Hi Max,
Yes it was a pig of a thing to mow in between all the fruit trees, you get a big upper arm/shoulders workout using them when you have to keep lifting the front wheels off the ground to turn them. Next thing is to set it up with electric start, then it will be a great machine, because you have to be a man mountain to pull start these. At least with the zero turn front conversion I have an H660 here with the swivel front so I could copy what Deutscher did to the later models. I bag engineers for bad design but I must admit that whoever came up with the way they used the chassis rails to set up the zero turn wheels was a brilliant piece of design and would have saved Deutscher a bundle and also made a much improved mower. Well done to that man
