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mr.mindless

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #120 on: June 23, 2024, 12:37:57 AM »
Has been all good since new starter.
Just did oil and filter at 2094 hours, almost 200 hours in 4 years.

Had a shop accident. This thing is not conducive to being picked up on a lift, and I found out the hard way that both right side lift arms on one of my lifts don't have good stops (the toothed ones that engage when off ground level to keep the arms from moving). Will be addressing that shortly.

Only casualty is my oil drain trolly and  big oil mess from 2 changes worth of oil, and some mildly bent tin on the tractor body. Didn't seem to take out any hoses or anything. Something else may come to light later, like a bent deck or bent axle or something.

It fell from about 5' while I was standing right next to it. gave no warning at all, and _something_ just barely grazed my head. I think it was one of the rear lift arms (a front one slipped). Not enough to injure at all, just feel.

This will only ever be hung to pick it up in the future. Second time it's slipped on me, out of three or maybe four times picking it up.
No lotto for me, my luck got spent a few times over.

Took longer to clean up 2ish gallons of oil spilled than the rest of the day's maintenance and mowing.
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #121 on: June 24, 2024, 08:23:57 AM »
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #122 on: June 24, 2024, 02:59:05 PM »
glad it wasnt a bigger event.  best to take it as a learning point for future!


my mower doesnt fit well on my lift either.  it was sketch this year again.  i may add lift points now ha

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #123 on: July 09, 2024, 10:20:28 AM »
Definitely bent some things up front. Raised the deck a bit and it’s still too low. Can tell one of the big casters is bent and about an inch shorter than the other.
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #124 on: April 20, 2025, 01:20:35 PM »
Seems I may need to slap a tube in the right front. It’s already tubed and I think already slimed but leaks almost as cars as I add air.

Back yard is looking long already :(
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #125 on: May 07, 2025, 08:59:49 AM »
still happy with the ATV tires?  I was talking with Jeffs buddy Stratton yesterday that has a similar forward deck unit but his complaint is the turf tires.  i was gona send him some picture of your unit from page 2/3

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #126 on: May 07, 2025, 10:55:19 AM »
They tear out pretty good sometimes if you spin a tire or pivot turn, but if you're on a well established lawn it's not deep enough to matter. Roots stay and it comes right back

I mowed 99% of my swamp successfully yesterday morning and didn't get stuck anywhere. Turf tires never could have done that.


I removed the leaky tube and the naked tire has held since.
I put the hole in the tube facing down so the slime would find it, and it has held pressure since as well. 2 fixes for the price of a dismount/remount.
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #127 on: May 07, 2025, 11:16:55 AM »
love rereading my own threads.
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #128 on: May 12, 2025, 07:59:54 PM »
Victory as dead weight, surprisingly

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #129 on: May 13, 2025, 08:07:45 AM »
My Sara got our Ferris suck yesterday too.. but she was on flat ground.. just found a wet patch

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #130 on: June 04, 2025, 10:33:57 PM »
Buried it, solo recovered w the jeep.



Jeep is a birds nest,
Just in the last week or 2





I am pretty seriously shopping for a better wet area mower. Would be nice to get one before the ground firms up so I can flatten some of these ruts
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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #131 on: June 07, 2025, 10:40:01 AM »
Yarbo, let it do the work for you  ;D

the price tag though  :o

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #132 on: June 14, 2025, 01:01:47 PM »
Thee miles walked. 5 tanks of gas burned. This is why I don’t trim but every other year.

Didn’t do a single pine tree in the windrows. Just the buildings, shop lot, fences and some of the pond inlet ditch. Seems like a job to consider hiring out lol

Where’s the neighbor kids who mow for $20 these days?

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #133 on: June 14, 2025, 09:54:06 PM »
how do you walk 3 miles on 4 acers lol

42% was on sale for 55$ for a 2.5 gal at TSC this week, i plan to hit my overgrowth and gravel when i get time in the the next few weeks

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Re: Dumb mower
« Reply #134 on: June 15, 2025, 03:04:53 PM »
Doesn’t seem to knock my gravel growth back for more than a week or two, and I don’t want to put it around my trees.

Most of the walking was back and forth for gas and line. Filled the spool twice too.
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