I was tempted by the price of this mower and decided to give it a try. It has mowed about 500 acres in the past 2 years without any major hits or accidents and is already starting to fail internally. One of the spindles stripped out on its gear, which severely damaged that particular cutter as it was beat to death by the other cutters. Excess play in other cutters indicate that they will fail soon. The hitch pins are not strong enough for this mower; they are cat 1 pins necked up to cat 2. They continued to break until I just bought 1 1/8" bolts grade 8 bolts for the hitch pins. I cant imagine that they would think that anyone could use this mower on a tractor with a cat 1 hitch. Getting parts for this mower is also a pain. My local deere dealer doesnt even carry the knives for these mowers and there are no aftermarket options as of now. The blades must be ordered by the dealer and are drastically overpriced. Also, the replacement parts (like the spindle assemblies I ordered) cannot be received in a day or two by the dealer as most other deere parts can. The parts must come from frontier, then to deere, and then to the dealer. This process adds a few days to the order. Last but not least, the mower does a lousy job. Even when the mower was brand new with sharp blades it did a sloppy job cutting most types of hay. It would consistently leave streaks of partially cut grass in certain spots on the bar and I could never figure out why. It would also chop up hay and fling it out in all directions like a rotary cutter. I have used various disc mowers and have never had such issues. I played with all of the adjustments and nothing made a difference. Ive had a few frontier products that have served me well but stay away from these disc mowers; they are poorly designed
Update.... I actually still have this mower and continue to use it. There are so many bent, broken, and welded parts on it now that its really not worth what I would get from selling it. However, it has mowed lots of hay in the last couple of years without failing catastrophically; i'm pleasantly surprised that it has held up this long. I plan on using it until the bar and/or gearbox grenades itself.
@@valcon0 I've had one for several years too. Early on did have a gear break in hub. I was surprised that Deere did stand behind it and totally rebuilt the bar. But it has not been a smooth cutting bar, seems to have trouble cutting tough grass at times that slips the belt. And it it awkward to hook up.
I was tempted by the price of this mower and decided to give it a try. It has mowed about 500 acres in the past 2 years without any major hits or accidents and is already starting to fail internally. One of the spindles stripped out on its gear, which severely damaged that particular cutter as it was beat to death by the other cutters. Excess play in other cutters indicate that they will fail soon. The hitch pins are not strong enough for this mower; they are cat 1 pins necked up to cat 2. They continued to break until I just bought 1 1/8" bolts grade 8 bolts for the hitch pins. I cant imagine that they would think that anyone could use this mower on a tractor with a cat 1 hitch. Getting parts for this mower is also a pain. My local deere dealer doesnt even carry the knives for these mowers and there are no aftermarket options as of now. The blades must be ordered by the dealer and are drastically overpriced. Also, the replacement parts (like the spindle assemblies I ordered) cannot be received in a day or two by the dealer as most other deere parts can. The parts must come from frontier, then to deere, and then to the dealer. This process adds a few days to the order. Last but not least, the mower does a lousy job. Even when the mower was brand new with sharp blades it did a sloppy job cutting most types of hay. It would consistently leave streaks of partially cut grass in certain spots on the bar and I could never figure out why. It would also chop up hay and fling it out in all directions like a rotary cutter. I have used various disc mowers and have never had such issues. I played with all of the adjustments and nothing made a difference. Ive had a few frontier products that have served me well but stay away from these disc mowers; they are poorly designed
Thanks for telling your experience
Update.... I actually still have this mower and continue to use it. There are so many bent, broken, and welded parts on it now that its really not worth what I would get from selling it. However, it has mowed lots of hay in the last couple of years without failing catastrophically; i'm pleasantly surprised that it has held up this long. I plan on using it until the bar and/or gearbox grenades itself.
@@valcon0 I've had one for several years too. Early on did have a gear break in hub. I was surprised that Deere did stand behind it and totally rebuilt the bar. But it has not been a smooth cutting bar, seems to have trouble cutting tough grass at times that slips the belt. And it it awkward to hook up.
What do you do when the store that you bought your mower from won't return your money for a mower that the bearings went out after 12 hours of use ?
You sue them.
Mitici!
nice video :)))