[AT] parts for m665 jd

[Ron Cook]

That is a funny story, Charlie.  One of those that you "could not do" if 
you tried.
I agree on the tank.  I would just have to put on the new one and chalk 
it up to experience.  I do understand that 150 bucks can be hard to come 
by sometimes.
Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/4/2013 1:29 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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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