(quoted from post at 05:03:26 09/12/14)
So you must have backed into something? It happens. A friend borrowed the assembly off mine when he was headed for camp and didn't really trust the repair on his. He ended up buying a new one, and I don't believe that it was outrageous.
(quoted from post at 08:52:36 09/12/14) "So if you turn with the wheel on the ground it goes
sideways and wants to dig into the ground."
I would think sway bars would prevent that.
(quoted from post at 08:51:29 09/12/14) How good is the weld? Can you grind it away and reweld it? Would be worth a try before buying more parts to me. All else fails you can then spend money for replacement parts.
(quoted from post at 14:27:30 09/12/14)(quoted from post at 08:51:29 09/12/14) How good is the weld? Can you grind it away and reweld it? Would be worth a try before buying more parts to me. All else fails you can then spend money for replacement parts.
If I welded it on straight like it should be, the wheel would hold the back of the mower too high off the ground. I think that's why the idiot welded it on crooked like that.
(quoted from post at 07:59:04 09/13/14) I'd grind the weld off and then drill and bolt it at the correct angle. Bolted you could drill additional holes to make it adjustable for height.
Rick
(quoted from post at 10:01:56 09/13/14) Is the tailwheel height ajustable at all?
Are you willing to modify it?
I like the ajustablelity in graywolf's picture more than what is on my 'green' machine.
I might farmerize mine to be like that next spring.
Unless I can interest Mr. Howell in it since it has the right name tag that is ~wink~ LOL
(quoted from post at 08:50:32 09/13/14)(quoted from post at 07:59:04 09/13/14) I'd grind the weld off and then drill and bolt it at the correct angle. Bolted you could drill additional holes to make it adjustable for height.
Rick
You must have missed it when I said "If the top of it was straight up and down as it should be, then the wheel would have the back of the mower too high."
I think that's why the previous idiot welded it on crooked in the first place.
(quoted from post at 10:37:07 09/13/14)(quoted from post at 08:50:32 09/13/14)(quoted from post at 07:59:04 09/13/14) I'd grind the weld off and then drill and bolt it at the correct angle. Bolted you could drill additional holes to make it adjustable for height.
Rick
You must have missed it when I said "If the top of it was straight up and down as it should be, then the wheel would have the back of the mower too high."
I think that's why the previous idiot welded it on crooked in the first place.
If it's adjusted right the back of the mower is higher than the front.
You've had many suggestions on how to fix and you don't seem to like any of them. You waiting for someone to say they will fix it for you or something?
Rick
(quoted from post at 11:13:32 09/13/14)
Don't know where you buy your steel from but my suggestion in regards to steel would set you back $20 at most and nothing at all if you had some laying around like probably the rest of us do.
No one jumped on this thread offering you a Woods wheel assembly for you to buy so obviously what is the next best choice, fabricate something on your own.
Sorry if I offended you but your snide remarks are not warranted one bit.
As far as I'm concerned this thread is dead. I have many other threads that I can offer my help on the best way I can and only to repay all the help I received here in the past.
(quoted from post at 18:37:06 09/13/14) "You must have missed it when I said "
Was what you replied to me. No I didn't miss it. I was merely making sure you knew how to properly adjust the mower. But your reply wasn't a "what I really want are the original parts" reply, now was it.
Seeing as how no one piped up with "hey I got what you need" and you shot down every reply trying to help you and we are supposed to be grateful for your presence? As far as I'm concerned at this point I could have 20 of those things laying around and I'd tell you watch this as I posted a vid of a cousin running them through his crusher.
Rick
(quoted from post at 19:18:56 09/13/14) I see the pickle your in.
Guess you gonna just have to keep picking it up at end of row to turn cuz your not willing to do what most on here are willing to do.
If were me I would just get $40-$50 worth of steel and fab up what I want......ORRRRR I would go dumpster diving and get most of steel for FREE. Or do like my buddy does, looks in his friends metal sprap pile (like mine that I got free from dumpster diving).
(quoted from post at 03:31:07 09/15/14) hope you find what you are looking for, but doubtful.
Those tail wheels and their assembly take a pounding.
Good one will probably be attached to a good mower....not for sale.
look at it this way. If you want it fixed, no matter what, proper parts or homebrew, you have some cutting, grinding to do.
That upright steel going back to the wheel isn't supposed to be welded to the deck, and those bent tab bars running to it aren't supposed to be welded to it either.
The PO eliminated all adjustment doing that, then he messed up the wheel mount too......mess.
Proper setup pic is here and you have said you have the diagram too.
If the guy in the factory can make it, so can you.
(and without the factory overhead costs)
And like mentioned, when you are making something, if you see a 'better' way, do it.
After all, that's what factory engineers do every year.
(factory engineers are smart fellas, but not aliens or a deity......so changing their design or goof is no big deal)
good luck
ps factory parts...$600?...lol, at that price it better be attached to a mower AND a tractor to pull it.....
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