OT (woods mower)

[steve19438]

I have the opportunity to buy a Woods RM600 finish mower for 500.. light usage and barn kept. side discharge. will only use for cutting yard grass.

opinions on mower and price please.

thanks.

 

[DGinVT]

I have a similar mower but one size smaller, does an excellent job. From here the price seems very good.

 

[dougw12]

Bought a used RM600 back in 2008 and been mowing 5 acres twice a week since using my 1948 8N. Mine is a 96 model year so it is 19 years old. I replaced the original belt last year. I have not had to do anything else with it except normal maintenance.

 

[Jim in Ma.]

If it where near me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

 

[TheOldHokie]

(quoted from post at 06:50:07 06/10/15) I have the opportunity to buy a Woods RM600 finish mower for 500.. light usage and barn kept. side discharge. will only use for cutting yard grass.

opinions on mower and price please.

thanks.

Good mowers and reasonable price if well cared for and lightly used. IIRC my RD7200 cost roughly $1800 new and that was nearly 20 years ago....

TOH

 

[John in Mich]

I have an RM600. I bought it used and have been using it about 20 years. I have replaced the belt once, the side skids once and the wheels once. I grease it before every use. I mow about 3 acres around my house and barn and another 1.5 acres of path around my back lot.
The thing I would change is remove the height chains on the front and ad a set of wheels. It does scalp once in awhile when tractor rear tires go into a dip and does "hike up" if front wheels go into a dip.
I pull my mower with a Jubilee in third gear. I used to pull it with my '52 8N in third gear and it handled it well if I kept up with grass growth. I had a 7' Woods for a short time but it was just too big for my yard and I sold it.
My son also has an RM600. He mows over 2 acres every week with his Jubilee.

 

[touringsedan]

I have an RM-59 good mower, seems like a decent price. We mow about 3 1/2 acres with ours.

 

[old]

If you can I will say try it out before you buy it. I have 2 that we got used and both need new bearings put in. Not woods brand just finish mowers.

 

[steve19438]

if it was on a tractor and I could hear/see it run it might already be on one of my tractors. I hate buying something that runs off pto that's not hooked up.

 

[kldenny01]

Even if you have replace a bearing it's still a good price. I understand the want to see it run first, I bought a Bush Hog 5 foot rear discharge at an auction, had to rebuild one spindle a replace bearings on other two spindles at about 150.00. But it should last another 10 yr or so.