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I would not recommend installing casters or any type of wheels on the front, if they ever get bent under or fall off, the cutter blade could launch them back at you, or get tangled up under the deck etc. Better off with some limiting chains like was shown. I would imagine if they were stout enough and firmly attached, say pipe inside of pipe, with adjustment hols, welded to the deck might be ok, but, you don't want em ever coming off, I've had a tail wheel get under the deck once, not good by any means. Just for reference as to what can happen with rotary mowers, when I was a kid, I was using a JD 2010 with a bush hog brand rotary cutter, farmer wanted to use the land again for crops, all the fields needed to be cut, lot of mowing to do, about 50 acres, and somehow a round rock got under the deck about a 6"-8" size smooth rock, that mower launched this rock up over an old hedgerow, lined with some decent size trees, and into the next field over. I have never seen anything like that since, darned thing went right up the back of the tractor, not sure how close it came to me in the seat, but I saw the rest of it happen, from when it was just over my head, until it disappeared from sight.
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