Gravely Pro 50 Manual
Here is my latest 'what have I done'. I just acquired this gravely walk behind mower. It is big and awesome.cept it may or may not run.
I acquired it from a guy who said it has been sitting for at least 6 years and isnt sure if there was anything wrong with it at that point. He had gotten a new Exmark and just had this as a spare. After sitting it got buried in the garage and never used.
Anybody have a mower like this that could give me any pointers? It is a Gravely Pro-300 Hydro. With a 50' mower.
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The battery is dead. After the weekend I plan to change the oil, plug, and battery and see if it will run. It is a 16 hp Briggs/stratton. Anyone know where I can find a manual? It is missing something on nthe right hand grip.
2 wires come out but attach to nothing. Dont know what is sposed to be there!????? Any help or pointers? Here is my latest 'what have I done'. I just acquired this gravely walk behind mower. It is big and awesome.cept it may or may not run.
I acquired it from a guy who said it has been sitting for at least 6 years and isnt sure if there was anything wrong with it at that point. He had gotten a new Exmark and just had this as a spare.
After sitting it got buried in the garage and never used. Anybody have a mower like this that could give me any pointers? It is a Gravely Pro-300 Hydro. With a 50' mower. The battery is dead. After the weekend I plan to change the oil, plug, and battery and see if it will run.
It is a 16 hp Briggs/stratton. Anyone know where I can find a manual? It is missing something on nthe right hand grip.
2 wires come out but attach to nothing. Dont know what is sposed to be there!????? Any help or pointers?
I have one just like it except yours is in far better condition. I have been undoing all the jury rigging the previous owner did to it. The wiring on mine caught fire and I had to rewire the whole thing.
I disabled all the safety switches. The two wires from the hand grip is a dead man's switch, I think. All the safety switches go into a relay or something under the control panel.
Mine is finally functional but there is always some little thing happening to it when I use it. When it runs, it runs and cuts great.
I'll be happy when all the bugs are out of it. Yes, I could use new tires. Northern Tools, huh? Never thought of them for tires but I'll have a look at them. Daggone rebuild kit for that carburetor is $125!
Heck, I've rebuilt auto four barrels for less. I know I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get a kit for it but it just galls me to have to pay so much for a stinking kit.
Right now I can't get it to track straight. I have to hold the left lever in a bit and after 15 minutes of that I'm ready for a break. I believe the problem is the pump actuator and I ordered a new one. Looks like the bottom broke and the previous owner somehow screwed a machine screw through it somehow. I haven't taken it off yet because the machine is usable as is and I'm in the process of rebuilding the carb on my back up machine so I need it to keep running for a bit. Once I get it installed how do I adjust the tracking? And any idea on how to adjust neutral?
I can't find a service manual or owner's manual for it because I don't know the serial number. I just found out today what model it is by sending pictures to Gravely support. I cannot find a serial number on it, though, and Gravel Manual look up insists on a serial number. I can't remember exactly but me and a friend figured it out to be around 4 1/2 plus I do a friends 1 acre lot.
Jeez, sometimes it seems like that's all I do is cut the grass. I'd say I cut at the least once a week. The road front property gets cut 2-3 times a week. The property is 10+ acres. A little less than half is wooded/wetland. There is a 280'x50' building, a tiny little house and of course the driveways. I use to cut it with a Craftsman 18hp garden tractor with a 44' deck.
It did the job but it took a long time and I would smoke too many cigarettes cutting the grass.
I am looking for a used walk-behind and have learned of two older (1994-95) gravely pro 50's for sale; one is a hydro, one belt-drive. The belt drive has an 18 hp Kohler twin, the hydro a 16 hp B+S vanguard twin. They're pricing out the same, and both owners say the mowers run and cut well. My question - I've searched this forum and have seen a lot of general complaints about Gravely w/b's and some specific complaints about the 50' gravely deck. Its not clear if everyone is talking about this vintage mower, however, or a later model that featured some design change.
Gravely Pro 50 Walk Behind Mower Manual
Does anyone have experience with the Pro 50 of this vintage that they can pass along? I had gravely Pro 50's back in 1988. They had 5 speeds and were very fast for the time. The decks were good for adjusting the cutting heights pulling out 4 pins to do so. The problem that I found was the quality of cut was poor. I also didn't like the Briggs engines on them.(problems) After a few years of having them the dealer support started to fall short.
We went from three dealers down to one and then none. Maybe thats just my area. Things may have changed I don't know. But what I would recommend is that you go with a mower that you have the best dealer support. Meaning a mower that parts and service are readily available. In my area for instance 6 Bobcat dealers. Being that you are looking at some used mowers again check out your dealer support.
If you use it just on your house about an hour or so a week buy them. But if you plan on using them more frequently check into a couple of different mowers. In my area used mowers can be found in the Seasonal Items section of the Classified paper. Gravely makes a very good product! I have owned a PRO 50 walk behind for 23 years which has been very dependable.
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I've only had to repair a weld underneath the engine deck and replace belts and a couple other items. THE PROBLEM with Gravely is there is NO CUSTOMER SUPPORT locally. If you call and ask or you go to their web site and look up your local dealers, the info you get is NOT the truth in my area. All the mower dealers say the same thing.WE USE TO.
Gravely Pro 50 Parts Manual
But they don't even want to make the effort to contact Gravely. I got a lot of run-around and wasted time and effort. Seems there has been a lot of dissatisfaction with the company for some reason. There is a place in West Virginia, that is VERY GOOD and has parts and willing to order items. Even they don't have all the parts list, etc. So you have to have the part numbers ready to give to them. Fortunately, I still have all my original manuals and parts numbers list, even though many of the part numbers have been changed.
I have been using an old Gravely Pro-50 18 HP Kohler for years. I purchased it from my Nephew who purchased it from his brother so it has a whole lot of mowing time on it. It is the belt drive which I prefer over the hydraulic. I love this machine! I had a liquid cooled Honda garden tractor prior to this and was mowing over 2 acres, and the Gravely cut my mowing time in half. No problems at all in the many years that I have used it. Only repairs on this machine was belts once, oil and filters.
Dewey from Michigan.