Re: Common JD 140 problems

Thanks Joe. I spent several hours yesterday surfing the web and did find weekendfreedommachines, spent an hour or two there looking at all the resto's. Wow there are some nice 140's there. As far as I know, only the mower deck comes with it. It has the three levers on the left of the hood with the two hookups on the front, so does that make it an H3? The owner, who I understand bought it new, used it to mow his yard and move boats around for his marine shop. He has a large steel tractor style bumper on the front that he told me he used to push metal boats around that apparently didn't have a trailer. So I'll definitely have to check those front hooks. I don't forsee me ever having a frontend loader, but since I have a welder and love to tinker, it's possible. I would love to have the front blade and tiller, but that will just have to come with time.

I've never owned a John Deere, but I'm pretty sure I will buy this one unless something is wrong with it. I'm building a house and the yard is much larger than what I've ever had, probably in the 3 acre range. Granted for what this 140 will cost me I could probably buy a fairly new MTD built mower, but dang those things are built cheaply! I just recently sold a White that I bought new in '97 as I knew it couldn't handle that yard, and currently I'm using an early 80's model Snapper LT-16 that does an okay job, but it's not hardly stout enough for my liking. I'm really excited at the thought of owning this 140 after seeing the large following it has.

Thank you for your help, I greatly appreciate it.

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