The lawn is mowed... Finally

The Farmall Cub has a Woods Mower Deck that we've been trying to get working for a few months now, with limited success.... That is, until yesterday!

Under the Mower Deck

Old Blades are rounded & warped, which explains why it bogged down so easily when it hit thick grass.

Blade assembly with new blades...

...which have an edge!

After mechanical failures in the Cub, missing and wrong sized pieces for the mower deck, we THOUGHT we had finally got it right! Hubby mowed the lawn all around the house including the front & back yards, the 1/2 acre on the other side of the "privet hedge", all the way up to the pond... then it just stopped! Turns out that the belt was splitting and had come too lose to stay on the bearings. It pulled off the pulleys and the mowing stopped. Yesterday, Hubby went to get a new belt for the Woods Mower Deck we have hooked up to the Cub. This morning while I was at my MG class, he tried to put the new belt on, only to learn that it was 4" too short! No amount of adjusting the pulleys would even allow him to get the belt ON the pulleys! So he put in a call to the place we got the part from... they're trying to find the right belt... again.

Go Hubby! GO!

The 1/2 acre is mowed!

 Oh well, at least the lawn is mowed... for now.

Addendum:
We got the 1st 2 belts from a parts distributor in Headland, AL (about an hour away). The 1st belt we had used was not the correct one- it was an "equivalent" (as in if you don't have the one listed, this will work). Though it was the right size, it was not the right materials nor was it designed for the job we had intended it to perform- despite the fact that it was the part listed in the dealer's parts book. The 2nd belt, while model number correct, was 4" too short to even be put on the pulleys. The 3rd (& hopefully final belt) was found thanks to the Farmall Cub Forum at farmallcub.com (Their shared experience and wisdom have been a wonderful help on a nearly daily basis) supplying the correct part number (not the one in the manual) and a local parts dealer. We'll be putting it on tomorrow morning to see if it actually DOES work.