 

[ArlyA]

We are also looking at MX6 mower but not any longer......... It doesn't make much difference who made it. JD designed it and sold it as there's.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Who is making the MX6 for John Deere? I know woods makes a lot of their other attachments

This doesn't look like a Wood-built cutter. Woods goes out of their way to make their tops smooth and to integrate the chains flush with the sides.

MX6

Woods BB72X

Woods recently has been keeping their name on their equipment. This one looks like a BB720X to my eye.

Woods gear box also have "Woods" cast into them.

 

[bilrus61]

MX cutters are made in Mexico at a Deere owned factory. So are the HX and the CX. The cheaper frontiers are made in USA by Tarter Gate in Kentucky. Both use Chinese made gearboxes. So does everyone else as far as I know.