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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( --->Paul ... you can raise the mower up of course, but that is a parrallel raising, not a true, helpful pivot action that we are looking for?
True again, it is more of a verticle lift rather than a swinging pivot, but it did seem to move pretty easily. I used a 5' 2x4 over a block of wood and it lifted up as far as I had lever space. As I said, it seems that would be enough.
OK, I think I've worked this thread to death, don't know if anything was truely resolved. Fun disscussion though. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>
Ok. In my experience without a flex-link, when the tractor goes through a dip:
The front wheels enter, & the mower is hanging in the air, parrallel with the tractor, not parrallel with the ground. Either the front of the mower is digging into the dirt with the whole weight of the mower on it, or the grass is not being cut well because the mower is no longer parrellel with the ground it is over.
The front wheels come out of the dip, the rear wheels go in the dip. The mower now compresses, the tail wheel taking all the weight of the mower, and there is a bit of sissors-type compression of the whole 3pt linkage with the front wheels & rear mower tail wheel compressing the mower, the rear wheels of the tractor dropping down. Typically the rear of the mower wants to press into the ground hard, the front of the mower is trying to raise & not cut - tho that tiny compression force binds it from raising freely. In the end, the tail wheel leaves a mark, the grass is not cut well, and it just is a yuky deal.
I understand you may be able to coax the mower up in a parrallel action with a bar & block of wood while standing still, but in actual use in the real world when motion & compression forces are happening, that upward motion does not easily happen, & the parrallel action of the mower (to the tracotor, _not_ the ground) prevents smooth cutting.
A flex-link, even a small flex, will _greatly_ smooth all this out, preventing dig/ scrape marks on the sod, and a leveler, smoother cut.
Just my experience, not saying that is how it is or should be for everyone. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
--->Paul
True again, it is more of a verticle lift rather than a swinging pivot, but it did seem to move pretty easily. I used a 5' 2x4 over a block of wood and it lifted up as far as I had lever space. As I said, it seems that would be enough.
OK, I think I've worked this thread to death, don't know if anything was truely resolved. Fun disscussion though. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>
Ok. In my experience without a flex-link, when the tractor goes through a dip:
The front wheels enter, & the mower is hanging in the air, parrallel with the tractor, not parrallel with the ground. Either the front of the mower is digging into the dirt with the whole weight of the mower on it, or the grass is not being cut well because the mower is no longer parrellel with the ground it is over.
The front wheels come out of the dip, the rear wheels go in the dip. The mower now compresses, the tail wheel taking all the weight of the mower, and there is a bit of sissors-type compression of the whole 3pt linkage with the front wheels & rear mower tail wheel compressing the mower, the rear wheels of the tractor dropping down. Typically the rear of the mower wants to press into the ground hard, the front of the mower is trying to raise & not cut - tho that tiny compression force binds it from raising freely. In the end, the tail wheel leaves a mark, the grass is not cut well, and it just is a yuky deal.
I understand you may be able to coax the mower up in a parrallel action with a bar & block of wood while standing still, but in actual use in the real world when motion & compression forces are happening, that upward motion does not easily happen, & the parrallel action of the mower (to the tracotor, _not_ the ground) prevents smooth cutting.
A flex-link, even a small flex, will _greatly_ smooth all this out, preventing dig/ scrape marks on the sod, and a leveler, smoother cut.
Just my experience, not saying that is how it is or should be for everyone. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
--->Paul
