Here’s a picture of my new to me Jiffy Balling mower. Thanks Kent for giving it up.
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I used to mow with an H Farmall with a semi-mounted mower. With a little practice you could make a “square” corner by spinning the steering wheel and hitting the right brake as soon as the rear wheel passed the edge of the unmowed grass at a corner. The only way to make a square corner with this thing is to stop and back up at the end of each cut. But the mower does a nice job. My wife made a video of me trying it out. I’ll post a link to the video when I get it to my son, and he gets it uploaded.
Does anyone know anything about a Jiffy Balling mower other than what’s in the sales literature? (I’ve read the history of the Jiffy Balling company.) When I got this one, the main drive pulley set about ¾” too far forward to line up with the PTO. It bolted right up to the tractor, but didn’t line up. Some previous owner had taken a torch to it and cut a rough one inch strip off the back, bottom part of the mount. I assume they’d planned to slide it back and drill new mounting holes in the frame of the tractor. But that meant I’d have to drill a new hole through the front grill housing as well as really close to the Frankenstein bolt mount. I elected to just cut off the top of the mount, move the bottom section back and reweld it in place. You can see the weld here:
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You might also be able to make out where I welded back a 1 inch strip on the bottom, left side of the mounting bracket where someone had torched out a section.
I thought these were only manufactured for the early model Cub Cadets, including the Original. Do you think it’s possible that this was made for an Original and you had to drill new mounting holes? I’d sure be interested if anyone knows anything about them.
Hope this all works. I think I figured out how to post the correct images!!!