pilonidal
Silver Member
A little incident happened, let me set it up. I have 15.5 hrs on my CK20HST I mowed with it intially the first two days after I received it knocking down the weeds around the place. I am working on planting grass. About two hrs total time using the MMM. I took the deck off about 3 weeks ago, because I have been doing FEL loader work with it. The deck just bangs around otherwise. I put the deck back on today to knock the weeds back down. No problems putting it on. Hooked up all four lift bolts and the pto shaft. The shaft turned freely with my hands when hooked up to the deck. Great, doubled checked everything, bolts all pinned in place. PTO hooked up and locked in place, the deck raises and lowers with no problems. Off to whack some weeds. Drive down to the end of the field, put the tractor in low and bring it up to 2000 rpm and engage the mower, didn't lower the deck as the stuff is tall and would take a couple of passes. I am creeping along till about 150 yards into the cut and BANG!!!!!!! (it was a loud bang) The tractor stops dead. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Holy !@#$%, I run around the tractor and inspect it and the deck. I didn't hit anything. Put it in neutral and disengage the pto and attempt a restart, thinking please, please turn over with no frightening noises. Whew, it starts right up with no problems and I slowly back up to look under the deck. Nothing there!!!!!!! Back to the garage. I try to turn the pto shaft by hand, it ain't moving!!!
I disconnect the pto shaft from the deck leaving it attached at the pto. It turns freely by hand now attached to the tractor but not while attached to the deck. I can't turn the blades by hand either. Man, I guess the gearbox on the deck froze up!!!!!!! One thing I remember. I guess about a 100 hundred yards into the cut I hear a very, very faint whine coming from the deck. I write it off as grass and weeds getting wrapped around the pulleys and whipping around the deck. The gear box is dry, no leaks at all. Sigh, guess I'll be taking it back off tomorrow and into the dealer Monday. Just thankful the tractor itself seems okay after the abrupt stop. Anyone else have MMM problems?
I disconnect the pto shaft from the deck leaving it attached at the pto. It turns freely by hand now attached to the tractor but not while attached to the deck. I can't turn the blades by hand either. Man, I guess the gearbox on the deck froze up!!!!!!! One thing I remember. I guess about a 100 hundred yards into the cut I hear a very, very faint whine coming from the deck. I write it off as grass and weeds getting wrapped around the pulleys and whipping around the deck. The gear box is dry, no leaks at all. Sigh, guess I'll be taking it back off tomorrow and into the dealer Monday. Just thankful the tractor itself seems okay after the abrupt stop. Anyone else have MMM problems?
