147 48in mower deck

[Neil Mullins]

These new plasma get ups are sure nice aren't they!!!

I purchased a plasma cutter to incorporate on my CNC torch table but have never followed through. I don’t have a good way to catch or remove all the smoke/dust from my work environment. To add it to my oxy/fuel table I’d have to enclose the legs of the table & add a big fan to down draft the smoke

 

[RAllison]

Sounds like it's time for a new building...or at least an addition!

 

[gpapa]

Great idea using the pipe to strengthen the front of the deck. Those areas really take a beating.

 

[RAllison]

Mine is a 42” these decks aren’t to bad to fab up from scratch. The chutes I measured up, made simple hand drawings & had my steel salesman take a look. Same thing for flat part where spindles fit. Had those parts plasma burned on CNC & bends done on press brake. It was a few years back but didn’t cost all that much. Then I drilled holes & welded it up here myself

As soon as you posted this I realized I have a42 in deck in back of a shed out back. I priced some steel and its crazy right now but I have some other resources to look into this weekend. All the 42 deck needs is stripped down and painted! I'm gonna go with that for now

 

[Neil Mullins]

For my use the 42 is about right. I have a few places that a 48 or larger would be a bit tight to use.

 

[RAllison]

Yeah I have enough mow power to get 2 acres mowed. But now this idea that I could make my own deck has taken off,my winter project just got moved up to summer!

 

[Neil Mullins]

Yes my sheet steel, well any black finish stuff. Angle, channel, pipe is about 100% above year end 2020 prices

 

[Neil Mullins]

Deck wheel blow out

 

[RAllison]

She's a blowout alright!

 

[Neil Mullins]

These 7” ball bearing wheels are hard to find. I replaced the pair last spring when I went through the entire deck. I am sure they were not OE Cub Cadet.

 

[Neil Mullins]

Here is my solution for today at least. I had a pair of solid rubber hand truck wheels BB center but 5/8” axle. I made a bushing & adapted these.

 

[RAllison]

That should hold for abit huh?

 

[Neil Mullins]

They were 7-3/4” OD X 2 Harbor Freight specials!! Hand Truck wheels 300# load moved up a hole in the bracket which still gives me the “cut Height” I want. May have to Jack up the tractor to pull deck off if needed.

 

[Neil Mullins]

I wanted to go to more modern hard rounded wheels. 5” OD as large as I could find. Thought to self…. Buy a couple Durlin high wear plastic disks, & machine my own…. At $75 each. Plan B. LOL

 

[RAllison]

 

[Neil Mullins]

On another note, I took a good look at the 12 HP Kohler I bought to upgrade the power a bit. Apparently what ever it came from the muffler had been bolted on with the flange bolts. My old 106 has 1” pipe threaded in the exhaust port. The Ex port on the 12 has bolts broken off in the flange holes & looked like the internal threads were gone!! Bummer. I dug out a 1” NPT tap & chased what was still there. I was amazed at what was still remaining. Perfect, No but is very usable

 

[Neil Mullins]

So now it’s move forward with tear down. I have all I need for complete rebuild other than turning the crankshaft, if that’s needed

 

[digger]

These 7” ball bearing wheels are hard to find. I replaced the pair last spring when I went through the entire deck. I am sure they were not OE Cub Cadet.

They are not hard to find.
https://www.ccspecialties.org/implementparts_2.html

 

[Neil Mullins]

The wheel that just came apart. The 5-6 tiny little spot welds that hold the steel hub half’s together let go.
That wheel was a Martin I haven’t tried the Arnold brand wheel.

 

[digger]

The wheel that just came apart. The 5-6 tiny little spot welds that hold the steel hub half’s together let go.
That wheel was a Martin I haven’t tried the Arnold brand wheel.

I've had Martin wheels on my machines for 17+ years and never had an issue. BTW, Martin supplies wheels in a cheaper version for MTD/Arnold.