RegL
Platinum Member
As those who have a PT brush hog know, it is designed to swivel front to back ( as well as side to side ) in order to to follow ground contour while mowing. I have found it to be a disadvantage, however, that when you lifted it off the ground, it's balanced such, that it tips forward, making it harder to work on underside and also unsafe to raise into brush as has been discussed here before.
Well, I was pondering this while getting set to change blades this mourning and found a neat fix that may even be by design but PT don't tell you about. Though it's hard to believe they would hold back any information,LOL.
On either side where the front to back pivit bolts are located, an ear extends down and moves between two bolts that act to limit the amount of pivit. In the center of that ear(just my term for it) there's a hole that has no apparent reason for being there. However, by removing the rear limiting bolts and swinging the ears back, I found that the holes matched up perfectly and the unit could be bolted up in that fixed position. The result is that when you lift the arm and operate curl all the way back the mower deck comes to near vertical. You can lower the arms to set the deck on it's rear end to safely work on the underside. I think this is going to be good for brush cutting also as you can curl the deck up leaving the rear near to the ground and the deck between the operator and the action. Than you can curl the dect forward into the brush. I'll report how that works after I try it. Before that I have to get longer bolts also.
The first pic is of where you bolt it up.
Well, I was pondering this while getting set to change blades this mourning and found a neat fix that may even be by design but PT don't tell you about. Though it's hard to believe they would hold back any information,LOL.
On either side where the front to back pivit bolts are located, an ear extends down and moves between two bolts that act to limit the amount of pivit. In the center of that ear(just my term for it) there's a hole that has no apparent reason for being there. However, by removing the rear limiting bolts and swinging the ears back, I found that the holes matched up perfectly and the unit could be bolted up in that fixed position. The result is that when you lift the arm and operate curl all the way back the mower deck comes to near vertical. You can lower the arms to set the deck on it's rear end to safely work on the underside. I think this is going to be good for brush cutting also as you can curl the deck up leaving the rear near to the ground and the deck between the operator and the action. Than you can curl the dect forward into the brush. I'll report how that works after I try it. Before that I have to get longer bolts also.
The first pic is of where you bolt it up.
