Prepare Mower on Level Surface & Relieve Deck Weight

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How the Pro's Level a mower deck, Fix steering problems & set Rake for the best cut quality 4k video

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What happens here

Park the mower on the most level concrete slab available. Many shop floors are not perfectly flat, so choose the best possible surface. Once parked, engage the parking brake. Then, using a floor jack (or by hand, as demonstrated), lift the front of the mower slightly to relieve the weight from the caster forks. Place wooden blocks (e.g., 2x4s) or similar sturdy supports directly under the deck to hold it in a slightly elevated position, ensuring that the deck itself is no longer resting its full weight on the ground or the caster wheels. The purpose of this is to remove the deck's weight from the caster wheels, allowing for a proper assessment of the caster fork ground pressure.

Goal: Position the mower on a level surface and remove load from the deck to assess caster fork pressure.

Tools and materials

Floor Jack — Lifting the front of the mower to relieve deck weight
Wooden Blocks — Supporting the deck once its weight is relieved from the casters

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cutting it again so the first thing that I always do is make sure I have even cast for ground pressure so a lot of shop floors ain't perfectly flat but you want to find the best one you can okay okay so the other thing makes you can see where this concrete was cut yeah you try to stay on one slab because the country it's gonna heave that's why they cut okay so the I want to stop sort of what his bread is saying here is your floor has to be perfectly level before you should start adjusting your deck well you want as level as you can get it okay okay no that's okay and your again being one square where they cut the concrete you're going to have best luck stay on one square not sitting on two different squares okay oh yeah yeah so you wouldn't split the difference and right go down this line right here back here okay I'm gonna just cut back there on the other side okay so okay so we've we've got the most level ground we can possibly work out from what we do that so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to check to make sure these cast Forks have even ground pressure so basically what I do and I just use any board whatever we got grab some blocks okay so don't you boards have to be the same thread nope because all I'm gonna use these blocks for is to take the weight off the machine oh these decks no we're probably looking at a sixty deck this deck probably weighs 250 pounds so if I take the weight off of it I can tell if I have a light cast report I have all the weight hanging on to it I probably can't feel okay and typically what I do is I go ahead and pin it down so we have some stored energy here with the spring so right now I still got like my chains ain't one loose usually so my room would still have a little bit of weight on them brought ones a little bit like so if I can take this height adjuster now that are protruding okay okay so you want all the way down from the machine itself so if I have a light caster need to come stand on that fort I'd never be able to feel it right okay cuz that could wait on too so all I do is leave it casters you just see how it heals and this is pretty good okay so if it wasn't good would this one be doing the crappy floppy in that one movie sitting all right okay so and on this one it's

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