42 DECK

[scWHhauler 96]

Hay uall any fresh thoughts on how to stop this from happing i got this deck and it was coated with what looked like truck lining. i am not beyond stripping it and starting over but what to coat it with? 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,600]

Clean / scrape after use. Spray /wipe with oil…used or spray on…Don’t store them caked /wet…

 

@peter lena has a good approach to deck maintenance…

[Handy Don 12,235]

24 minutes ago, scWHhauler said:

Hay uall any fresh thoughts on how to stop this from happing i got this deck and it was coated with what looked like truck lining. i am not beyond stripping it and starting over but what to coat it with? 

Not just the coating. Using a mulching-style deck while mowing grass with a lot of moisture content turns grass into mush which will stick on nearly anything and then cake up.

[JCM 9,177]

This 48'' SD deck is one that came on my 91   520-H in 2002 when I bought the tractor. I never mow wet grass and when I remove it in the Fall have to clean next to nothing underside. Then wash and wax the topside before dry storage inside for Winter. It is pictured before the wash job. The 36'' RD deck is a 1996 and gets the same treatment. Both are non recycler decks.

[peter lena 8,634]

@scWHhauler this what i do , been doing it for years , notice anything else ? your baffling is an obvious issue to me , none of my decks have them , used a cutting wheel , to neatly finish off the under side of my R/D decks , terrifying to many , but my decks cut clean and zero build up , sharpen blades with a small fine file ,  this is not intended to rile people up , but it has and it is working for me . if nothing else , in your case drop the deck and scrape out that stiff grass , oil soak it down and hot sun dry it out . reverse , what you have been doing , break that cutting cycle , pete 

 

[pfrederi 17,741]

21 minutes ago, JCM said:

This 48'' SD deck is one that came on my 91   520-H in 2002 when I bought the tractor. I never mow wet grass and when I remove it in the Fall have to clean next to nothing underside. Then wash and wax the topside before dry storage inside for Winter. It is pictured before the wash job. The 36'' RD deck is a 1996 and gets the same treatment. Both are non recycler decks.

 

 

 

 

 

This year if I only mowed dry grass I would be using a discbine , raking and baling....

Edited November 16, 2021 by pfrederi

[1940willys 120]

Ya I got a C101 over at my Daughters place same mower deck. Previous owner neglected to clean off regularly. Baffles are missing and presumed rotted off? The triangular wedge type things are still there and collect grass and gunk inside. I try and pull that deck off after every cutting scrap and blow it out! When that Tractor and deck became 'New To Me' I wire wheeled it clean to bare metal, Painted it with 2 Coats of  Rustoleum Rusty Metal Primer and 2 coats of their Regal Red. I tried to patch it up the best I could,some of the mounting points were sketchy too  Oh and for what it's worth them designers over at Wheel Horse Goofed when they boxed up the Triangular Wedge Baffle area. ya can't get in there to coat it for protection. So I took a 1" hole saw  3x's and made a triangular access hole so I could clean and coat it. This was done on my smaller 36" rear discharge on the B80.

[scWHhauler 96]

hay thanks for the posts hear it is all cleaned  peter i think i will remove all the baffling an go from their again thanks  

[Handy Don 12,235]

3 hours ago, scWHhauler said:

hay thanks for the posts hear it is all cleaned  peter i think i will remove all the baffling an go from their again thanks  

With it cleaned, I just noticed the rear owner-added baffle. I suspect it's folded downward because the deck is up on the gage wheels but with the high moisture content of your grass, that extra slowdown may be a factor in not having the underside sweep itself clean. I put one on our 42" deck, but I made sure it extended backward and not down so the grass shoots out backward but doesn't go upward into the machinery.

[scWHhauler 96]

Its not a baffle a piece of  of inter tube that reduces the grass wet or dry from spreading all over the rear tractor, trans, trailer hitch keeps it clean .

[Handy Don 12,235]

5 hours ago, scWHhauler said:

Its not a baffle a piece of  of inter tube that reduces the grass wet or dry from spreading all over the rear tractor, trans, trailer hitch keeps it clean .

Exactly, but also it slows down the exit of the cut grass. No free lunch.

[peter lena 8,634]

@scWHhauler this what i do , been doing it for years , notice anything else ? your baffling is an obvious issue to me , none of my decks have them , used a cutting wheel , to neatly finish off the under side of my R/D decks , terrifying to many , but my decks cut clean and zero build up , sharpen blades with a small fine file ,  this is not intended to rile people up , but it has and it is working for me . if nothing else , in your case drop the deck and scrape out that stiff grass , oil soak it down and hot sun dry it out . reverse , what you have been doing , break that cutting cycle , pete 

 

[peter lena 8,634]

@scWHhauler my  experience with removal of under deck baffling / ducting , was easy and simple . terrifying to  many , it made a much better row free discharge , combined with a regular oil spray down and drying , when i drop my 3 decks for a look see , there is no build up , no trapped grass , and no places to hide rot , dropped a deck yesterday , for winter , no grass hiding spots . lightly touched up blades ,small file , spray it down with lubriplate chain and cable spray , sit at 45 degree angle to sun , deck gets hot , sucks in oil , sitting up side down now with that oil soak, over winter. use lucas xtra heavy chassis grease in spindles and slide areas , also detail soak those spindle bases to deck mount points , stopping rot . always cut at highest setting , this set up has given me trouble free and quiet decks , also did the grease detailing on my same bearings in the pto mule drive , very quiet and spins up with ease . any questions ? just ask , pete