Broke the Rough-Cut

[Charlie_Iliff]

I proved I shouldn't crow about easy repair of a problem as in the rough-cut mower problem thread. This one's a bit tougher. Was on a steep poison ivy, brush and trash filled hill, with holes from fallen trees (the Isabel trees that mashed my truck)

Mowed forward on an angle uphill until ran out of traction, then while backing and sliding sideways, caught the mower deck on a root. It tilted all the way up and snapped the pin at the attach plate. Then it fell into a 2' deep hole, still running, suspended by the three hydraulic hoses.

Took some maneuvering to get where I could lift it out with the boom and cable, and PT pucker down to level ground.

Terry's Fed Exing a new pin which we'll weld on tomorrow. Then, I suspect I'll be right back on that hill. Slow learner.

 

[RegL]

Charlie, did you have the draft control on? When my brush hog snags something in reverse, the draft control picks the loader arms right up. Sounds like in your case things were happening a little to quickley to save the mower.

 

[toy]

I was wandering about that truck did you sell it I beleive you could load it with the 425 from the side the way the bed was modified.

 

[Sedgewood]

<font color="red">Mowed forward on an angle uphill until ran out of traction, then while backing and sliding sideways, caught the mower deck on a root. It tilted all the way up and snapped the pin at the attach plate. Then it fell into a 2' deep hole, still running, suspended by the three hydraulic hoses. </font>

Ouch! On my roughcut the two little tilt limit nubs that keep it from tilting back too far popped of within just a few hours. It's a bit of a pain to hook up the mower without them but maybe there's an upside to not having them. I too snag a root now & then, but so far not whilst sliding off the hill.

Just my luck there was a new hire practicing on nubs the day my mower went down the line /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

(probably the same hire that welded the posts to the caster wheel forks that day) /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Good luck grinding your nubs off Charlie,
Sedgewood

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

<font color="red"> Good luck grinding your nubs off Charlie </font>
I'm not sure what they use, but I've had to grind off a couple of Power Trac welds. Hard!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I'm not looking forward to tonight's project.

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

Reg:
I did have the draft control on. The machine was accelerating downhill a bit and the root went over the deck. My immediate reflex was to sit still and watch the mower get farther away from the machine. Reflexes are us. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I did stop before it ripped off the hydraulic lines.