EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
While minding my own business, just driving along, mowing the grass, I heard what sounded like a branch being destroyed by the mower blades. But it kept going of for longer then it should, so I looked back and saw a round cap laying behind the gear box, and oil everywhere.
I headed back in and took of the top cover. The gears all look good, but the gear that goes through the middle of the case, and connects to the driveshaft, slides back and forth. If I slide it to the tractor, it turns the blades. If I slide it away from the tractor, the blades do not turn.
It was Saturday afternoon, but I sent an email to my dealer, PR Equipment in Karens TX a note asking about my Five Year Warrantee. I checked my email a few hours later and had a saw that they had replied. Basically, if I didn't run it with no oil in it, the Warrantee is good. Then on Monday morning, they called me and asked me the same question, did I have oil in the gearbox? I did, and after I told him what happened, he said that I had the perfect scenario for a Warrantee Claim.
I had two options. Take the entire batwing to them, and they will do all the work, or bring just the gear box to them, and they will give me a new one.
Unhooking the batwing, loading it onto a trailer, and hauling there, and then going back to pick it up, haul it home, and hook it back up again, sounded like a lot more work then taking it off and just bringing them the gear box.
I've never removed a stump jumper before in one piece, so I can use it again. The one time I did it before, I used a grinder and a cutting torch since it had cracked, and it was already junk.
This is the main reason for this post. Getting the stump jumper off was almost overwhelming. I couldn't pry it from anywhere, and I didn't have anything to pull it off. I looked at some YouTube videos, and Land Pride had one showing them use a T Post pounder to get it off. That seemed like the easiest, least complicated way to get it off. In the video, he hit it two times, where the bolts for the blades attach, and then one time at the other bolt location. In my world, I hit it four times, did the other side four times, then went back and fourth, hitting it four times on each side, until it fell off. I didn't count how many times I rotated it, but it was enough to get a workout. Maybe 7 or 8 times total before it fell off.
Once it was done, I was so happy, that I needed to post this in case others have to take off their stump jumper!!!!
Now I'm waiting for the new gear box to get here
I headed back in and took of the top cover. The gears all look good, but the gear that goes through the middle of the case, and connects to the driveshaft, slides back and forth. If I slide it to the tractor, it turns the blades. If I slide it away from the tractor, the blades do not turn.
It was Saturday afternoon, but I sent an email to my dealer, PR Equipment in Karens TX a note asking about my Five Year Warrantee. I checked my email a few hours later and had a saw that they had replied. Basically, if I didn't run it with no oil in it, the Warrantee is good. Then on Monday morning, they called me and asked me the same question, did I have oil in the gearbox? I did, and after I told him what happened, he said that I had the perfect scenario for a Warrantee Claim.
I had two options. Take the entire batwing to them, and they will do all the work, or bring just the gear box to them, and they will give me a new one.
Unhooking the batwing, loading it onto a trailer, and hauling there, and then going back to pick it up, haul it home, and hook it back up again, sounded like a lot more work then taking it off and just bringing them the gear box.
I've never removed a stump jumper before in one piece, so I can use it again. The one time I did it before, I used a grinder and a cutting torch since it had cracked, and it was already junk.
This is the main reason for this post. Getting the stump jumper off was almost overwhelming. I couldn't pry it from anywhere, and I didn't have anything to pull it off. I looked at some YouTube videos, and Land Pride had one showing them use a T Post pounder to get it off. That seemed like the easiest, least complicated way to get it off. In the video, he hit it two times, where the bolts for the blades attach, and then one time at the other bolt location. In my world, I hit it four times, did the other side four times, then went back and fourth, hitting it four times on each side, until it fell off. I didn't count how many times I rotated it, but it was enough to get a workout. Maybe 7 or 8 times total before it fell off.
Once it was done, I was so happy, that I needed to post this in case others have to take off their stump jumper!!!!
Now I'm waiting for the new gear box to get here
