[AT] parts for m665 jd

[charlie hill]

It's just me but I wouldn't feel right about fixing a borrowed machine with 
used parts.

Speaking of Zero Turn accidents.  Years back a former neighbor of mine 
bought a big
Kubota zeroturn.  High dollar one with a diesel engine.  His wife had to 
show it off and
came over and started mowing our yard for us.   There was a big torpedo type 
float like
you use on the end of a fishing net or a crab pot laying in the yard.  It 
had a piece of
black rope about 10' long attached to it that she didn't see.  The mower 
caught the end of
that rope and slung that plastic coated, foam filled float into the two 6' x 
8' storefront
glass panels that make (made) up part of my living room wall.   Lynn was 
sitting in a chair
beside the window when it blew shattered glass all over the living room.

I was able to scrounge two nearly new 6 foot sliding doors from an ocean 
front house that
was about to be torn down to build a bigger, newer one.  I put them in and 
built a set of
transom windows about 10" high to fill in the space above them.  She 
reluctantly agreed
to HELP pay for them.  I told her not to bother.  I'd have never heard the 
end of it.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 2:11 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] parts for m665 jd

Just pay the $150, and consider it a life lesson unless your wife is
used to driving a zero turn mowers.  Mike M


On 7/4/2013 1:39 PM, John Slavin wrote:
> I know this is kinda off topic but I'm hoping someone might have a 
> referral for me.  I borrowed my neighbors lawn mower, a JD M665, because 
> mine is on the fritz.  It's one of those zero turning machines and my wife 
> promptly got too close to my pickup and gashed a hole in the fuel tank 
> (one sits on either side of the seat, kinda exposed) with the bumper.  I 
> think it's be likely that one of those is sitting around somewhere with a 
> worn out deck or engine, with a good plastic fuel tank.  Deere wants $150 
> for a new tank.  Anybody have any ideas?  I've called a few lawn mower 
> bone yards, but no luck yet.
>
> John Slavin
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