Hello All

[STEELMAN]

sorry to chime in late but i just noticed the talk about hydro drives. first thing is as far as lasting they can pull more than any other (normal) transaxle ive used. by normal i mean excluding the real big stuff you find in some j.d, simplicity, cub .....etc and as far as rpm a jackshaft solves that and is less work than swapping to a 700 tranny. with all that said my old craftsman hydro was the best trail mower i ever had. (swapped it to a 700)

[Chris]

Hydros are excellent, the only problem is you can't overdrive them. You'll burn 'em out and not gain any speed. If you could got from a hydro to some type of gearbox that would be optimal.

[STEELMAN]

as far as rpm a jackshaft solves that and is less work than swapping to a 700 tranny.

maybe this will be the mission this winter so hydro's can have a name

[Chris]

Hydros would be excellent, but your speed is limited w/o a gearbox of some sort. I had an idea once for my Recovery mower to run a Hydro to a 700 so I'd have the variable speed of the hydro and the extra gears to fine tune the speed for torque (pulling/towing someone) or speed (running the trails).