Excellent video! Very helpful, thank you!

This video was very helpful!! It includes lots of good points. I have an X739 with auto-connect, and I had do a couple things differently to make the conversion work. For my mowing deck, my drive shaft stayed with the tractor, in a hanger (did not stay with the mower deck). So I had to move the mower drive shaft (with auto-connect) out of the hanger, and attach it to the PTO before driving over the deck. (Maybe I didn't have to attach it to the PTO yet, but I wasn't able to get it out of the hanger with the deck mounted.) And the bar that lifts the deck was locked into a fully up position (for when the blower was on). On the right side of the tractor, I had to pull a pin out that was locking a hook in place that was holding the bar up. Once the pin was out, I could rotate the hook, releasing the bar, lower the bar (a small distance) rotate the hook into an out of the way position, and reinsert the pin, locking the hook out of the way. My bar did not drop down far enough to engage the deck with just the hydraulics, so it helped to (with the parking brake on) put my foot on the bar to push it down while engaging the hydraulics.

Never mentioned that you gotta turn the knob* on hydraulics

Looks self explanatory to me. My old 265 blower had wheels to move it around, this will make my summer/winter transition more thought out.

With all due respect, you didn’t mention what needs to be done to the valve on the hydraulic 4 hose block on the tractor between blower and mower operations. It is a must.

The old gravely riders have a very similar set up. They have the pto right in front of the transmission and have a driveshaft that runs up to the front to work the blower. Kind of cool to see the old ideas carrying on.

so when do you hook up hydraulics to the deck and hook up the mower pto shaft.

Hmm, he’s stuttering a lot