Is your tractor front wheel drive? Or is reverse just a low enough gear that
you don't break free?
Too bad my 1/3 acre can't justify one of these toys :)
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: ext epetrevich@relavis.com [mailto:epetrevich@relavis.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:36 AM
To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Ride on mowers (was RE: weed trimmers)
I guess I should have stated that currently I leave my snow chains on year
round. Doesn't help much.
One thing that is weird, the tractor will climb the hill in reverse, but
not going forward.
Any ideas?
inch
"Madurski, Ronald
M." To:
epetrevich@relavis.com,
<RONALD.M.MADURSKI shop-talk@autox.team.net
@saic.com> cc:
Subject: RE: Ride on
mowers (was RE: weed
06/21/2001 01:40 trimmers)
PM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: epetrevich@relavis.com [mailto:epetrevich@relavis.com]
> FWIW, I do have a problem with hills on it. I was thinking
> of putting on
> bigger tires, but I don't have clearance for them.
> Does anyone know what tire is the best for traction? (I
> don't care if it
> rips up the lawn a little)
>
> I'm pretty sure it has "agriculture" tires on it now. Any
> advice? Should
> I try "turf" tires?
Try chains. They work wonders for me. I've gone just the opposite route
as
the rest of the respondents. I bought a 71 (or somewhere around there by
the S/N) Cub Cadet 126 lawn tractor. 12 HP Kohler, 48" deck. It came with
a plow, blade, and disc. This thing is absolutely indestructible. Most of
the frame is 1/4" steel. The deck is massive. The motors been bored .040
over and the head was shaved for truing (don't remember how much) and it
just chugs away no matter what I do to it. The only problems I've had are
when I get in the mud the weight sinks it quickly (the chains just let me
get stuck deeper :-). It used to be a very poor climber. Probably due to
the 30 year old tires, but the chains make it climb anything. There's one
spot in the yard, that is always wet from a spring and it's a steep hill,
that I need to lean back to get more weight on the drive wheels for it to
keep moving. BTW, I live in WV, where we consider the land level if you
can
put a ball on the ground and it doesn't roll away :-)
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