Thread: Ride-on Mower Mileage

Originally Posted by Slunnie

At 85hrs I look forward to many thousands of Km's riding my Deere.

My J.D. Ride on does not have an hour meter but we have owned it for over 10 years.

Anyone serviced the transmission on theirs. Its supposed to be sealed for life but that worries me. There has to be metal contamination in there.

Keith

Originally Posted by Saitch

Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhh!!!
686 Klms of reverse warning beeper. Noooooo!!!!

Dont hear it in the cab
Andrew

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Dont hear it in the cab
Andrew

Got this on the cab CD player Andy???

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwC2QljLn4]Motörhead - Ace Of Spades - YouTube[/ame]

About the only music that would drown out those cursed beepers

JC

MUCH better than that JC
Have a very good Alpine juke box with a USB drive
When the wireless ****s me the USB gets a hammering,LOTZ of good music on there,it even cancels out the boys on the the 40ch at times
Andrew

Originally Posted by Ausfree

What a bunch of softies, I have to push my mower!!!

Bummer eh? I used to have a car like that.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

At 85hrs I look forward to many thousands of Km's riding my Deere.

9 years later and my John Deere X340 has gone from 85 to 299.9hrs on it.

In it's life it has had:
John Deere servicebox kits every 50hrs
Replacement battery at about 20hrs
Replacement battery at about 298hrs
Deck belt at about 40hrs (I stopped doing full stick engagements)

It has been a beauty. Could do with a diff lock though.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Just stopped mowing to have some tucker & was thinking how long it takes me to mow the paddock in front of the house. With the help of some electronic devices I calculated that the paddock, averaged out, measured 250m x 50m. Now the cutting width is close to 1m so I'll have covered 12.5ks when done. (This is not counting the far ridge which will be mown tomorrow but it's only a few hours work). Time wise average speed calcs 6kph (pretty steep country) so with the hour meter on 370 hrs I done 2220ks all up. That's a good trip hey? Plenty of quality time to contemplate my navel!
And NO, I don't slash it anymore as the mower has improved the grass quality & quantity unbelievably.

Have you worked out the fuel consumption? Don't laugh I knew a guy who did this for his push mower, including servicing costs for oil, spark plugs, etc!