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04-02-2012, 03:12 PM
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Cheap and easy front mower deck rollers project
hey guys. Ever since I started cutting with my 1450 I have had problems with it scalping. I have a small yard and every time I turn left I end up with ridges of grass that are too tall. I also have a few small hills that get scalped pretty bad. I have the early 50" deck with no front deck wheels. I notice a lot of the newer decks I see have front and rear wheels so I thought about adding a set of front wheels to mine.
I found a kit on amazon that is sold by MTD and meant to be add on rear deck wheels for some of their newer tractors. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...00_i00_details The brackets included are really beefy and the rollers and hardware are of good quality too. I had to put the bracket I used on the discharge side in my bench vise and bend it a little to make it fit. The other side needed no mods. Other than that I just drilled some mounting holes in the deck and bolted them on.   I will be testing this setup out in a little bit here. Hoping to see my whole yard cut at the same height, fingers crossed!
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04-02-2012, 08:00 PM
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Thanks Allen. I can say that the rollers definitely evened out my cut quite a bit especially when mowing on the hills and turning. There are still a couple spots in my yard where I cut shorter than the rest but that is just how the land is.
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-Mark 1978 1450 1976 1450
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04-03-2012, 07:31 PM
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I lost just over an inch on the left side which does limit how close you can trim in next to something. It did not seem to matter on my yard though. If I did it all over I would want to bring the brackets in towards the middle of the deck some. Still, the improvement in cut quality was well worth the 40 bucks and time spent installing them to me.
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-Mark 1978 1450 1976 1450
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09-16-2014, 06:52 PM
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Thats a great idea because I noticed the same with my 102 42" deck that it can scalp/gouge the lawn. Like brentwd said I would want to move the left side roller in because of how far it sticks out, but still great idea.
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09-16-2014, 09:21 PM
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Quote:
 Still looks great IMO.
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Daniel G.  . (May 1970) 147 w/an IH spring assist, 48" deck, 42" blade, 1969 73, #2 trailer, 10" Brinly plow and (on loan) Dad's #2 tiller.
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09-17-2014, 01:36 PM
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that is a great idea. my deck is bad to scalp in places . I had thought about doing some kind of casters but, have changed my mind.
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105(sold)782x3 &124(sold) . Lawn sweeper yard cart. Homemade 3 point hitch narrow frame sleeve hitch spring assist ih snowplows . Rear weight bracket and suitcase weights.Lots of extra parts 😀.
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