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It must be nice to mow your lawn in February , I have snow chains and a snow plow on my John Deere. And if the snow keeps it up like it has all day, I'll be using it in the morning for sure. LOL
Just pulling "your chain" Synopsis.
There is even grass on one side of my house (St. Augustine grass) that has never gone dormant, it is still green and lush. I've never seen that before. Weird. I think I'd rather be mowing that snow plowing.. It was 73 degrees today, no wind, and not a cloud in the sky. I got a sunburn!
I wish!! It is a self-propelled John Deere 6.75 horsepower and the model number is JS20. I am too tired to get serial numbers, but this picture should help.
This is a JS25. Apparently they no longer sell the JS20. It doesn't look exactly like this, but close.
It's heavily made, with steel on most everything except the cowling and the wheels, which are some kind of polyurethane.
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Synopsis. with a steal deck it's considered a Commercial mower.
On that model, when you engage the drive the cable pulls an idler lever with a pulley on it which tightens a belt that turns the transaxle.
When you get a chance try this, start it up, lift the drive wheels off the ground and see if they turn at all then.
I think that the belt came off of the pulley. It's a simle job but the belt is hard to get to because they're enclosed on most commercial models. On some you can get to the belt from underneath and some have a removable plate on the back by the discharge (where the bag hooks up.). If you dicide to do this,when you lay the mower on it's side, lay it on the opposte side of the air filter.
Synopsis. with a steal deck it's considered a Commercial mower.
On that model, when you engage the drive the cable pulls an idler lever with a pulley on it which tightens a belt that turns the transaxle.
When you get a chance try this, start it up, lift the drive wheels off the ground and see if they turn at all then.
I think that the belt came off of the pulley. It's a simle job but the belt is hard to get to because they're enclosed on most commercial models. On some you can get to the belt from underneath and some have a removable plate on the back by the discharge (where the bag hooks up.). If you dicide to do this,when you lay the mower on it's side, lay it on the opposte side of the air filter.
Thank you MK, that is some great advice on troubleshooting, and something I wouldn't thought of on my own. I guess that's why you do what you do!
It was really funny, all of the sudden, the mower just became VERY heavy to manipulate and I thought it was because the bagger was full. This thing sucks up grass into the bagger at a phenomenal rate. The good side to this is that is really, really cuts down on weeds in my law because it takes in all of the seeds.
I think you are right about the pully; you're also right about it being a commercial mower. This mower is made for mowing big lawns and although my lawn isn't that big I couldn't pass up the deal that I got on this baby (1/2 off).
Thanks again for the sage advice MK, it is much appreciated.
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My pleasure helping.
To be honest, I don't think that John Deere ever made a domestic(noncommercial) mower.
One more thing.
There's a return spring on the idler lever that pulls the idler pulley away from the belt when you disengage the drive. If the wheels turn when you lift them off of the ground it may be that the ruturn spring is disconnected, another simple job.
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, I have snow chains and a snow plow on my John Deere. And if the snow keeps it up like it has all day, I'll be using it in the morning for sure. LOL
It was 73 degrees today, no wind, and not a cloud in the sky. I got a sunburn!
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