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MBORO19RAM

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Cleaning up my mower to start the season. Not bad looking deck after 300 hours. Oil change in engine and transaxle next.

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Old paint brush and used motor oil, light coat on the bottom of the deck. Helps keep clippings from sticking and slows rust. (y)
 

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I've got a X320 that's over a decade old and no rust yet. I've lost a pulley and it kept going and mowing. was a pain to reassemble that puzzle.

Now if deer could stop using cheap plasic for the engine covers and crap chinese steel for the seats on my 4105 I'd be happy.
 

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Cleaning up my mower to start the season. Not bad looking deck after 300 hours. Oil change in engine and transaxle next.

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If you are going through all the trouble to pull the deck why not remove the blades and use a bench grinder where you can hold an angle on them?

I usually just pallet fork my x320 up with the loader on my real tractor and remove the blades that way when I sharpen them.

Than again I've gotten lazy and the big tractor can pull a 60" bushhog that cuts great and it is WAY more comfortable than the x320 and ill go about 30 mph, which makes doing the back 5 acres a 5 minute job instead of an hour. Only down side to that is that I have to roll the yard then as the r4 tires tear it up and it gets rough sometimes.

But when its wet I do not like having to dig the x320 out or drag it out of the mud, the other tractor I can just drop to 4 HI and away I go mowing the mud and all.

I did about 1/4 acre of my yard that was very soft by throwing 1300 lbs ( 13 sacks of portland ) concrete out and running them over with the rototiller. Made a lot of much firmer dirtcrete and the field actually really likes it and I never get stuck anymore AND I can drive my RV over it without fear of it getting stuck.

I should do that for the ditches and never worry about them again either.
 

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Slowly getting this 1987 316 back to 100%. I was 2 when this was built.

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Love those! I looked at one with external hydraulics and they are sweet old machines!


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The old ones were nigh indestrucible. The new ones are rebadged Chinese crap with a buttload of electronincs and DRM.

Just got buy a yanmar directly if you want a deere and paint it green.
 

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Unfortunately I had to sell my baby. All original ‘90’s 322. I had every attachment ever made for it including a front bucket. Damn I miss that thing. Hold their value though. 800 hours and I managed to get $12K for it all.
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