[AT] OT(?) Cub Cadet 1812 Hydro question

[Larry Goss]

Steve, IMHO you should make a judgment made on the terrain of your lawn rather then the cutting speed of the equipment.  There is no doubt that you can cut faster with a ZTR than with a tractor-style mower, but if your lawn isn't really level, you will loose traction on the uphill wheel all the time and not be able to hold the cutting line on a slope.

When I worked for a shop right after retirement at the university, we replaced the tires on a number of ZTR's so the owners had directional control on their lawns -- and all they were, were suburban lots with the building site raised a few feet above the street level.

We replaced the turf tires with high-flotation, low-lug ag tires.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:49
Subject: Re: [AT] OT(?) Cub Cadet 1812 Hydro question
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Hi John:
> 
> What model is your Cub Cadet Zero-Turn?  Reason I ask is 
> because I'm
> thinking about one right now, specifically, a CC Enforcer 
> 44.   One of
> my reasons for starting this thread originally was because I was
> needing to fix up my old CC garden tractor to decide if it cuts fast
> enough to keep, or if I need to let it go and spend some bucks 
> on the
> ZTR.  Now I'm a bit wary of the hydro...
> 
> Steve O.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:55 PM, John Wilkens 
> <jwilkens at eoni.com> wrote:
> > I got in on this string late but thought i'd throw in a little 
> tidbit> on hydrostatic drives.  My cub cadet has dual hydro 
> motors on each
> > rear wheel for the zero-radius turning (really like it!), but 
> I have
> > experienced one problem.  I got to working it pretty hard last week
> > and experienced an increasingly loud growl (not the blades). 
>  It got
> > worse and finally just wouldn't go.  The motors are sealed.  The
> > problem was the hydraulic oil in the sealed units got so hat it
> > started cavitating--fomed up).  I let it sit for a day to cool off
> > and it was fine.  The mechanics had never experienced it 
> before.  I
> > like the concept of zero-turn but if I had it to do over I'd 
> by a
> > Toro zero mower.   JOhn W.
> >
> 
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