Posted by DJL on June 01, 2009 at 20:14:14 from (65.172.101.94):
Well fellas, usually I"m not one to rant and rave on this forum I just usually keep it pretty simple. We"ll here"s what"s going on. Year ago, at a farm auction I bought a Rhino TW84 3point mount rotary mower. That"s a very heavy duty rough cut shredder/mower. It"s got like a 145HP rated gear box etc. It was represented as missing the front 1/2 of the PTO shaft. (it had the slip clutch and back half to gear box). The machine had it"s normal wear and tear with faded paint and a few dents, but no welds or bends. All the chain guarding was in place etc. The mower was sitting down in a bunch of ice/snow at the auction, basically froze down because I couldn"t brush away any of the snow ice. So......I didn"t look underneath it. BIG MISTAKE. Anyway, I bought it, brought it home and set it off, for a rainy day project. Well just got into it. Here"s what I found, broken output shaft from under the gearbox, missing blades and stump jumper blade holder. So, I crack open the gearbox and all the gearing looks good and bearings looked okay. I ordered the broken output shaft from Rhino $250 bucks, blades $70, stumpjumper blade holder $540 OUCH! Now comes the bad one....front half of PTO, dealer tells me $220 for complete front half of shaft, I order it. I get it, it won"t mate up with back half. Dealer tells me I have to buy complete shaft all as one from tractor u-joint clear back including slip clutch....$1700. I tell him no way. Dealer orders me just the shaft, guard, and u-joint with tractor end coupler and u-joint cross for me to assemble. Cost....$580 OUCH!!!! What"s the deal? They told me I could get the assembled shaft for $220, now I have to assemble the parts myself for $580??? Long story short, I now have a shredder that"s worth maybe $1500 but I"ve got $1440 in parts plus the $450 I paid for it. I guess it"s buyer beware huh? I wanted to do this on a shoestring budget, but no dice. Live and learn. I now have a gallon of Rhino orange paint coming for it and a decal kit. Sometimes it makes me tired, trying to have something nice, without paying new price for it, but instead doing it with sweat equity, and still getting every nickle and dime beat out of you.
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