jd 15' batwing / 2000$

Any idea on tire prices? Are they 'normal'.. or something special and outrageous.

Owner is a big horse farm in the area.. just got new mowers and are selling the old ones.

Money sound right?

Soundguy

Wouldn't come down any, but the unit was straight.. no holes in the deck.. very little rust.. blades had no nicks.. etc.

We backed her right on my 16'longx7' wide car hauler and i drove home on a back road a tad slow... thing was good and heavy 9 still within trailer limit ) but we couldn't get a perfect ballance.. opted for a tad more tounge weight for safety.

Now.. I can't wait till I've got an evening off and see if the QD's on the hose will fit my NH 7610s.. or if I have to swap couplers.

unit is a 1517.. or a 1715.. can't remember which..

Thanks

Soundguy

I need a bigger mower on my MF255. A fellow offered me an 8 foot, forget the name, but it was an excellent mower. It had the HEAVY duty skid plates under the sides and all with dual wheels. ADD has set in but it is a top name brand mower. He wanted $1500 but it looked awful heavy and my MF255 hydraulics aren't what they should be so I passed. I was a little skeptical about trying to pull an 8 foot with the Massey because I cut some heavy fescue and it will strain with the 6 foot.

What I was really worried about was having to rebuild that hydro system on that Massey.

Congrats on the purchase.

I'm going to pull it with my Nh 7610s.. it's about 90ish hp.. so i think it will be a good match for an easy pull. I also have a 5000 that the prev owner said should pull it fine.. however.. I think I will swap my 'old' 10' mower that i had been pulling with the 7610s. 15' of cut ought to cut my mowing time down vs the 10' cut. besides.. the 10' mower is a 3pt.. and this 15' is drag style.

here's a pic.

Soundguy

The 5000 should do OK too if you were just clipping pastures but I bet it would work it pretty good in thicker stiff. The other tractor is a better match.

They runa lot of those bat wing JD's around here but mostly just clipping cotton stalks in the fall. I've seen them do that with 70 HP tractors regularly but I guess it just depends on what you are cutting I guess.

Also.. left side wing on batwing is stuck up. Can't figure out why.. safety latch is unhooked... can't see what might be holding it up.. any ideas? I was swapping the wings back and forth with the lift wheels to make sure it really was a bad remote.. and it is. Right wing will drop and rais fine.. left with is just 'UP'.. got too dark to keep working on it safely.. plus I was bumme dout about my remote not working. Tractor is an 02 and I've never even used them.. wonder whats up. On the 'bad' remote, when you pressurize it, the line jumps a bit like it is pressurizing.. then nothing.. like the relief is opening WAY early, or is stuck open.. etc..

thanks

Soundguy

The remotes on my tractor have never been used.. never even had the caps open. the female qd's look nice and shiny and have good orings.. I spraye dthem down with wd-40 both male and female side befroe plugging them in.. also wiped the male end clean so as to not introduce anything bad into the system.

I took the whole remote pack off today and took it to NH to look at.. hopefully they will have it done by next week, or I'll be hitching the 10' mower up to the 5000 to mow with..

Soundguy

Soundguy