smalltown,
I can't help you with the specific underguts of that tractor and it's mid mount mower.
I imagine that mid mowers and under tractor sub frames would SERIOUSLY get in each others' way.
I bought an Amerequip 8600 hoe and brought it home in a horse trailer, but that was for a 40 something HP Kukje 4,000 lb tractor that doesn't DO mid mowers.
I know JD has OEM'd this particular hoe, but I don't remember the model name/number they assigned it when painted green.
All I can tell you from that experience is that the "installation" was trivial.
Basically the two major parts are the under tractor sub frame (specific to each tractor) and "the rest of it" which is generic. I just had to bolt those together, install the hoses, then back over it and do a regular hook-up.
I used the FEL a few times to lay out the under frame and as a crane for the other half, just to align things and get the bolts started.
It really was a bolt together deal and the hose kit spliced right into the FEL hydraulics with no problems.
One thing you might find with a used unit is that it may have tweaked just slightly, I don't mean BENT, just moved within the tolerances between bolts and bolt holes.
It may just have been aligned to a tractor that had its tolerances "all the other way".
So don't be alarmed if it isn't a perfect fit up on the first try.
If you have difficulty getting it to tuck up into position when you get to the self assisting hook-up phase just loosen up the dozen or so bolts holding the underframe to the rest of it, jiggle things into position and re-tighten them when it finally flips in.
Be VERY CAREFUL with the jiggling; no hands, fingers or even boots too close to the sub frame and tractor frame that you are trying to get in agreement with each other.
I can't help you with the specific underguts of that tractor and it's mid mount mower.
I imagine that mid mowers and under tractor sub frames would SERIOUSLY get in each others' way.
I bought an Amerequip 8600 hoe and brought it home in a horse trailer, but that was for a 40 something HP Kukje 4,000 lb tractor that doesn't DO mid mowers.
I know JD has OEM'd this particular hoe, but I don't remember the model name/number they assigned it when painted green.
All I can tell you from that experience is that the "installation" was trivial.
Basically the two major parts are the under tractor sub frame (specific to each tractor) and "the rest of it" which is generic. I just had to bolt those together, install the hoses, then back over it and do a regular hook-up.
I used the FEL a few times to lay out the under frame and as a crane for the other half, just to align things and get the bolts started.
It really was a bolt together deal and the hose kit spliced right into the FEL hydraulics with no problems.
One thing you might find with a used unit is that it may have tweaked just slightly, I don't mean BENT, just moved within the tolerances between bolts and bolt holes.
It may just have been aligned to a tractor that had its tolerances "all the other way".
So don't be alarmed if it isn't a perfect fit up on the first try.
If you have difficulty getting it to tuck up into position when you get to the self assisting hook-up phase just loosen up the dozen or so bolts holding the underframe to the rest of it, jiggle things into position and re-tighten them when it finally flips in.
Be VERY CAREFUL with the jiggling; no hands, fingers or even boots too close to the sub frame and tractor frame that you are trying to get in agreement with each other.
