Decided to try out the 1810 today and I managed to break it in about 5min! I was mowing around a tree line just playing around, when the deck wouldn't fit between two trees I went to back up and BAM BAM BAM! The tractor quit pulling and I shut it down.
Looked up underneath of it and found a few pieces of an exploded flex joint and a ball bushing that was pretty chewed up. I also had some hydro fluid leaking but couldn't see where it was coming from ( I'm really hoping that it just got the filter).
Looks like its headed to the shop tomorrow. Any ideas on what I should look at fixing or upgrading while I have it torn down? Really hoping that I didn't tear up anything overly expensive..at least I got to enjoy it for 5min!!