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$50.00 Finish mower

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JRT

05-01-2008 21:29:05




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Last fall I was reading the classified adds and saw a 5' finish mower for sale. Asking 75.00 for it. I called and he still had it. The thing looked rough and he said he had problems keeping a shear pin where the pto shaft joins the gearbox. After hearing that I offered him 50.00 and he said take it away. I hooked it up last week to see what I had thinking I may have wasted 50 bucks. He was right. 50 feet in tall grass and the shear pin snapped. I put in another very hard bolt and 20 minutes later, it snapped. I started looking around the shop for something hard that might not shear and found a big broken hay tedder tooth exactly the size of that shear pin so I made one. 3 hours later after beating that thing through unlevel ground, big sticks, occassional rocks, and who knows what, I am still mowing. But, the thing seems to be making a racket under the gear box. I suspected bad bearings somewhere so I took all the shields off the check it out. All bearings looked as good as new. The problem was where a double 15" pulley goes on the vertical shaft of the gearbox. It was flopping around on the shaft. I pulled it off and there was a 1/4 inch pin stuck through a 1/2 in. hole in the shaft where someone had done a quick fix at some point. I found that the correct pin was a wierd shaped thing that was 5/8 inch half way and then narrowed down to a 3/8 inch to pass through the shaft. I remembered my special drawer in the shop which is labeled "odd shaped bolts". I scratched around in the drawer and found one that I thought might fit. Bingo, it fit in that odd hole like it was made for it. Now ain't that a piece of luck. While I am at it,tomorrow, I am going to paint this old machine. I think I may have something here.

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cadet trooper

05-03-2008 18:47:10




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 Re: $50.00 Finish mower in reply to JRT, 05-01-2008 21:29:05  
I see it all the time but just don"t have the shed space to store what I fix just hate to try and sell it because I feel guilty because it was either given to me or cost literally pennies strange huh? The one thing I just couldn"t part with is a 6hp 2250psi Craftsman power washer that was only used a couple times was stored on its side and oil got in the cylinder I drained the oil dried out the cylinder cleaned the plug and it works fine I use it all the time new it sold for $400 the kicker was my wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and it was a power washer the very next day I was offered this one,Hmmm. CT

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jose bagge

05-02-2008 13:03:22




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 love those bargain finds! in reply to JRT, 05-01-2008 21:29:05  
ya gotta love a "lucky" deal. I just picked up a bunch of lawn equipment from an on-line auction for Chesapeake County schools. I got two riding mowers, 3 belt drive Yazoo push mowers, a gas edger and a gas genrator for 75.62 total. The "lucky" buy was listed as a "Pincor edger" without picture- i was the only bidder at $1.50. Ended up being a 110/220 generator powered by a 7 hp Briggs that fired up first pull!

Congrats on your lucky find!

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Jeff-oh

05-02-2008 10:37:25




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 Re: $50.00 Finish mower in reply to JRT, 05-01-2008 21:29:05  
very nice.



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Tradititonal Farmer

05-02-2008 03:08:43




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 Re: $50.00 Finish mower in reply to JRT, 05-01-2008 21:29:05  
More and more deals like that around most people today don't seem to know much about the machines they have,bought a perfectly fine Ranson (made by Bobcat) walk behind industrial mower Saturday for $20 the problem a stopped up fuel filter.



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Mathias NY

05-02-2008 04:37:41




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 Re: $50.00 Finish mower in reply to Tradititonal Farmer, 05-02-2008 03:08:43  
I definately agree with JRT, people just don't have the compentancey to maintain the tools they buy.

A guy I work with gave me a used Craftsman lawn mower ($300 value). He said it would run for a few minutes before it would stall and he was tired of dealing with it. I noticed the air filter was severely plugged, so I changed that $4 item, and have a very nice lawn mower now.



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sbin

05-01-2008 23:30:19




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 Re: $50.00 Finish mower in reply to JRT, 05-01-2008 21:29:05  
Don't you love it when a deal works out!



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