I have a Massey Ferguson 135 up there that I pull a 6 foot bush hog with. I was grading my driveway with a 9 foot grader blade and a piece of clutch linkage broke, so the field started getting over grown. Last spring I took my 20HP diesel FEL up, and it pulled the 6 ' bush hog fine, and about half way through the field, it blew a radiator hose. The little 265 is really just for the front yard, right in front of the old trailer, and the rifle range. I also have a JD X500 and an X540. If i really start to run out of mowers, I can take the Snapper pro, 52" walk behind with a Velke on it. It's about 7 acres in the field. The walk behind would get it, but the bigger tractors are more fun to play with. I only mowed about half an hour yesterday. I don't like to let stuff set too long if I don't have to.You routinely mow all that grass with just a riding mower? I guy you said it property and not your home, so I guess you don't want to risk someone breaking in and stealing something better. No disrespect to the JD.
You picked up a 075 for $20? How trashed was it?
Well, the top cover has rivets holding the cracks together, the handle has rivets in it, and it's locked up. I've bought 19 saws from this guy for 10-20 bucks each. Except the first one. He sold me a running Homelite Super 1050 with a full wrap bar on it for $40. I'm into big saws and all but one were over 70CC's and 10 were over 90CC's. Right now I have a Mac 7-10 on the bench, I just got the parts to put it back together, then a Pioneer 700, 106CC's is next, then a Homelite 770 gear drive. That will probably take me the rest of the year. OH, the only way I know it's an 075 is the guys on the chainsaw forum said that the manual oiler button on the front gives it away as an 075. Otherwise, I have no idea what it is.