More stupid bushhog questions

[Slippy]

dannyk: One more thing to watch. As you lift the mower, watch that the drive shaft does not hit the deck. You can bend or break it if you not careful.

 

[Freds]

I have a stupid bushhog question. No sense starting a new topic.
What is up with the rear wheel being mounted so the pivot point is on an angle? I have everything greased and moving freely by hand when the deck is raised, but whenever I make a sharp turn the wheel just skids along sideways and tears up a chunk of turf. My BH is a KK.
Has anyone here tried cutting and rewelding the brackets for the rear wheel so the pivot rod is more plumb? It seems like that would help.

Thanks,
Fred

Another thing about raising the deck, check the clearance for the toplink with the ROPS folded down. I "customized" my toplink last year after I moved the pins on my BH down because it wasn't lifting high enough and then proceeded to raise it to the max with the ROPS down. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[BB_TX]

<font color="blue"> Has anyone here actually known of anyone that has had a bush hog flip over on them because they used a chain link </font>
Jerry - Like you, I have seen this mentioned a number of times but have never seen an actual accident report. While theoritically possible, I think the chances of it happening with a CUT are very remote. I think it would take a fairly heavy and powerful tractor in relation to the size and weight of the cutter to cause it to flip up. I am fairly confident that my tractor would suddenly stop in it tracks if I hit something that substantial. It would take a stump or other object probably a foot tall or so to catch the top front of the deck and stop it. I wouldn't run over something that tall if I could see it. And I wouldn't be going that fast in grass so tall that I could not see it if I had not been there before.

 

[BB_TX]

<font color="blue"> whenever I make a sharp turn the wheel just skids along sideways </font>
I have seen others complain of the same problem. However, mine turns freely when I turn. And it even completely rotates when I back up. If it turns freely when off the ground, there must be something binding somewhere due to the weight. It's possible that the angle on mine is not as great as yours.

 

[Whiskey]

Freds:

The angle is spose to be there, look at most caster type wheels there is almost always an angle.

Recheck the part of the mower where the back wheel brace goes through something in there is bound wheel should spin 360 deg. with load or not (K.K mower probley has bushings top and bottom, make sure a bushing doesn't have a good sized burr on it or welding slag binding on it)

Whiskey

 

[Freds]

Mine rotates, also, when I back up. It's just when I turn sharp that it skids.

I'll check into something binding when I put it back on. It turns freely when it is raised, so you have me thinking, Whiskey, that it's in the lower bushing that I might have a burr. When the weight is on it.

Thanks

 

[milkman]

Thank you for that post, well said.