I just bought an 1862

[darkminion_17]

Looks like a nice mowing tractor, are you going to use it this winter to plow snow?

[thecause17]

Originally Posted by West Valley G

I was checking out the wheel
weights in your video, don't know much about them. What do they weight?

Ken

Me either, nobody seems to know what they are for sure, but the best guess right now is New holland. I'm not sure what they weight, I haven't checked, but if I had to guess I'd say around 50lbs.

Got the bagger put on yesterday, hoping to mow with it this weekend.

As far as plowing snow, I don't have any other attachments for this, and at this point, I don't have plans to add any, at least for a while. My other tractor has a snowblower, front blade, center blade, sleeve hitch, weights, chains, all that stuff, so for now, it's going to maintain most of those duties and the 1862 will take over for mowing.

[thecause17]

One other thing I noticed yesterday. I noticed that the deck has down pressure and doesn't float. I think I've read before that there's a pin that needs to be removed to allow the deck to flow. Anybody familiar with that? I really don't want down pressure with the deck and not sure why it's been left like that. Yesterday when I took it out in the yard to try it out, I dug one side of the deck into a hill to the point it got the tractor stuck and started spinning tires. The deck should've floated when the wheels touched the ground.

[thecause17]

I looked further into the float lockout pin for the mower deck and took the tunnel cover off and found that the pin wasn't installed. I still think it was odd that the deck didn't ride the hill like I though it would. Maybe it's just a little different behavior than what I'm used to with other tractors.

I took some time to level the deck, it was way off, both side to side and front to rear. By the time I got done with that, everything had dried out enough that I could go ahead and mow/bag leaves. It worked great, did an excellent drop sucking up the leaves that had fallen so far. I'm looking forward to having a cleaner yard this year.

[Mike McKown]

That 46" deck is a great high vacuum deck. The three bags won't hold too many leaves but a lawn vacuum attachment works great with this deck.

[thecause17]

Originally Posted by Mike McKown

That 46" deck is a great high vacuum deck. The three bags won't hold too many leaves but a lawn vacuum attachment works great with this deck.

The bagger will do what I need to do. If I have to empty it a few times, which I suspect I will, that's fine. I thought about getting a leaf collection system, but I don't think it would've worked well with some of the tight areas I need to get into and I decided that a bagger would do the job.

Looked a little closer at the brakes today. It's definitely been a while since they've worked properly. I adjusted the right side and it works fine. The left side has an incorrect spring installed and it won't provide the correct tension, so I have another on the way. They should be fine once I install the spring and adjust that side.

[ACecil]

Congrats on your nice 1862!

[thecause17]

I've used the 1862 for leaves a few times now and I'm pretty happy with it so far. It has definitely made cleaning up leaves a whole lot easier around here.

I've also slowly been going over it and taking care of any issues it has. It needed a new belt from the PTO to the deck, the one that was on it was the wrong one. It was also missing the lift height adjustment knob so I picked up one of those too. This week-end I replaced the low fuel switch, which you can see in this video:

https://youtu.be/DFlAVDFiJ1k

[thecause17]

Looks like I might be pulling the engine out over winter to go over it. Leaking a fair amount of oil onto the concrete floor of my shed. It didn't do this right after I bought it, but after using it for leaf cleanup I noticed it the last two times it went in the shed.

How are these engines to pull out? Pretty straight forward?