High centered my mower

mommucked

mommucked

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Rural Apex n.c.
:eek:ops: Got tired of the knee high stiltgrass taking over the back of the back yrd. and SLOWLY, (carefully I thought) drove my rider into the jungle, after a few adult beverages:beer: :driver: . I had mowed there once or twice but never when it was so thick and high. I was backing down the hill (because the wet weeds where spinnin the tires trying to back up out of there on the first exploratory pass ), and an old stumphole swallowed a back tire. The center of the deck and blades found the earth and a rockpile I may have put there a few years ago and forgot :eek:ops::redface:. Violent, loud, smashing rock and steel as rock shrapnel shot all over before I stopped the blades.This was 2 weeks ago, I finally pulled off the deck and looked at it today and a baseball sized Quarts rock had passed between the deck and the ends of the multching, discharge blades, bending them down alot at the ends, enough to cause one to hit the deck at the discharge hole and cut a 1.5" slice into the edge of the deck. I was suprised the edges of the blades that hit the deck, showed only minor damage, besides the bending. They must be harder than the deck!!
 
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I did almost the same thing the other day. I was spraying weeds w/ my big electric sprayer I put on my zero turn mower floor board. went through the lower side of the garden and started up the ditch line and high centered big time. I was really plowing through with one to many in me was what really happened but any how I was by myself and it took me about 30 min to get out by using a 6' long pry bar. My mower weighs almost 2000lbs so my back still hurts.
 
I have pics somewhere of getting my old riding lawn mower stuck in a mudhole in my back 40. I think i came out of that one muddier than if i went 4 wheelin in a mudhole. Neighbors probably thought i was really out there, hootin and hollerin and just having a good time.
 
And you weren't?^^^
 
Oh, i was having a great time. Neighbors already knew i was nuts so this just helped that along.
 
I love my big zero turn, but getting it stuck can be pretty miserable. I still miss my last mower which was a big Gravely with a hydraulic tilt front mounted deck. The nice thing about that was that any time you got stuck all you had to do was tilt up the deck which would shift all of the decks weight onto the drive wheels, and you could just back out. Never even once did I get that mower stuck...can't really say that for my newer Walker.
 
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