Chains B7100 chains and fenders

[grossgary]

woah? i have a B7100 and this is all new to me. i guess i need to check the hub tigthness on mine.

my wheels are set just to about the same width as my 60" MMM deck. anyone know which hub setting that corresponds too?

in general torque values are most critical in specific situations like with aluminum (very soft metal), or when doing work on tight tolerance machined surfaces like engine block work (heads, block, etc). i'm not surprised Egon says proceed without a torque wrench on hub work.

i too have a set of chains that came with the tractor, i basically have been throwing them around like scrap metal, had no clue they run $200+.

 

[MLD]

My wheels or the very outside of the rear tires are about 42 inches. My FEL is 48 inches. GrossGary are you saying your outside width is 5 feet? If I could change mine to that width It would be both good and bad. The good is stability, the bad is I'm just making it thru my old "Gravely Gauge" paths on my humpy,lumpy,stumpy, hilly, mucky New Hamphire granite strewn tornado ravaged thicket as it is. Not to mention I'm half way across a stream with a new 36 X 6 foot bridge the old bridge is "GG" and too small for Kubota. And only 6 inches left and right over the 2 foot abyss would make me nervous with or without the log I'll be pulling.

Looking at the wheel wells on the outside they seem pretty deep its hard to imagine that reversing those would be the wider stance. Its also is difficult to really see the inside depth as there are wheel weights there.

Maybe it's time to contact the previous owner.

As to the chains My turf tires are very fat 29X1200 NHS 15 Maybe thats why the chains are so expensive.

MLD

 

[grossgary]

no, i am not saying my outside width is 5 feet. i was just going off memory...eyeball memory, even worse. it seems like my tires are just inside my 60" mower. if they're 6 inches inside each side, then that's right where yours is, although from memory it seems a lot closer than that, but who knows.

 

[Egon]

Looking at the wheel wells on the outside they seem pretty deep its hard to imagine that reversing those would be the wider stance.

The rims only bolt on to the hub one way.

 

[B2400]

I put the torque figure from the manual in there in case you had a torque wrench. Since you don't, make it "good and tight" and that should work!