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[bradloomis at charter.net]

This little guy has 3143+ hours. The meter works even tho the glass on the
cluster falls out, and is broken so the cluster is a mess. There was nothing
unbalanced at all about the old blades which leads me to believe it was just
weeds and gopher mounds for 21 years that got them to that point. Like I
said earlier it definitely mowed with vertical windrows of uncut stuff.
Someone on the Facebook page asked if it was used as a box scraper. Well
with an abundance of gopher and ground squirrel mounds might as well be.
Needless to say I will not be abusing this machine. It runs like a champ and
now it mows like one as well. A brush hog would probably be a better unit
but no rear PTO on this. And a new machine is out of the question.     

When I first got the deck off and looked at the blade bolts I was actually
worried that I may not get them removed as the heads were almost carriage
bolt like. Thankfully the Milwaukee impact did the trick easily. 

I'd take this one in a heartbeat at least based on how it operates. Yes, it
is abused and in need of a $1000 worth of plastic, but I'd give it a good
home. 

 

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Wow! Talk about something that's been rode hard! I too have never seen a
blade like that.

 

And that poor machine. Saddens me when I see something that's been that
neglected. Hard to believe it has given that many years of service given
it's appearance. I'd love to have one of those myself, but I'd run away from
that if it were on the auction block. Hahahaha

 

Brad

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To Dean VP,

 

I am the 'operator' of a Deere 455 at work. Which also means I'm the
mechanic. Because of your uploading of the manual on such machines on the
associated JD page on Faceplant I now have access to info I would have had
to wing it through. Heck, it's almost an antique, a 1999. I love that poor
abused machine. I want to take it home badly. It fires right up ever single
time, even tho the starter is a wire to the battery that has to be touched
to the post to get it to crank. But varoom and it's off and running. That
and replacing the 21 year old mower blades, now it actually mows. They
literally tossed a rear blade and a drag before I could salvage them. More
money then sense and a need to 'clean' things up. 

Again, thanks for that upload. A wealth of information. 

 

Brad

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