We've all had them....those days, or group of days when we're working hard, and everything just goes to #$%!
Last Thursday night we pulled the pool cover off above ground pool for the season. Put the cover away, then decided to mow the back yard. Within a few minutes I managed to wrap 90 feet of pool cover cable around the mower blades....I overlooked picking that cable up! I spent the rest of Thursday evening pulling off the mower deck and cutting tiny segments of wire off the mower spindles (90 minutes), then spent the better part of Friday morning trying to remount the 48" deck on my trusty Wheelhorse 266H (4.5 hours, and a total PITA). I got the mower up and running around lunch time and proceeded to mow the lawn....it cut like crap, and didn't sound right. Something was obviously not right. Refusing to pull the mower deck off again, I elevated the mower enough to work under neath, and found 2 blades were upside down, and one was loose. That was a relatively easy fix... an hour later I was back in business, and started mowing the back yard again. We have a tire swing hanging off an old ash tree in the back yard. For the past 8 years, I've slowly pushed the front of the tractor into the tire, it swings out of the way, and I mow under it. Today, I did the same thing, but the tire caught on the hood. The Wheelhorse has a foot activated hydrostatic drive on the right floor board....it's been a wonderful thing up until today. I first realized the tire was caught on the hood by the sound of cracking plastic. Instead of hitting the brake, I instinctively mashed the hystrostatic drive all the way forward with my right foot thinking it was the brake, and darn near yanked the hole hood off that tractor! It's badly cracked and mangled, and it managed to break the cruise control off the dashboard (no big loss for my yard, but still). It's been a rough 36 hours since I fed the mower that pool cover cable!
Thanks for letting me vent!
Last Thursday night we pulled the pool cover off above ground pool for the season. Put the cover away, then decided to mow the back yard. Within a few minutes I managed to wrap 90 feet of pool cover cable around the mower blades....I overlooked picking that cable up! I spent the rest of Thursday evening pulling off the mower deck and cutting tiny segments of wire off the mower spindles (90 minutes), then spent the better part of Friday morning trying to remount the 48" deck on my trusty Wheelhorse 266H (4.5 hours, and a total PITA). I got the mower up and running around lunch time and proceeded to mow the lawn....it cut like crap, and didn't sound right. Something was obviously not right. Refusing to pull the mower deck off again, I elevated the mower enough to work under neath, and found 2 blades were upside down, and one was loose. That was a relatively easy fix... an hour later I was back in business, and started mowing the back yard again. We have a tire swing hanging off an old ash tree in the back yard. For the past 8 years, I've slowly pushed the front of the tractor into the tire, it swings out of the way, and I mow under it. Today, I did the same thing, but the tire caught on the hood. The Wheelhorse has a foot activated hydrostatic drive on the right floor board....it's been a wonderful thing up until today. I first realized the tire was caught on the hood by the sound of cracking plastic. Instead of hitting the brake, I instinctively mashed the hystrostatic drive all the way forward with my right foot thinking it was the brake, and darn near yanked the hole hood off that tractor! It's badly cracked and mangled, and it managed to break the cruise control off the dashboard (no big loss for my yard, but still). It's been a rough 36 hours since I fed the mower that pool cover cable!
Thanks for letting me vent!
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