Dan Newbery
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I've posted this question on a couple other forums... no definitive answer as of yet.
I got this finish mower with my second 8n Ford tractor. I cannot for the life of me find out who made it. I've searched through literally thousands of pictures on google... to no avail.
Some say Landpride... some say Woods... some say cobbled together homemade from a John Deere deck.
This is what I know so far:
The lift arm connections look like Woods (just straight pins, not the dual sided notch as Landpride units seem to have).
The welds are all professional looking, and it's not been re-painted, and deck and frame are same color and same state of weather... so the homemade thing is highly unlikely based on that (I would think).
The top link connection is very different from anything else I see in pics of Woods, Landpride, John Deere, and even others what aren't necessarily yellow.
The unit really works well... it is missing the belt guard, and of course the labels which would have had the model name and number on it. We hooked it up and pulled it through some 2 to 2 1/2 foot field grass, and it chewed it right up and left a mowed lawn looking path behind it. It has "gator" type blades on it, probably an update from original, but maybe not (?)...
Maybe it's a foreign made thing, but the apparent age of it tells me it's probably been made here in America. Maybe it was made by a small outfit that went out of business shortly after starting up. It's a mystery, for sure. I was able to match up a belt for it at TSC today... but if I ever need pulleys or a gear box, I'm at a loss.
The gear box does have the numbers: 1f.141.a and series code number 141.303.00 This search did lead to "one" dead end post that referenced a Landpride mower, but I couldn't get anything definitive from that link.
Here are some pics...


I got this finish mower with my second 8n Ford tractor. I cannot for the life of me find out who made it. I've searched through literally thousands of pictures on google... to no avail.
Some say Landpride... some say Woods... some say cobbled together homemade from a John Deere deck.
This is what I know so far:
The lift arm connections look like Woods (just straight pins, not the dual sided notch as Landpride units seem to have).
The welds are all professional looking, and it's not been re-painted, and deck and frame are same color and same state of weather... so the homemade thing is highly unlikely based on that (I would think).
The top link connection is very different from anything else I see in pics of Woods, Landpride, John Deere, and even others what aren't necessarily yellow.
The unit really works well... it is missing the belt guard, and of course the labels which would have had the model name and number on it. We hooked it up and pulled it through some 2 to 2 1/2 foot field grass, and it chewed it right up and left a mowed lawn looking path behind it. It has "gator" type blades on it, probably an update from original, but maybe not (?)...
Maybe it's a foreign made thing, but the apparent age of it tells me it's probably been made here in America. Maybe it was made by a small outfit that went out of business shortly after starting up. It's a mystery, for sure. I was able to match up a belt for it at TSC today... but if I ever need pulleys or a gear box, I'm at a loss.
The gear box does have the numbers: 1f.141.a and series code number 141.303.00 This search did lead to "one" dead end post that referenced a Landpride mower, but I couldn't get anything definitive from that link.
Here are some pics...

