Look Ma!! No blades......!!

[BobG_in_VA]

Something happened yesterday that I have never seen nor heard of before. Where I keep my Mahindra 6000 and implements (one being a 7 ft International rotary cutter), my friend was using the cutter on the back of his Case 585. He comes over to the house last nite and says, "come on out to the truck, I want to show you something." In the bed of his truck is a steel disc one inch thick and about 32 inches in diameter with 2 two inch cross steel plates welded across it (for strenght I assume). There is about a 1 inch hole at either side of the disc. Yes, it is (was) the blade carrier for my International cutter. He then showed me a female spline tube that was welded on top of the disc and fits over the spline coming down off the gear box (spline size looked to be about 2"). It just fell off......yep, he says he was going along not very fast in some not so tall grass, he looked back and saw something laying in the grass. He stopped, went back and saw it. He never heard anything. The female spline section had separated at the weld on the carrier and simply dropped down. He lifted up the cutter, undid the bolt/nut holding on the spline and tapped it off (good thing its only a few months old and not rusty). Weeelllll, I called today and promptly received a call back this afternoon that International is sending a new carrier/spline and a new set of blades (I asked for the blades and will pay for them). I don't know whether to cry or extoll the virtues of customer service!!!??? Anyhow, just wonder if anyone had ever heard of such a thing happening. I hadn't untill yesterday......Regards, BobG in VA

 

[DavidJ]

Yep /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Had it happen with a Massey Ferguson rotary cutter. was cutting grass and it got unusally quite, looked back and the whole assembly was laying in the grass several yards behind the cutter.

 

[markct]

yep had that happen with our old ford bushog, i was 15 or so and was brushoging the powerline right of way and hit some vines and junk which bounced around pretty good do i lifted the mower up, then set it back down and there was not noise, so my first thought was o great i blew out the gearbox, so i turned off the pto, raised the mower and looked under there and to my surprise there was no blades or carrier! i looked in the tangle of grass and brush and there it was so i pulled it out and put it ontop of the deck and took it back to the shop, all that had happened was the bolt holding it on fell off so it was a pretty simple fix

 

[Slamfire]

Man hard as I had to pull on the bolt holding mine on, when I wanted to replace the bearing and seal, you'd think it just couldn't fall off. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[slowrev]

Slamfire, they never come off if you want them to /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif