Recent content by dadohead

Allied Systems??? A trucking company? So wheel bolts??? Really? This is exactly why myself and other tractor industry people I know dont come here anymore...

Industries have always developed, maintained, and shared best practices. The chart above though, with no source or specific application, posted on a tractor forum... is frightening. The readers here vary widely in experience and the applications of bolts joints used on tractors range from the...

Pushing the mower was a great test. From your original post, the right side cut well, the left side cut poorly. Correct? This makes sense for a CW cutter. A few things come to mind. Like the above comment, low tip speed seems very possible. 17 hp on a 52" rough cutter is light anyway...

The weakest portion of the cut in a rotary impact mower are the 'forward sweep' portions of the blades (the blade half that is traveling forward). Why? The mower housing is bending the grass forward before being cut. It is difficult to mechanically lift it when the blades are going in the...

You can find most everything on the internet. The chart above should have been left where it was found though. I'm a retired tractor engineer and one of my first training assignments was running the bolt lab for our construction machine division. A sign was in the lab: "torque is what we do...

Your neighbors DR look like this one? See why this DR wouldn't Tire Track? Those DR guys are fart smellers! Maybe just a tweak to your tow bar. Note: they are careful to keep the LH caster in the previously cut path too... it's called Marketing.

"Hold on there Baba Looey!" Before you turn 'Jack the Ripper' loose on some other poor soul, try this test: Try backing your mower into tall grass (essentially turning it into a front mount mower). I suspect the cut will be good across the full width. Report your findings please. Mowing...

I'm a retired mower engineer. I'm sorry but your post makes me smile. I haven't visited here in some time but I think I can help you. Mowers are tough to design; they each have a "personality". The guys at Swisher know what is going on... but won't tell you that one of their 'children' is...

I had a 5' Land Pride landplane for years (sold when I blacktopped my 1/4 mile drive). It came setup with the cutting edges ~1/4" below the sole and ran well. The cutting edges were also skewed like the EA pic above so the material would propagate to the left going forward. I'd operate it on...

Yes! The belleville washer transmits the clamp force from the blade bolt to the outer rim of the spindle so it can effectively drive the blade(s). If the blade has just a round hole (not a star shaped mechanical driver) the install torque is not a big deal because the joint is self tightening...

Haven't got much snow yet this year but clearing off my 1/4 mile long blacktop lane gets the Sun on it and really accelerates melting. The poly edge is new for this year. Chatters on the dry pavement but behaves nicely once loaded. Still learning with it. The Rhino 5006 handles ~%80 of...

Do I sense mower deck frustration??? Ha! Thanks for the post! You have no idea... I've been close to leaving this site multiple times but your post reminds me that there are people here that understand the equipment they talk about. Yes, Deere hasn't had the greatest reputation in decks...

Wow... you two need to chill. I am just giving you the background into tractor design and production because you clearly have no clue. There is no 'motivation' to use only 'special' parts. JD is no different than Ford, GM, or Toro in this regard. In my 30 years at JD, I only had to design a...

I'm a retired JD engineer... my name is on a lot of belt drawings. Sorry, but creating 'special', non-standard parts (whatever that is) is not a motivation.... lol. Deere has very high life goals for it's components... especially belt drives. So first, the drive is modeled on CAD and hand...