[AT] parts for m665 jd

[Dave Rotigel]

No Charlie, it's NOT just you. You are 100% CORRECT!
	Dave

On Jul 4, 2013, at 2:29 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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