Deck Doubles Cutting Width

Deck Doubles Cutting Width MOWERS Mowers (31H) 27-3-27 Mowing his 2 1/2-acre lawn takes half as long since Richard Moore, Colby, Kansas, added a second mower deck behind his 1970 John Deere 112 lawn tractor. He was happy with the variable speed transmission on his 112 tractor and the way the 41-in. deck left his lawn looking manicured, but he felt he needed something bigger. He found a junked 1968 112 at a local lawn mower shop. "The deck was in good shape, so I bought the tractor for $75," he says. Rather than trying to fix the junker and run two tractors, Moore made a trailer to hold the second mower deck to pull behind his tractor. He stripped the front wheels and spindles off the junked 112 and used those on the back of his trailer, which he made from square steel tubing. He mounted a couple of new caster wheels on front of his trailer. Then he devised a way to mount the deck from the junked tractor on the trailer, using the lever and mechanical lift mechanism from the old tractor. He used a 10 hp Tecumseh engine to power the trailing deck. He says the most difficult part was adapting the deck lift linkage from the old tractor to the trailing unit. "I scratched my head a lot over that, but a friend was able to help me figure it out," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Richard Moore, 1886 County Road 15, Colby, Kan. 67701 (ph 785 462-3280; fax 785 462-8322).

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