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I recently purchased a used BCS 948 with a broken dead-mans paddle and disconnected dead-man wiring. I am putting the tractor back to factory-ish condition. Do you appreciate the dead-man paddle/switch on your 2 wheel tractor or hate it? I have been using a Mainland (BCS) tractor for 25...

Service bulleting 210 https://d1o0i0v5q5lp8h.cloudfront.net/bcsame/live/assets/accordion_entries/resource/Service%20Bulletin%202-10%20-%202022.3.2.pdf This PDF lists all the correct cable part numbers for all of the different BCS tractors broken out by tractor model AND serial number range...

Next Sunday I will be picking up a BCS 948 with a bad Honda GX390, tiller attachment (33" I believe) and a brush cutter for $1000. I have been investigating options for a replacement engine: 1) Rebuild the Honda GX390 - 69lb 2) Harbor freight 420cc 13hp Predator engine - 76lb - $389 3) Harbor...

I think I was 12 or so the first time I ran a rototiller. My mother wouldn't let me operate the rental front tine tiller to break new ground to enlarge our vegetable garden... but my dad would. Some time later after I was off to college my parents bought a Troy built Pony. Man, was that nice...

I am tired of tinker toy mowers with little rubber band engines that always break. I am trying to figure out how to attach this: to this: I was thinking of pulling the main shaft from this: and stick it though the hole in the engine it came out of if I can figure out how to get the...

I have seen these little hydrostatic pumps at surplus center: https://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?UID=2324022401522920&item=9-7686&catname=hydraulic at .43 cu inch they don't seem like they would be of much use in driving a wheel motor of any decent size/power. But at $129 for a dual pump...

I have a 20 year old John Deere F725 mower that I use to mow the 3 acres of lawn on my 5 acre property. It does a beautiful job and is much faster than my old mid deck mower BUT I spend almost as much time keeping it running as I do mowing with it. After the shell shock on the price of new...

My 19 year old JD F725 is slowly petering out on me (About 2 acres of my personal lawn twice a week only). It is on it's second engine and the deck has many welds on it. I just got through replacing all the spindals with aftermarket clone spindals. Every imaginable jointed part is wallowed...