Buying Advice Done with hydrostatics

   / Done with hydrostatics #111  
Your low end mower broke after 9 years. I hate it for you. You probably also get upset when your harbor freight ratchet strips in half the time it takes a snap on. Pony up and buy quality or quite complaining about low quality stuff.
 
   / Done with hydrostatics
  • Thread Starter
#112  
OK, that is what I would think most people do.
Your quote didn't read that way and I was wondering :confused3:

It may have sounded frightful, because it *is* frightful running full tilt on short grass. The full speed is a handful and at times you gotta work pretty intensely to hang on to the steering :) Thing is, the machine has no feelings but it still seems to be cutting a swath in a regime that it feels very good in.
 
   / Done with hydrostatics #113  
I still have a 2003 cub- cadet 1529 running well with a 19 HP Kawasaki, and hydro. The one thing I learn the hard way is lawn tractors with sealed hydro's don't pull anything. I burned up two prior to buying this one which now has 1600 hours on it and has never pushed or pulled anything but itself. It doesn't push snow, pull a lawn cart, roller, spreader, nothing, even though the owners manual said it can and implements are sold to fit it.

That is the only reason I believe it has lasted this long.
 
   / Done with hydrostatics
  • Thread Starter
#114  
Your low end mower broke after 9 years. I hate it for you. You probably also get upset when your harbor freight ratchet strips in half the time it takes a snap on. Pony up and buy quality or quite complaining about low quality stuff.

Not this boy. What I see is that I paid good money for a mower on which after only 300 hours there is still a very good engine because I had maintained it well, an excellent almost better than new deck because I have maintained and modified it over the years, like-new tires and the rest of a very long list that clearly establishes what *is* reasonably expectable for $3500 including tax. But it all bombed without warning for what could well be a major design fubar plus a 'maintenance-free' insult making the rest of the rig maybe intentionally prematurely unusable.
 
   / Done with hydrostatics #116  
   / Done with hydrostatics
  • Thread Starter
#117  
If that is the rear axle in the used tractor that you are looking to buy.... Run! Do not give $800 for a used tractor with that POS in it.

For $800 you can find a pretty dang decent garden tractor with a K66 or G730. That is not a tractor that you want to own.

hehe, I think it's the MTD label of the one I do own....
 
   / Done with hydrostatics #118  
hehe, I think it's the MTD label of the one I do own....
If that is the case... Then I understand why it met it's demise at sub-300 hours. That's about equal to the rear axle in a 12V Barbie Jeep
 
   / Done with hydrostatics
  • Thread Starter
#119  
If that is the case... Then I understand why it met it's demise at sub-300 hours. That's about equal to the rear axle in a 12V Barbie Jeep

you mean like we used to call the BA-146 the Fisher-Price Galaxy :)
 
   / Done with hydrostatics #120  
hehe, I think it's the MTD label of the one I do own....

So the subject trans of this thread is a $ 300 MTD transaxle? Not a tuff Torque K46?

Seems like You can just get the new transaxle for another 300 hours So $1 an hour run time other than R&R on a $3500 mower Could be worse No?
 

Tractor & Equipment Auctions

2017-2023 Chevrolet Silverado Pickup Truck Bed (A49461)
2017-2023...
2015 FORD F-250XL SUPER DUTY TRUCK (A51406)
2015 FORD F-250XL...
PENDING SELLER CONFIRMATIONS (A51219)
PENDING SELLER...
3in Poly Pipe (A49461)
3in Poly Pipe (A49461)
Handlair 555 Grain Vac (A50514)
Handlair 555 Grain...
2015 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sedan (A50324)
2015 Volkswagen...
 
Top