Mower Problems

Imon helped me load the John Deere mower into the back of the pickup and then Angie and Imon left about 2 PM Monday and headed for Jasper IN to see Angie's dad. Linda, Stacey and I took off for Glasgow to get the mower fixed at the dealership. I believed the problem was the neutral safety switch wouldn't let the mower start and seeing how the JD dealer had worked on the transfer case not too long ago, I thought I would see what they would do about fixing it. Once there, I backed the truck up to the workshop door and the guys worked on my mower right in the back of the truck, They had the seat, rear body, drive belt pulley, and several other things off in about 5 minutes. They confirmed my assessment of what the problem was and offered to order the part for me, saying it would be in Wednesday. I didn't act like that was ok, so they offered to wire around the switch. I took that offer and they put the mower back together and it was started and running in about 20 minutes total time. I asked how much I owed and the service manager said, "NO CHARGE." Great,some thanks, and with a stop at Sonic for some shakes, we were on our way home. I unloaded the mower at home and climbed on and started the mower, drove towards the gas tank to fill up, but didn't make it that far. The mower went dead. Would not do anything. Linda and I pushed it back into the truck and I pulled the truck up the hill to the driveway. It was too late to go back to Glasgow.

Tuesday morning I started to Glasgow about 8 AM to find out what had happened to the mower. I talked to the service man again and he said it was probably a blown fuse. I went out and pulled them out so he could look like I had done, but they used a light to shine thru the fuse and could see it was blown. He gave me two fuses to put in and when I did the mower started 4 or 5 times and would continue running. Back at the farm I unloaded the mower and mowed the little house yard just to see if the mower was going to keep running. It did! By then, it was nearing noon and getting too hot to mow, so I went inside to cool down and see what the girls were doing.
Linda went out and began mowing later, I was using the tractor to bush hog the trails around the hayfields and hollers. I also did around the mums, while Linda was doing the front yard, old house yard, and the barn lot. We quit about dark.