Hi. Helping out family using the mower deck on our B1750 to mow about 6 acres. Also doing some work removing small rocks from a newly filled area, hand raking and collecting in the bucket to dump on our growing rock pile.
The mower suddenly seems bound up. I had been using it (almost) no problem until after dumping some rocks I could no longer move forward or back without stalling. I'm still getting used to the levers and shifters, but I used the lever to raise the mower deck and everything seemed fine for the moment. Not sure why it was low at that moment. But I was able to run the machine for a few hours and put it away. Yesterday I wanted to mow and I could not because every time I engaged the mower the tractor wanted to stall out. Same situation as before except raising the belly mower didn't fix the problem.
I know I need to inspect the mower unit itself to see if anything is causing it to be bound up. My question that could save me time is this. I don't fully understand all the levers including whether there is a Mid PTO brake. I've been using the parking brake on a slope. Are those connected somehow. I've engaged and disengaged the mid PTO for the mower 4 or 5 times hoping it would start working. I see there is a differential lock lever, a 2wd to 4wd shift lever. Does the mid pto require these other setting be set a certain way? Like only 2WD or only 4WD? Differential lock vs unlocked.
Printing off sheets from the manual and heading over to inspect mower deck as best I can and to check settings on levers.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Andrew
BTW my B1750 uses a shift lever for forward reverse etc. I saw another owner here with foot pedals for forward and reverse. So different setups for the B1750 I guess.
The mower suddenly seems bound up. I had been using it (almost) no problem until after dumping some rocks I could no longer move forward or back without stalling. I'm still getting used to the levers and shifters, but I used the lever to raise the mower deck and everything seemed fine for the moment. Not sure why it was low at that moment. But I was able to run the machine for a few hours and put it away. Yesterday I wanted to mow and I could not because every time I engaged the mower the tractor wanted to stall out. Same situation as before except raising the belly mower didn't fix the problem.
I know I need to inspect the mower unit itself to see if anything is causing it to be bound up. My question that could save me time is this. I don't fully understand all the levers including whether there is a Mid PTO brake. I've been using the parking brake on a slope. Are those connected somehow. I've engaged and disengaged the mid PTO for the mower 4 or 5 times hoping it would start working. I see there is a differential lock lever, a 2wd to 4wd shift lever. Does the mid pto require these other setting be set a certain way? Like only 2WD or only 4WD? Differential lock vs unlocked.
Printing off sheets from the manual and heading over to inspect mower deck as best I can and to check settings on levers.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Andrew
BTW my B1750 uses a shift lever for forward reverse etc. I saw another owner here with foot pedals for forward and reverse. So different setups for the B1750 I guess.