Changing Blades On Woods L59
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Topic: Changing Blades On Woods L59
Posted By: Dick L
Subject: Changing Blades On Woods L59
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2011 at 8:32am
I find that I have plenty of room to change the blades doing it as in the picture.
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Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2011 at 4:45pm
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Hope you have the ignition disconected/brakes locked..never be too safe.
------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2011 at 4:47pm
| And blocked up. A few months ago an off duty firefighter in my town died when the car he was working on slipped off the jacks. |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2011 at 7:47pm
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When I jack things up under a tractor I always leave it in nutural on a down hill grade with the engine running without locking the brakes. I suppose your against dodge ball also. I aint livin life in a bubble.
There has been talk about not having room to change blades. The picture is to show there is plenty of room if you jack the front up to the torque tube. You can lay beside the mower and reach under with an impact to remove the bolts without getting under the mower with your body.
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Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2011 at 8:13pm
| My comment wasn't meant to be insulting. My apologies. |
Posted By: Ohio Orange
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2011 at 11:56pm
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When I jack things up under a tractor I always leave it in nutural on a down hill grade with the engine running without locking the brakes. I suppose your against dodge ball also. I aint livin life in a bubble.
ROTHLMAO ! Dick, if ya wanna get really brave I still have a set of yard jarts with steel points you can borrow if your daring enough ? LOL
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Posted By: Jeff Z. NY
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 4:37am
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Been doing it that way for years.
I should of had that method patented then I could charge you. It works really well. |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 8:54am
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You should have Jeff. I will try (most) anything once Ohio Orange.
Stan R and AC WD45 I was not insulted by your comments. Being insulted or having feelings hurt happens to be a personal choice that an individual has to make. I chose a long time ago to never be insulted or have hurt feelings. I take all trys that people make to insult or hurt my feelings as funny. The comment I made after your comments happens to be a natural quip that is meant to be funny. It comes from years of practice.
My first ten years of working away from the farm was with rough talking people that never had anything to say nice to say. You either get a tuff skin or change jobs. Not that I approve of the nasty words used by them or me at the time, but it would do a world of good for everyone to spend a few years working with guys like that to get over a bunch of hang ups.
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Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 8:44am
| Dick, my concept for my L306 is similar but I use a handyman jack and move it from one side to the other. My tractor/mower is stored at the farm in an old crib; no electricity, air compressor, concrete to use floor jack, etc. Vise-grips hold the arbor as I use a 1/2" breaker bar with 6-point impact socket to loosen the bolts. |
Posted By: Bob(W-Md)
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 9:48am
| With mine I raise the deck up as high as possible.With 2 short pieces of good chain with hooks,cut to length.Use the holes at the bell housing.One over the lifting mount on the starter side and a bolt inserted on the other side to loop chain over,and use the hooks to slide in along front edge of mower deck in the caster wheels area to keep deck as high as possible.You can use the jack under for extra protection.Might have to move away from your work area at times.I use an impact wrench to loosen and re-apply,make sure to loosen the opposite way.Apply an anti-seeze before re-installing. |
Posted By: Jeff Z. NY
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 9:49am
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Juat a few days after reading this I got a call from the farm.
Pop said he bought 2 new sets of blades for the Woods mowers and could I come down to change them. Funny how things happen. |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 11:14am
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I ordered a set of new blade for my L59 last week. I received an email that they would be shipped on the seventh. I took the picture weekend before last when I sharpened the blades. They have been sharpened so many times that in tall grass it leaves two strips of higher grass. Does alright if the grass only has a weeks of growth. I took it out in a hay field yesterday that I was going to plow that never got dry where the hay is as high as the hood. I took the video camera with me to show what my guttless wonder B would do in tall grass. In the bright sun I could not see the screen but I had it set on snapshots and only got a picture when I thought I was recording. I thought it would be a good answer to those new guys that ask if a B will handle a 5 foot mower or bush hog. Also to those that say not in tall grass.
Plowing that field with different guttless wonder B will also be a video of some sort.
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Posted By: john2189
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 10:41pm
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Dick,
In your pic i see a woods 59. Whats it going on ? a Cub ?
John ------------- '41 Allis B '45 Allis B '49 Farmall Cub '72 IH Cub |