Tearing up a stamped mower deck part 2

About 3 weeks ago this "friend" brings over his mower with a stamped deck that was cracked and dented.....I posted on site about it forget whether here or on the TT forums. 2 weeks ago he comes back with the problem again and he said we missed a couple of spots.

He had the deck, behind the discharge chute cracked in 4 or 5 places including the right rear vertical support from which the deck is attached to the tractor, ripped half way around. In short I told him he needed a new deck that I wasn't going to attempt to twist that back together and weld if for my usual price of $0. It cam in today and I put it back together for him.

He backs his truck up, gets his ramps out and installs them, not the curved type that levels the mower before going onto the tail gate, the straight kind that make a sharp angle at the rear of the gate.

Gets on his mower takes it out in the yard, runs it through it's paces, gives me a nod and goes to load it. Starts up the ramp and when the deck gets to that spot it binds (as one would expect). He ensures it's in the max raised position and backs down about a foot and tries it again and again it binds.

He then backs all the way down and about 5' out from the ramps. Slams the pedal down, engine at governor rpm, blasts up to the ramps, rattles to the top bam bam bam across the sharp interface and nods like he accomplished something as he stops.

I told him you keep doing that and you are going to be out another $300 for another deck, another $100 for shipping, and probably another $200 for somebody else to fix it because "I've had enough of your .........

In retrospect before I saw hime do that I couldn't figure how he could rip his deck apart in 96 hours of operation even though the inside of the deck was full of dents from hitting rocks and he is horribly rough with his equipment. Now I know.

Can't fix stupid.

They use selective breading in animals for better meat, more eggs, more milk, etc. In humans they are breading for more stupid.

Yesssssss

I've got a brother like that. You should hear the boat and pickup transmission story.

I sold Snappers for several years. I sold this old lady a 28" RER.
She came back with the deck belt shredded. I replaced it under warranty. She came back again. This time with the belt shredded and belt guide broken.

I repaired it again and told her she must be running over something or have a deep hole she is driving into. She said she did not.

I went to her house to watch her mow. In her front yard she had brand new sidewalks. She tried to drive over the sidewalk. The sidewalk was about eight inches high. When the mower straddles the sidewalk it raises the deck and causes the belt to come off.

She insisted I replace the belt again under warranty. I told her Snapper would not cover that. She would have to pay for this belt and the second belt.

Boy, Did she get hot!! She thought I was going to replace her belt for free every time she mowed.

+200 on that.

Replaced the blades on a "Lawn Experts" Gravely Z260 four times this Summer so far..

Guy that works with him told me that he hits the same metal pipe that marks a property line every time he mows it destroying a new set of blades.

That's the way this guy is. Example, one day he wanted me to help him chase his horse around the pasture to get it in the corral. I told him that I had a horse like that once. If I wanted to do that I wouldn't have sold it and still have it. I didn't go. It is never ending. I don't know how he wound up in the country in the first place. I feel sorry for him so I help him.....most of the time.

yes shop stays busy of people like that. see and hear it about every day loading off trailers etc. two customers ripped brand new mower decks off in first week and keep wanting it warrantied. can't fix stupid.