MountainBuck
Silver Member
I've had my new 4500P for a week now. However, I'm really having problems with picking up and dropping attachments.
My first time attaching the landscape rake took two hours. After the first hour, I called the dealer and he told me to just push it up against a wall or tree. I was reluctant to do that so went and got some rubber chocks and after the second hour, got the rake attached. Taking the implement off was also difficult. Attaching the rough cut mower then took about 1/2 hour with the chock method.
Its typically the last inch or so that is the worst. As a younger man I would have just wrestled the implements on, but my back won't let me do anything like that anymore.
I've thought about greasing the front posts. If I didn't think it would void the warranty, I'd file the sharp edges off those posts, but for what I paid for it, can't afford to void the warranty in the first month.
This was all on flat level concrete. I tried positioning the rake on ramps but that made it worse. I'm now thinking of driving some anchors in the barn and chaining the implements to them as I drop them and attach them. I'm also toying with a chain solution that hooks to the front frame of the tractor and pulls the implement onto it.
Any ideas?
My first time attaching the landscape rake took two hours. After the first hour, I called the dealer and he told me to just push it up against a wall or tree. I was reluctant to do that so went and got some rubber chocks and after the second hour, got the rake attached. Taking the implement off was also difficult. Attaching the rough cut mower then took about 1/2 hour with the chock method.
Its typically the last inch or so that is the worst. As a younger man I would have just wrestled the implements on, but my back won't let me do anything like that anymore.
I've thought about greasing the front posts. If I didn't think it would void the warranty, I'd file the sharp edges off those posts, but for what I paid for it, can't afford to void the warranty in the first month.
This was all on flat level concrete. I tried positioning the rake on ramps but that made it worse. I'm now thinking of driving some anchors in the barn and chaining the implements to them as I drop them and attach them. I'm also toying with a chain solution that hooks to the front frame of the tractor and pulls the implement onto it.
Any ideas?