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Matty6270

Hi there. I'm just after buying a Kuhn fc 300 trailed mower. Going to use it tomorrow if it stays dry. It got d gyro head. I'm wondering about the shaft going to the tractor from the gyro. Should this be completely straight or a small angle. Also what speed to travel. Thanks

Waffletraktor

Matty6270 wrote: »

Hi there. I'm just after buying a Kuhn fc 300 trailed mower. Going to use it tomorrow if it stays dry. It got d gyro head. I'm wondering about the shaft going to the tractor from the gyro. Should this be completely straight or a small angle. Also what speed to travel. Thanks

Would imagine straight but shafts run at a small angle happily once kept greased.

mythos110

John deere say to keep it straight so imagine its the same as they are a very similar mower. I have a 1365 but on the drawbar and can pretty much travel at whatever speed you can hold onto the steering wheel at and it will shave the ground!! Any speed from 10-15kph should be fine with it once you have the ponies in front of it and nice smooth fields.

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Matty6270 wrote: »

Hi there. I'm just after buying a Kuhn fc 300 trailed mower. Going to use it tomorrow if it stays dry. It got d gyro head. I'm wondering about the shaft going to the tractor from the gyro. Should this be completely straight or a small angle. Also what speed to travel. Thanks

We have a 302gli with a gyro box here . The dealer said the main drawbar of the mower should be parallel with the ground when cutting so we end up with the gyro end lower than the tractor end.
If we dont and we run the mowerwith it sitting on the ground it causes a bit of a vibration/knocking. drop the lift arms a bit and it goes away.
We have had kuhns and JDs and find the kuhns are way easier driven than the johndeeres 1360/1365s .

darragh_haven

We have that exact mower. Bought new in 1997 (i think), keep the arms ridged. Stop them from swaying from side to side and have the pto shaft straight