GentlemanFahmah
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Wow - some of you are hanging on pretty tight here.
Like the guy said, he's trying to just mow his lawn in his way without the tractor constantly backfiring and shutting off every time he leans away from the holly bush that takes more blood than the red cross.
I too have a newer (2 yrs) YT3000 and the seat shutoff is a royal pain in the posterior. I am 240 lbs and 6'3" tall and it was constantly malfunctioning. Another modification I made on that tractor was to take the deck height handle and chuck that in my bench vise and then use my MAPP torch to bend that sucker down instead of the straight up position which only served to try to castrate me every time I got on and off the mower with my deck at 4 or higher.
Modifying equipment to work for the owner is an age old thing. Garden tractors didn't have safety switches years ago and we managed to only maim and kill a few operators. I think that for a mower to be safe, it first has to be fully functional. If the seat switch is too sensitive and it provides no adjustment feature to make it less sensitive, then you do what you have to do to make it work for you.
Ease up and don't hold on so tightly. We'll all live to sever another limb in a rollover if that happens, but in the mean time, where's the safety switch on the grass chute that prevents owners from clearing clogs with spinning blades and losing fingers. I know a ton more people with missing fingers from trying to clear plugged grass in the catcher than from roll-overs and seat switch malfunctions.
:2cents:
Like the guy said, he's trying to just mow his lawn in his way without the tractor constantly backfiring and shutting off every time he leans away from the holly bush that takes more blood than the red cross.
I too have a newer (2 yrs) YT3000 and the seat shutoff is a royal pain in the posterior. I am 240 lbs and 6'3" tall and it was constantly malfunctioning. Another modification I made on that tractor was to take the deck height handle and chuck that in my bench vise and then use my MAPP torch to bend that sucker down instead of the straight up position which only served to try to castrate me every time I got on and off the mower with my deck at 4 or higher.
Modifying equipment to work for the owner is an age old thing. Garden tractors didn't have safety switches years ago and we managed to only maim and kill a few operators. I think that for a mower to be safe, it first has to be fully functional. If the seat switch is too sensitive and it provides no adjustment feature to make it less sensitive, then you do what you have to do to make it work for you.
Ease up and don't hold on so tightly. We'll all live to sever another limb in a rollover if that happens, but in the mean time, where's the safety switch on the grass chute that prevents owners from clearing clogs with spinning blades and losing fingers. I know a ton more people with missing fingers from trying to clear plugged grass in the catcher than from roll-overs and seat switch malfunctions.
:2cents:
