Re: Watch where you\'re mowing!
Most interesting thing or at least the most descructive was an old T-Post that had been flipped upside by the dozer that we had in doing the excavating. Considering the post was probably 50 years old it was still really strong. This was before I had my tractor. I used a pull behind trail mower behind my lawn mower. I ran over it with the trail mower. It was sticking up about 3" - just enough I couldn't see it, the front of the mower went over it, but the blades caught it. Broke/bent 2 blades, broke 1 jackshaft bent another, shattered 1 mandrel, mangled 2 pulleys, broke the idler pulleys and destroyed both belts from the flying material in the deck. About $500 later it was running again - but couldn't keep belts on it. Replaced the rest of the pulleys and the belts again - another $300. Still wasn't right. After replacing the belts 3 or 4 more times at about $60 each I finally gave up and sold the thing for $500 - I figured the motor was worth that much as I had only used it about a year and then a year of fightin' with it. I was hoping to be able to use it behind my NH, but it didn't work out that way. I kinda miss it though, people used to lack at me kinda weird (like they needed another reason /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) when I was mowing pulling this thing that was bigger then the tractor I was pulling it with.
