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Hey guys
A buddy of mine and I are working on a 1450 we picked up this last weekend in hopes of it being a mowing machine. The tractor appears to be in reasonable shape and the engine/trans seem strong. The guy we bought it from only used it as a snowblower and had limited info about the machine. He gave us a couple of mule drives, a mower deck, an attachment that we cant figure out and the blower that was attached to the tractor. We found that the deck is a 44C and it is in rough shape. It appears that someone Frankenstein-ed the two mule drives together to get the 5/8 pulley on it. The tractor appears to have the original 1/2" pulley on the engine. The snowblower has a 5/8" pulley on it and currently has a gates belt on it. So being new to these particular tractors we were hoping someone could shed some light on what things should be. There is a guy nearby that sells a lot of cub parts so we are planning to go visit him but was hoping we could learn a bit more before we went there.
As i said this is going to be a working machine so being original for the sake of restoration isnt the goal but having a reliable and properly setup machine is. So with that said, should we just go get a 44A deck and return the yellow mule drive in the photos back to original state or is there an advantage to using the heavier belt setup? Does anyone know what the attachment is that has the black sheet metal on the front? Any other advice is appreciated as well.
Thanks a lot!
Adam