sea2summit
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As a condition of upgrading to the 25D my wife said she wanted a bagger, if that痴 all it takes I知 in. The dealer cut me a good deal if I壇 assemble it myself so too easy,,,so I thought.
Comes in three packages one with the bagger it痴 self (large box), an adapter to my mower deck (medium box), and hardware to adapt the collar of your tractor to the mower mount (small box) which for the 25D was several sleeves for the collar mount for the 18痴, 24痴 and 2660/70 there is an additional set of collars you have to either mount or replace your current collars with.
This scared the crap out of me, no parts layout only itemized listings and some of the numbers where the same (i.e. (4) M10 bolts (4) M8 bolts but they the same size just different washers near as I can tell).
First thing you do is attached the two pieces of the subframe together, the book says hook one end up to the tractor first. So there I am with one end half attached to the tractor holding another 70ish pound piece trying to get a screw to purchase from the bottom so singing the 斗efty loosy righty tighty song in my head backwards and can稚 get this screw to start. After yelling at all the children (which I had to apologize for), crushing my right hand at least twice and making no progress I turned it over to see what the heck was going on and found the nut that痴 welded on the subframe wasn稚 square on the hole. I didn稚 have anything to enlarge the hole without destroying my nut so I had to run to the hardware store
All in all it wasn稚 too bad, from starting to complete minus the trip to the hardware store was less than three hours.
Our grass was pretty wet but she wanted to try it out, it worked well. I greased all the zerts I could find and confirmed with the manual that was it but after 45 minutes of mowing the housing of the belt cover and impeller housing was warm to the touch and some pretty warm air was coming out the top access area, I reached in there and felt around nothing I could reach was 塗ot anyone know if that is about normal?
The left over parts are nearly as scary as the starting parts, I can稚 believe something coming from overseas would leave this many toys for you. The only parts I should have used on mine where to move the hazard lights up so they are visible over the bagger, I chose not to do that because I知 planning to put a saw mount where they wanted the hazard lights to go and my tractor will never see a road. The other leftovers are for the other BX models modifications. If anyone needs rear support stays let me know so I can get them out of the garage.
Why they wouldn稚 design this to fit perfectly on a pallet is beyond me I got it all sideways and pinned one of the legs incorrectly to and got it on there. I値l have to fiddle around with it some but it was getting late so it just got throw in the garage to keep it out of the rain for now.
Overall I壇 say it痴 okay, I think it will grow on me but it sure takes some of the man card from the tractor, had to put the BH back on before the neighbors started talking about my lawnmower
Came off in about the same time it takes to put the BH on so not too bad, I think it will be a little harder to get back on because of PTO alignment time but I don稚 think it will be too painful.
*If anyone can tell me how to attach the photos in normal size real qucik I'll edit it so you don't have to open more tabs:thumbsup:
Comes in three packages one with the bagger it痴 self (large box), an adapter to my mower deck (medium box), and hardware to adapt the collar of your tractor to the mower mount (small box) which for the 25D was several sleeves for the collar mount for the 18痴, 24痴 and 2660/70 there is an additional set of collars you have to either mount or replace your current collars with.
This scared the crap out of me, no parts layout only itemized listings and some of the numbers where the same (i.e. (4) M10 bolts (4) M8 bolts but they the same size just different washers near as I can tell).
First thing you do is attached the two pieces of the subframe together, the book says hook one end up to the tractor first. So there I am with one end half attached to the tractor holding another 70ish pound piece trying to get a screw to purchase from the bottom so singing the 斗efty loosy righty tighty song in my head backwards and can稚 get this screw to start. After yelling at all the children (which I had to apologize for), crushing my right hand at least twice and making no progress I turned it over to see what the heck was going on and found the nut that痴 welded on the subframe wasn稚 square on the hole. I didn稚 have anything to enlarge the hole without destroying my nut so I had to run to the hardware store
All in all it wasn稚 too bad, from starting to complete minus the trip to the hardware store was less than three hours.
Our grass was pretty wet but she wanted to try it out, it worked well. I greased all the zerts I could find and confirmed with the manual that was it but after 45 minutes of mowing the housing of the belt cover and impeller housing was warm to the touch and some pretty warm air was coming out the top access area, I reached in there and felt around nothing I could reach was 塗ot anyone know if that is about normal?
The left over parts are nearly as scary as the starting parts, I can稚 believe something coming from overseas would leave this many toys for you. The only parts I should have used on mine where to move the hazard lights up so they are visible over the bagger, I chose not to do that because I知 planning to put a saw mount where they wanted the hazard lights to go and my tractor will never see a road. The other leftovers are for the other BX models modifications. If anyone needs rear support stays let me know so I can get them out of the garage.
Why they wouldn稚 design this to fit perfectly on a pallet is beyond me I got it all sideways and pinned one of the legs incorrectly to and got it on there. I値l have to fiddle around with it some but it was getting late so it just got throw in the garage to keep it out of the rain for now.
Overall I壇 say it痴 okay, I think it will grow on me but it sure takes some of the man card from the tractor, had to put the BH back on before the neighbors started talking about my lawnmower
Came off in about the same time it takes to put the BH on so not too bad, I think it will be a little harder to get back on because of PTO alignment time but I don稚 think it will be too painful. *If anyone can tell me how to attach the photos in normal size real qucik I'll edit it so you don't have to open more tabs:thumbsup:
