Question for Zane Thang folks

JU

If the chain is still tight with the mower on the ground, maybe back up to a ditch which will lift the rear of the mower up when it contacts the tail wheel, then tighten the chain?

If it's too difficult to re-adjust the top link chain mount, how about slipping a bolt thru two links in the chain, effectively shortening the chain?

Granted these will only work if you have a chain top link, and also your blade will be spinning while you are going down the road. I raise my tail wheel about 4 inches off the ground and head out in top gear but at low RPMs. Several people have told me it sounds like a 4 cyl Ford helicopter.

Scott

Here's what I do. If I'm going less than a mile I just stop every couple hundred yards, engage the PTO til the mower hit's it's correct height (set by the Zane Thang), disengage, go until it drops, repeat.

If I am going a long way, I just unhook the PTO shaft, bungie it to the top link, and, with PTO engaged, just go.

As for a Zane Thang, here's the deal. This weekend, I wanted to put my cows out on a new, unmowed pasture. But first I wanted to gut the grass down to about a foot so they could get to the tender nutritious grass down low. Put the 5' Hog on , swt it at a foot, and, without the tail wheel on the ground, mowed the entire thing. I did not touch the quadrant lever once to adjust height.

Get a Zane Thang. It is awesome.

Take Care
Steve

My method, however, is to disconnect the PTO shaft from the tractor while transporting my mower. With the PTO on, I get hydraulics and the blade isn't spinning..

You may be thinking about a live thang... quite a bit more expensive, but essentially it is an engine driven hyd. pump plumbed into your existing N hydraulics, giving you hyd's when the clutch is in, or the pto isn't engaged. ( I believe if you have the pto engaged you esentially get 'twice' the flow rate, due to the extra pump working in conjunction with the internal one... but don't quote me on that one.. ).

Alternately, if you don't want to shell out the few hundred bucks for the live thang.. use chains... most of us use chains on our hogs, as our hyd's leak down so fast when you come to a stop, the hog hits the ground, etc... Just lift it where you want it, chain it up, disengage the pto and go. Alternately, you can keep the pto engaged, but just disconnect the pto shaft.

And by the way.. that 2-4 minutes of lift is well.. pretty darn good compaired to my 30-40 seconds before the implimint is on the ground on my 8n...

Soundguy