TS148X Seat Switch Issue

[StarTech]

I would be just happy if Briggs and Kohler would just had replace the defective parts. I can't even get Briggs to replace defective new out of the packaging parts. Luckily I only lost a couple hundred dollars last year but that may be only as I cut way back on part purchases from them too.

Now I have already order $200 in parts from them with half of them being back ordered. Dang I glad it is the off season here. Grass don't really grow when it is 20F overnight.

It was strange yesterday I was laying on my back on the asphalt installing a failed transaxle when it was 35F and it didn't feel cold. Maybe my fat insulation has move around into to right places. Even my fingers didn't hurt. The customer came in and cancelled the repair job after I had already gotten the parts in. He thinks I can just return the parts and get my money back. Yes I can if I want to pay return shipping and take a 20% restocking fee on top of the already paid inbound shipping charge.

Is the problem of towing just because you don't have trailer wide enough or is it some stupid government rule? Like here where you must have brakes on trailer it is a tandem axle even you don't pull heavy loads. I had pull mine for 20 yrs fully loaded without them but of course I use my head on braking.

Yes it would be noticeable when they are trying to use a mower as bush hog rotary mower. Now I have seen a few new mowers where the engine were way under power that they couldn't take off a couple inches of grass. On those I recommend a larger engine or if just purchase return it due lack performance. A 10.5 hp with a 42" deck just don't it literately. It takes at 17.5 hp and that is pushing it depending the type grass being cut. Here my current mower came with a 16.5 (31) hp engine with restrictor plate and it could barely cut a slightly overgrown yard. I did upgrade the engine to a 21hp (33 CI) and now I cut whatever I want to although I need slow down on the extra tall stuff.

 

[bertsmobile1]

I would be just happy if Briggs and Kohler would just had replace the defective parts. I can't even get Briggs to replace defective new out of the packaging parts. Luckily I only lost a couple hundred dollars last year but that may be only as I cut way back on part purchases from them too.

Now I have already order $200 in parts from them with half of them being back ordered. Dang I glad it is the off season here. Grass don't really grow when it is 20F overnight.

It was strange yesterday I was laying on my back on the asphalt installing a failed transaxle when it was 35F and it didn't feel cold. Maybe my fat insulation has move around into to right places. Even my fingers didn't hurt. The customer came in and cancelled the repair job after I had already gotten the parts in. He thinks I can just return the parts and get my money back. Yes I can if I want to pay return shipping and take a 20% restocking fee on top of the already paid inbound shipping charge.

Is the problem of towing just because you don't have trailer wide enough or is it some stupid government rule? Like here where you must have brakes on trailer it is a tandem axle even you don't pull heavy loads. I had pull mine for 20 yrs fully loaded without them but of course I use my head on braking.

Yes it would be noticeable when they are trying to use a mower as bush hog rotary mower. Now I have seen a few new mowers where the engine were way under power that they couldn't take off a couple inches of grass. On those I recommend a larger engine or if just purchase return it due lack performance. A 10.5 hp with a 42" deck just don't it literately. It takes at 17.5 hp and that is pushing it depending the type grass being cut. Here my current mower came with a 16.5 (31) hp engine with restrictor plate and it could barely cut a slightly overgrown yard. I did upgrade the engine to a 21hp (33 CI) and now I cut whatever I want to although I need slow down on the extra tall stuff.

Trailer is a tilt trailer custom built for a 42" Cub Cadet 2000 series back in the 90's
A customer of mine bought when we was made redundant and became a grass cutter ( now a full on lawn & garden maintenance operator )
It was widened to take the Great Dane so 44" is all the width I have to play with.
And yes down here anything bigger than a 6 x 4 box must be braked & all new ones the brakes must be electric .
I am working on a 6 x 10 conversion of an old tray top but it is one of those roundtuit jobs as I want it to be low & tilting so I can drive or winch mowers into it without using ramps
Trailer I got was modified to sit level behind his 4 ton flat top so it sits very much nose down behind my 1 ton van.
The most common size domestic ride on down here is 42" for blocks 0.5 to 10 acres.
And of course commercial customers have their own trailers so they deliver the mower to me .
Domestice customers with big mowers by & large bought them second hand from a commercial contractor & have done nothing in the way of maintenance to them other than changing the oil so it being "too big" for my trailer often works in my favour .
In a pinch I can get a 60" ztr on the motorcycle trailer, but it is a big job to do it .
So 46" & 48" get the decks pulled and towed that way but after that most tracks are too wide to go in .
I am set up for air & have a petrol compressor for on site work if I really want to but for most of those big commercials I leave it to the dealers unless it is a good friend or commercial customer .

 

[StarTech]

That why I brought a 6.5 x 16 tandem trailer. I didn't want to be limited to only small equipment. I also need to move vehicle at times or need to haul a couple pallets of concrete blocks.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Trouble with big car moving trailers is they are hard to manouver in the hilly yards around here, you have to use loading ramps and I am pulling it with 2.4L LPG powered 4 cylinder Mitsubishi long wheel base van not a USA style 10L V8 Pick Up .
Even with my fairly light set up there are times I have ripped up a customers lawn trying to retrieve their mower which always seem to die with locked transmissions in the far back down hill corner and of course that is not good for business.
The "new" trailer is all aluminium apart from the single draw bar & axels .
Axels are rubber bushed cantilevered type so no springs and the trailer will be around 10" off the ground at the back so the body will touch the ground even when empty .
I am putting some arms on it (actually done that bit ) so the drop sides can be locked strait down allowing the decks to overhang and the combing will be replaced with locking channel that takes drop in tie down rings as used in aircraft cargo space .
However I really don't want to work on anything with a deck much over 48" as I am here by myself and big decks get very heavy very quickly so not having a big enough trailer ican be convienant at times .

 

[StarTech]

It one of the reason I have an engine crane and think about a gantry type crane. Even some the 48" Cub Cadet fabricated decks are well over 100 lbs.

As for lock up transaxles I usually pull the wheel keys so they can roll. It is those 60+ inch ZTR that I must use an electric winch to load them. If the equipment is in a muddy area either the customer waits until it is dry enough for me to get to machine or they out someone else that willing to get stuck.