woods mower damage ???

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2008

Good Day: Hopefully this is the right forum for this... Problem is this i have a Woods HSS72 mower, and the right side decking is now cut through for about 4 ft or so with a nice blade circle around the top.
One end of the crossbar that the blades hook onto is bent upward.
The question is the idea of heating it in a forge and straigntening the crossbar end, will it have any strength to stay straight? bite the bullet and get new?
The bend is at the section where the blade pin goes through, basically a piece of heavy flatbar it looks like, but better quality than normal.
whats the thoughts.
thanks

Big Mike · Aug 9, 2008

Sounds FUBARED!!!! what the Hell didja hit??????

Jerry/MT · Aug 9, 2008

An uncontained failure on a rotary mower can end up in a real tragedy. You see the damage that striking something can do to the rotor so you can probably imagine what a failed repair to a rotating piece of structure can do.
You have obviously seriously damaged the blade support structure. This structure apparently is bar shaped and bent upward. (Surprisingly, it sounds like you don"t have a disc shaped "stump jumper" that the blades attach to.)Heating the structure will change the material properties of it and not usually for the better.
If this were my equipment, the only thing I would consider repairing is the outer shell. I would replace the damaged rotating parts if the gear box and blade shaft/bearings were still ok. I"ve seen what happens when rotating machinery comes apart (aircraft propulsion systems) so I"ll admit I"m biased about the consequences of attmpting to repair damaged rotating structure.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 10, 2008

I also have a woods mine is a cadet 72.It probably has the same blade bar. If it was mine I would straighten it, but would not use heat. I would use a press. If it is close the pin hole it may damage the hole, and you will end up buying one anyway. Stan

Anonymous-0 · Aug 10, 2008

Just the comments i was looking for:
Just to close out and clear things a bit, i have the stump jumper unit, except the bent crossbar end has punched itself through the jumper material and the blade has since rolled up an edge around that area, now the blade doesn't swing around as it should.
Big mike: as to what i hit? i have numerous places where they have orginal mother nature installed "granite lawn oraments", i suspect the jumper device bounced it and scored a direct hit on the pin mount area, or i had raised it to pass over and then dropped it to early or front-end bounce, and hit it that way.
And it is best to REPLACE it with new for my own being and others, i had a blade break off once before and come forward and into the rear tire, of course it was the new tire put on the day before.
thanks guys

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