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Wrongway woods mower

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Dennis Stoeser

03-20-2001 22:30:38




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I bought a used woods rm59k 3 point mount pto drive finish mower. It turns back wards from all my other equpment. The blades can be changed for correct rotation but the bolts are lefthand thread and will probably unscrew during operation. No help from the local dealer or Woods.I need to know are there other spindles from another version with right hand thread that will fit? Or is the pully arrangement different for direction change? help!!

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Ray,IN

03-21-2001 16:30:23




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 Re: wrongway woods mower in reply to Dennis Stoeser, 03-20-2001 22:30:38  
Consider mounting a gearbox with 2 gears between PTO and mower. This will reverse rotation. Seems like I saw them advertised once for this application need. I'm too old to remember where though.



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Joe Adank

03-21-2001 14:42:24




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 Re: wrongway woods mower in reply to Dennis Stoeser, 03-20-2001 22:30:38  
Hey Dennis. I'm pretty sure your mower was made for an older style Kubota tractor. The first one of the smaller series, B 6000, power take off turned backwards. All the implaments were designed for them;Howard rotavators, woods mower. The best thing you can do would be to contact Woods. Maybe you could e-mail them: www.woodsonline.com make sure you have your model and serial number of your mower. Maybe they can tell you the remedy. Pretty sure your thinking in the right way, different spindles and a different belt route.

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Joe Adank

03-21-2001 14:42:09




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 Re: wrongway woods mower in reply to Dennis Stoeser, 03-20-2001 22:30:38  
Hey Dennis. I'm pretty sure your mower was made for an older style Kubota tractor. The first one of the smaller series, B 6000, power take off turned backwards. All the implaments were designed for them;Howard rotavators, woods mower. The best thing you can do would be to contact Woods. Maybe you could e-mail them: www.woodsonline.com make sure you have your model and serial number of your mower. Maybe they can tell you the remedy. Pretty sure your thinking in the right way, different spindles and a different belt route.

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paul

03-21-2001 08:48:24




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 Re: wrongway woods mower in reply to Dennis Stoeser, 03-20-2001 22:30:38  
So it's whacking the grass with the dull side of the blades?

Um, belly mount mowers can have a twist in the belt to make them go right, but I doubt that would work with a rear mount?

Would this have been built for a Cub (or whatever small IH it is) that has the pto running backwards to most all other tractors? There are also a few grey market Japaneese tractors that also have backwards pto's.Since they are kinda desparate to find a reversed mower, maybe you could sell it to one of them for more than you paid for it and get yourself a good mower?

--->Paul

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Duner Wi.

03-21-2001 06:24:19




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 Re: wrongway woods mower in reply to Dennis Stoeser, 03-20-2001 22:30:38  
Why do you want to change the direction of rotation from what the mfg. designed for it? RM59 turned opposite direction from most and have left hand threads on the spindles. I would think you will have more trouble with the drive belt also.



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Dennis

03-21-2001 20:42:00




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 Re: Re: wrongway woods mower in reply to Duner Wi., 03-21-2001 06:24:19  
Wrongway-rightway. which is right? Depends on your perspective. The pto shaft for this rm59k does turn opposit from standard. the spindle or blade rotation is the same. If this mower is used on what we call normal or clockwise rotation the blades will be going backwards. By researching the parts book at the dealer I found out that the difference is belt routing only. The idlers are in different locations. The spindles are the same LH thread. I have to relocate all 3 idlers and reroute the belt. Thanks to all of you that replyed.

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