Re: (ET) replacement rollers for rear of mower deck

[Pieter Litchfield <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

Mike:
If you have some pictures of your full floating deck modification, I for
one would like to see how its done.  By the way, someone pointed out
a while ago that many of us tend to turn mowers around on the
asphalt  driveway, a habit that will wear rollers very quickly
indeed.  When turning my mower on any surface but grass, I raise the
rear edge just enough to get the roller off the ground and leave the
front casters in contact.  This has to be kinder to the
rollers!




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> Most of the anti-scalping wheels are made of a hard plastic that will
> wear very quickly on an ET deck as they are in constant contact with the
> ground.  Most I've ever seen don't even use any kind of a bearing,
> just a bolt through a hole in the wheel.  One exception is a
> polypropylene wheel sold by a company called Innotech Designs Inc. with a
> website address of
> www.lawnwheels.com.  They
> cost about $20 each, but have sealed ball bearings and should far out
> last the $7 plastic ones.
>    
> I put two of these wheels on my E10 deck several years back and they seem
> to be holding up well.  The original wheels didn't last very long on
> the small frame decks, as they too slid sideways when turning.  The
> rear wheels on a small frame deck were designed to control cutting
> height, and the four parallel arms were meant to keep the deck parallel
> to the tractor, not necessarily parallel to the ground.  If you let
> the deck hang from it's lift cables, then it works just about like any
> other mid-mount deck, and the rear wheels and the front skids just try to
> keep it f

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