woods mower belts
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Topic: woods mower belts
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Subject: woods mower belts
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 2:01pm
- I'm sure I've heard it herethat you should only use a true Woods belt,not an imitation if you want it to last. Is this correct? Plenty of aftermarket for 1/2 price but maybe they're really twice the price? What say you. 59 belly under a Super C IH
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 2:08pm
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If you don't buy a woods make sure it's a top of the line belt a not a elcheapo
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 2:13pm
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A&I sells one made with Kevlar for about half but is it any good? Priced one nearby Woods dealer at $111 plus freight.
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Posted By: den/southern illinoi
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 2:31pm
I've had good luck with the "best" from NAPA. About half price. Den
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Own 4 wheel 20, 2-5015, 5020 and associated equipment and 2 electric forklifts.
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Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 4:21pm
I use kevlar belts from V-belts (I think) Have had good luck with them. make sure you get the kevlar ones though.
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Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK!
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 4:26pm
GOODYEAR and GATES make good belts.... Don't know who makes them for WOODS.. but I doubt they make their own.
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 4:40pm
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I've bought belts from JDV- belts. They have lasted as long as the woods belts ever did. Just look up the woods part number and they have a belt to fit it. I've tried a generic belt from the farm store and it couldn't handle all the twists. The belting back just came off. I don't rember what I got from JDV but I think it was a gates belt. It dosent matter what belt you put on it must be very tight and aglined properly or won't stay in the pulley correctly. The upper twist pulley needs to be as low in the slot as you can get it. If it doesn't hold the twist you'll ruin a belt in no time. When you get it right a belt lasts a couple years.
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 5:50pm
It's hard to beat a Gates belt. We use them on fans in the chicken houses and if we use anything else it'll be replaced before to long. The Gates usual dry rot before they wear out for us
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"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan
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Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:32am
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I have also had good luck with Gates belts.
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:40am
I too am running a Gates belt on mine after ruining the Woods belt earlier this year. Seems to be holding up fine, was about $60 at Napa. Woods belt is almost three times that!
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