leonz
Super Member
I did not bother with the 44 inch snowblower for the LA115 again this year as I did not have the money for replacement V belts almost which are almost $300.00 AND the bloody snow blower can only use JD supplied V belts AND the substitute GATES A115 V belt cannot be used for the driven V belt. It is easier for me to just keep the battery tender plugged in for the battery on the la115 as they are almost $85.00 each now and the cost of electricity to keep the battery up is less than the cost of a new battery every year.
To use the "A" V belts I have to have all the pulleys being 8 of them machined to accept A size V belts for both the mower deck and the snow blower.
It takes 4 hours to remove the parts needed to take the old belt out and install the new one also. I would have to cut the cross brace in half to make the repair faster.
Plus the dealer that sold me the lawn mower in 2011 shipped the snow blower without all the parts as RAD shipped hundreds of these snow blowers from Canada short of parts and I only found this out as a good friend from another JD dealership found a service bulletin from john deere detailing which snow blower models were shipped short of parts from the manufacturer "RAD"
I will not buy another product from these folks again and being told "you get what you pay for" by another dealer for pissed me off even more as spending almost 4K for a lawn mower and snow blower and snow chains that did not fit should have given me a better product.
When a pair of 20 and 12 year old single stage 2 cycle engine Toro Snow Pups(S200 and CCR GTS3000) can out perform a 2 stage snow blower using a 19 horse power engine something tells me the product quality is poor and the dealer that I bough the product from is not all that great either.
PS the snow plow I bought for it is another POS.
To use the "A" V belts I have to have all the pulleys being 8 of them machined to accept A size V belts for both the mower deck and the snow blower.
It takes 4 hours to remove the parts needed to take the old belt out and install the new one also. I would have to cut the cross brace in half to make the repair faster.
Plus the dealer that sold me the lawn mower in 2011 shipped the snow blower without all the parts as RAD shipped hundreds of these snow blowers from Canada short of parts and I only found this out as a good friend from another JD dealership found a service bulletin from john deere detailing which snow blower models were shipped short of parts from the manufacturer "RAD"
I will not buy another product from these folks again and being told "you get what you pay for" by another dealer for pissed me off even more as spending almost 4K for a lawn mower and snow blower and snow chains that did not fit should have given me a better product.
When a pair of 20 and 12 year old single stage 2 cycle engine Toro Snow Pups(S200 and CCR GTS3000) can out perform a 2 stage snow blower using a 19 horse power engine something tells me the product quality is poor and the dealer that I bough the product from is not all that great either.
PS the snow plow I bought for it is another POS.
