OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Repairs and Maintenance Questions On Ride On Mowers Questions on Greenfield Ride On Mower Frames Greenfield Anniversary 8hp Cutter tension bar

Hi
Thanks for the forum. Has helped no end as I attempt to renovate this old mower. Now I have run into an issue as I reattach the cutter deck and install the new belt. I have moved the cutter pulleys to the front set of holes and still have a significant gap to overcome to get the belt onto the last pulley. I saw that one post suggested loosening the pulley bracket nuts.
However this is what leads me to my question. I have a hinged bar that is attached to the same bracket as the cutter pulleys. The manuals say that this is a spring leaf or stabilizer bar. I suspect that these are two parts that are joined with a nut and bolt. However, what is it attached to? I can find no holes or brackets. The pics are taken with the machine standing on its nose.



Thanks again for this valuable resource an if and when I get the whole lot together and working I will relate the tale to attempt to short cut the frustrations of the next poor soul who stumbles into the DIY mower renovation big dipper.

G'day Marty,

I've got no knowledge of the anniversary machines except for having dismantled two for parts - and neither of them had that 'thing' but they both had bits missing and one didn't have a deck.

I've had a bit of a stooge around the interweb and just been outside to look at the remainders of mine. There is a u channel across the chassis plates about where your fingers are in the photos. On mine the channel has a slot in it such that the end of the 'thing' your holding might slot into it? Also, I noticed on a very blurred copy of an IPC there is a largish spring attached to the rear panel near the tow mount. Could it be that the other end of the spring attaches somehow to the hole in the 'thing' in the photo? And then it would act as a tensioner.

Not sure if I'm helping or not.

Cheers,

Hi Marty, I can't help at the moment but I will be up at a mates place in a week or so and there is an Anniversary there that I rebuilt for him last year, it is just too wet for me to bother going up there at the moment

Thank you for your thoughts. This part is illustrated in the Anniversary 12 -32 manual, but is so ill-defined as to virtually useless. There is a slot in an end panel into which this bar could perhaps fit, but there is nothing to attach it to. Anyway I appreciate your effort and comments. Regards Martin

Thank you for your response. I will await your return with baited breath.
Thank you for your potential life line.
Regards Martin

Marty, I will give my mate a ring and see if he can tell me where it goes but in reality I think he will confuse the issue but I will try

G'day folks,

My theory is that it slots into the u channel which acts as a guide and maybe this helps support the deck kinda laterally/ torsionally. A small bracket then attaches at the hole In the bar (below your fingers in the photo) to provide a point for the spring to attach to. The other end of the spring is then attached to the frame near the tow point . Set up like that it would act to tension the deck and oppose the belt tension loads.

It's only a theory.........

Cheers

Hi Marty, I have some good photos my mate has sent to me on my computer, but I don't know how to put them on here. They are fairly good but I can't see where the piece of flat bar goes from that center bolt, it goes along the top somewhere. You are missing the channel that runs across the chasis that your existing flat bar slots into. In my Anniversary bits I have here I don't have that channel I'm afraid

Channel here if required. Can pop it in the post. Freebie.

Marty, I will pm you my email address and that way I can flick the pics to you. I don't know how to put them in here

Thanks for your help. My email is karaoke@wideband.net.au.
Look forward to the pics.
Regards Martin

Hi prd
Thank you for you help. Would you mind sending a pic before sending the channel. I have no channel as far as I can tell. But I do have a small bracket which seems to be part of the mechanism. However I have no spring.
many ta's again
Martin

Marty, I have sent the pics, hope they come through. My mate doesn't think there is a spring on it but he doesn't really know. Apart from that I will have to wait till I get up there.

G'day Marty and Norm,
Wilco, Marty. I'm curious about this bracket. Could you perhaps post a photo of it?

Cheers,

prd, I haven't looked but I probably should have the channel and all the missing bits Marty needs, I'm just not sure at the moment just what he needs

Hi Norm.
I received your pics which with a little photoshopping clearly show how this stabilising system goes together. With your permission I will upload some of your pics together with pics of the small attachment (bracket) which joins the stabilising bar from my pics.
The manual for the anniversary 8 shows a very different system which seems to incorporate a belt tension function. The Manual for the Anniversary 12-32 shows the system that is present on my Anniversary 8, but in a very murky image.
Thank you both, with your help I am finding solutions which I will share to the forum
Martin

Hi Marty, put the pics up for sure I just don't know how to put up pics here that have been sent to me in an email. My mate is happy that it may have helped you

Hi Norm, just save the pictures in the email to your hard drive, generally by right clicking and selecting "save as" or "send to."

Hi.
Thanks for all the help and pics. Here are the pics Norms sent me showing how the bar threads though a hole in the back plate, with the addition of the small bar/bracket. There is a hole at the end of this






bar which I have yet purpose, but otherwise. Progress!!!

I think I just happen to know where that goes! When my daughter gets home I'll send a photo.