New to group. Looking for advice on a homemade spring assist
 

Hello All.

Got my 1st garden tractor that I enjoy working on. I traded a recurve crossbow for a Cub Cadet 1250 last fall. Since then, I've been tinkering around with it, and getting it running fairly smooth. Searching for attachments and asking around about these cubs, I bought a snow plow , decent #1 tiller, hitch and Brinly plow. I am excited to plow some new ground soon!

Seems like there would be an easy way to make a spring assist. But I feel like I would spend more time trying to figure it out.

Does anyone have any info on that?

Looks like they are around $150 new.

Thanks

:Welcome2:

As far as the spring,, THIS really is a Goldilocks situation,,

If the spring is too strong, it will not work
if it is too weak, it will not work,

the spring has to be JUST RIGHT,, :bigthink:

and, that is because the range of motion of the spring attachment is so small,,

Welcome to OCC..... :Welcome2:

I would agree with CAD on the Spring Assist.

Made one up a couple years ago for a 129 I was selling, used a Cub Cadet 2135 Lawn Tractor OEM Lift Spring 732-3093 which I got on ebay for 15 bucks or so it was close but not identical I think a little smaller ID than a normal wide frame lift and maybe a coil or two less but I also had a factory wide frame assist to copy the rest of the parts from and a local fab shop that made me a couple brackets for cheap ! It worked as well as the factory ones, the only reason I did it was that I didn't want to send my factory assist down the road with a tractor I was flipping ! If you have none as a pattern to copy then maybe not so easy ! If it's a tractor your planning on keeping then it'd definitely worth putting the assist on your arm will thank you ! :beerchug: