Belt maintanace

RobertBrown said:

What kind of mower is it?

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Bob E said:

The belt in my picture was on the mower when I got it four years ago, it was old and cracking then. I'm not too worried about getting stranded in the backyard, and nothing high dollar is going to melt down when it lets go, so I decided to see how long it would last :laughing: Cold temperature can give you an obnoxious heads up when the serpentine belt in your car is getting old, or when the spring on the belt tension pulley is wearing out, but I've never noticed much trouble beyond that with any belt. Even when the 5w30 gets so thick the starter can barely crank the engine. A good belt properly tensioned wont slip or break. Belt dressing is for the mechanically inept who are embarrassed by the sound of a worn or improperly adjusted and now glazed accessory belt IMHO.

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Bison said:

Wet from What??.....oil? The only glazed belts i have seen were belts that were constantly slipping and riding in the bottom in worn pulleys.

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Carscw said:

Water mowing on the rain.

How does a belt drive walk behind Work.

Let's see to slow down and turn the belts must SLIP

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Bison said:

Normal people cut the lawn when it is dry. I don't know,..I use a riding lawn tractor,..if i had to walk behind a mower i would buy a goat :smile: my JD 112 lawn tractor has a variable drive which uses a primary and a secondary belt. When i slow down or speed up the center sheave between the belts moves left or right to change speed,..it does not cause much if any slippage of the belts. I replaced these 2 belts only once and that was many years ago. The tractor is 42 years old.

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RobertBrown said:

I try not to ever cut wet grass..... Having said that, If I was in the mowing business, in Florida, I wouldn't start work until noon and I would be working in the hottest part of the day....Africa hot. Unless I wanted to work in the rain (which means wet grass) I would get about 3 hours a day of mowing time, as it's usually raining at some point in the afternoon. at least that has been the case this year/spring summer The grass is wet every morning as we almost always meet the dew point, so I have to wait until 11 am or so to get on the tractor, less the grass will still be soaked. You guys making a living at this, must cut wet grass to be competitive, at least here in the south.

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Carscw said:

I am right on the Georgia and Tennessee line.
I try and start at 7am on my foreclosed yards. Around 1pm I start doing my residential yards. At 6pm I go back to doing foreclosed yards till dark.
It rains almost every day at some point.

On days that it rains all day I just do foreclosed yards.
I can not just stay home because the grass is wet. I HAVE to get between 75 and 100 yards cut every week.

To be honest I like cutting when the grass is wet.

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