question 425 brothers
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tracdoc
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Oh man..... Stray is right. I live a stone's throw from Efland, and I can hear Fourteen growling as I write this. Fireworks a comin'. Head for the foxholes folks!
MossRoad
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Look, his ROPS is crooked, too. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
FOURTEEN
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Congratulations!! You prodded me into leaving my soft leather chair in front of my HP to travel through the cold and dark at midnight to the far reaches of my Morton to successfully vaporize another jestful anti-reversed wheel theory!! Your theory has a certain ring of plausibility to it, but at its core it is wrong!!
After 150 hours of operation with its reversed wheels, I have just verified that my PT-425 has not developed an ‘oilcan’ effect!! The tub sides at all four wheel locations are straight from top to bottom adjacent to the motor mounts!
However, using a 2’ framing square, I determined that each side of each tub tilts inward at the top by about 1/8”.
“” Looks like both the rear tires are leaning in at the top. “”
I naturally assumed that you were suffering from an optical delusion, but you indeed have good eyes, for all four tires do tilt inward at the tops!! Measured with the framing square at the tops and bottoms of the rims, which are 13” apart, the amounts of tilt inward from perpendicular to the concrete floor are: LR = -.34”, RR = -.36”, LF = -.20”, and RF = -.20”!! Since these tilts are all small, negative, and nearly equal at each end, perhaps the wheels were in fact designed by PT to have negative camber, just like most motor vehicles’ suspensions!!
Anyway, the real life benefits of reversed wheels for me have all been positive!!!!
PS: That’s a really nice looking PT-425 in the picture!! I'll bet that it is really stable on uneven ground!!
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After 150 hours of operation with its reversed wheels, I have just verified that my PT-425 has not developed an ‘oilcan’ effect!! The tub sides at all four wheel locations are straight from top to bottom adjacent to the motor mounts!
However, using a 2’ framing square, I determined that each side of each tub tilts inward at the top by about 1/8”.
“” Looks like both the rear tires are leaning in at the top. “”
I naturally assumed that you were suffering from an optical delusion, but you indeed have good eyes, for all four tires do tilt inward at the tops!! Measured with the framing square at the tops and bottoms of the rims, which are 13” apart, the amounts of tilt inward from perpendicular to the concrete floor are: LR = -.34”, RR = -.36”, LF = -.20”, and RF = -.20”!! Since these tilts are all small, negative, and nearly equal at each end, perhaps the wheels were in fact designed by PT to have negative camber, just like most motor vehicles’ suspensions!!
Anyway, the real life benefits of reversed wheels for me have all been positive!!!!
PS: That’s a really nice looking PT-425 in the picture!! I'll bet that it is really stable on uneven ground!!
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well im glad i must have good eyes too , anyhow im not sweating it long as it dont leak and keeps on moving , and i love the mower guys ive mowed the grass four times now and it definatley cuts my yard as good or better than i expected , ofcourse its not the scag commercial mower but then again the scag could do anything but mow so im happy as can be /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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