Found Complete Mower
Hey gang,
I found a complete mower last fall on the Internet. It was in an estate sale down in Missouri about an hour west of St. Louis. On one of my weekly commutes from Texas to Minnesota I detoured there to look at it and found the gears to be in good shape. I offered the seller $500 for the complete mower and he took it. The following weekend I drove down there with my SUV and snowmobile trailer to pick it up. Upon returning to the farm I removed the entire gearbox and brought it and the gearbox from my original mower into my local John Deere dealer. $938 later I had new bearings and seals installed along with some shiny new paint on the outside. Once I got everything back together the mower worked beautifully. It is quiet, cuts great, and in typical John Deere fashion is built like a tank. Now if I could just get the mower repainted.................