Casters for a Woods 59

[Matt Kirsch]

Has anybody priced the caster wheel assemblies for a Woods 59 deck? The entire assembly that bolts to the deck, I mean. Probably $150 each.


I'm just being lazy here, as the "green" dealer down the road from me sells Woods, and could get me a price easily.

[John(videodoc)]

dont remember the exact amount i paid for the entire bolt assembly i got last year for my woods 59, but i know it was around $50 -60 for the bolt on arm and tire. CaseIH had in stock.

[Matt Kirsch]

I just called the local green dealer.

$210 for both casters, the brackets, bolts, wheels, everything.

Now the real question: Is it worth it? Finding casters used is practically impossible, and when they do pop up, they bring nearly new price. I suppose I could fabricate up something using $10 8" casters from harbor freight and some scrap, but getting it all right could prove to be difficult.

[John(videodoc)]

darn, we gots to be talking about two different things.

[Matt Kirsch]

If you look in the 59-C2 manual either on Rudi's site or at woodsonline.com, the part number for what I'm looking for is 29750, the complete caster wheel assembly, left and right.

[John(videodoc)]

yep 2 different things. Mine doesnt have the bends like yours looks to have. I did call caseih on them, 246 for the pair here.

I had them look up the item i bought, yoke and wheel (caster), couldnt find it. (They could find everything else i had bought - makes me wonder if i got away with a really good deal-the only thing they show me paying for during that time was a wheel and assy - $46???? ).

Guess ill have to go through my receipts and see if i can find it. But i know it wasnt more 50-60 for the whole thing.

[allenlook]

I've got the ones with the bends. Took me a lot of doing last year to redrill and remount them to not interfere with the front tires. If I'd known how much they were worth, maybe I wouldn't have drilled so many holes in them

Oh well, guess I'll baby them now! Not sure they add much on top of the skid plates on both sides of the mower, but I do know that the stock ones were so much of a PITA to set up that I wouldn't hesitate to try something with generic ones from Harbor Freight, it couldn't be any worse !

[Matt Kirsch]

I was hoping the caster wheels in the middle would help prevent scalping. The lawn that my '67 mows is not exactly flat, and there are a couple of humps where the runners on the outside of the deck won't contact the ground before the center blade does.