My damn riding mower

[baboon]

Last year it started dropping the drive belt to the blades. So I bought a new belt and one of the keepers got moved. I thought we had it fixed but it’s starting to do it again. It’s harder for me to get down and up than the fix.

Years back I had a raised bed put in for a garden. The squirrels ate everything but the jalapenos. Then the wife got sick and I stopped trying. The weeds and grasses were knee high. I reload the weed whacker and start cutting it down. Everything was fine until I hit the tomato towers that I thought I gave to Larry next door.

The storms pulled my patio door off it hinges. I hit Larry up for some screws and the Dewalt battery is dead. Kind of think it’s permanently dead.

Time to go in and shower to get ready for some rib eyes tonight. I think I’m gonna shave my head for the summer again.

 

[RaySendero]

I feel for ya!!!
My mover requires more maintenance time and part $$$.$$
Than all my vehicles put together!

 

[RaySendero]

PS: My mower was doing the same thing - Found a small chunk of wood lodged it drive pully.

 

[ramndump]

Spindles maybe???

 

[baboon]

Spindles maybe???

The mower was bought new 2021

 

[Bozz10mm]

My mower got pinned under a dead tree limb that broke during the storms the other night.

 

[Vaquero]

That'll buff out.

 

[striker55]

I've been looking at robot mower, will work good in the backyard not too good in the front.

 

[ramndump]

I've been looking at robot mower, will work good in the backyard not too good in the front.

The cost tho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gordo]

My mower got pinned under a dead tree limb that broke during the storms the other night. View attachment 451630

Craftsman, that's your problem. Trees try to eat them all the time.
Time for a new one.
Give me your address, and I will come pick it up, as I am making a run to Newel salvage soon, and I can drop it off for you.

Do you need a chain saw?

 

[G O B]

$300 for a new gas tank. Cost of ownership, and Texas sun.
Still less trouble than running goats

 

[mroper]

Dewalt battery is dead. Kind of think it’s permanently dead.

Try hooking it up to a twelve volt trickle charger for a few hourst. That is what I had to do with my porter cable ones.
I had a hinge on a gate rust out on me too this weekend.

 

[striker55]

 

[Whistler]

Last year it started dropping the drive belt to the blades. So I bought a new belt and one of the keepers got moved. I thought we had it fixed but it’s starting to do it again. It’s harder for me to get down and up than the fix

I had one doing that, turned out to be the belt tension spring. Bought a similar one at tractor supply and cut it to length. Hope yours is that simple.

 

[vmax]

The mower was bought new 2021

Long time ago i could see that and say nah..can't be bearings or pulleys..its only a couple years old. But nowadays..they throw whatever cheap crap that they can get away with even on the nicer mowers

 

[baboon]

Try hooking it up to a twelve volt trickle charger for a few hourst. That is what I had to do with my porter cable ones.
I had a hinge on a gate rust out on me too this weekend.

This one still took a charge from the regular charger.