BS: Disabling Tractor Safety Switches???

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 06:11 PM

I'll get it figured out...

Where's John in Kansas... He'll have some ideas...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Greg F.
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 05:47 PM

That's the brave new world - machines thinking for you and overriding human intelligence.

Just buy a new I-Phone, grab "On Star" & "Tom-Tom", log on to FarceBook & let the machines tell ya what to do. No need to use your brain - or what's left of your brain- at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 04:40 PM

No, gn-ze... I put everything back the way it was and all the safety crap is working like it's supposed to... In other words, lousy...
Not about wanting to mow backwards, Richard... There are times when things are tight and you need to back up a foot or two and can't do it without disengaging the blades causing extra wear and tear on the belt...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 04:40 PM

I know what Bobert means. Our new(ish) car has a buzzer which hoots when it is in reverse -inside the car!, and it won't go into gear unless you have a foot on the brake pedal.
I can just about understand the latter, but I wouldn't leave the keys in the car with small children anyway, but why I have to be nagged that I'm in reverse gear is beyond me. A warning outside is different.

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 04:33 PM

There are bound to be a position sensor on the engage lever for the cutter deck and another on the gear linkage - sort of like the light switch at each end of the hall - so you can't have BOTH reverse and cutter deck. Seems odd there's no override for the cutter deck, maybe with a dead man's handle, you often want to mow backwards.

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 04:17 PM

"when I went to put it in reverse the engine died..."

I got nuthin. Seems odd. How could they be linked?

Does the engine die in reverse now?

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 03:50 PM

Bobert, I had a 'ride on' mower two years ago, and it had the same disabling system. When you get off, the engine cuts out. But, you daft thing, it's for your own safety! Do you actually want a runaway mower gaily cutting your toes off? Or worse still mowing the head off a child in the garden? And do you really want to reverse happily, cutters whirring around, while you shave the cat sitting behind you? You're bonkers!

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 03:48 PM

Come on, Richard... I've been disabling these going back 40 years... I know not to to dumb stuff... These safety feature are for the mentally challenged... You know, the ones who are told not to eat their new lawn tractor or drink the gasoline...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 03:39 PM

Life insurance?

Subject: BS: Disabling Tractor Saftey Swithches???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 03:36 PM

I don't know... Seems I've always been able to figure out how to disable those miserable safety switches/relays/grounds so that you can get off the mower with the the engine running and back up with the blades engaged so...

...I just got a new Craftsman and right here under the seat are 2 wires with a push on connector and 1 wire with a push on connector that go to ground if you get off the seat so...

...I bundled them and took care of the problem of the engine dieing if you got off the seat but then when I went to put it in reverse the engine died...

So I put it back the way it was until I figure out how to accomplish this correctly...

Any ideas???

B~