all right so you own a ts 248 xd here with me today is brady
he's going to be our demonstration man so we're going to first start out
with how to start this machine and come over to this side and on the
left hand side operator's position is the brake so he's going to press the
brake and then right here yes he just touched
the throttle and then right below that is the choke
so you're gonna pull the choke out have your foot on the brake and you're
gonna turn the key to the fourth position to the fourth
position it'll start up okay let's look at this key switch let
me pan around this is going to be a little bit uh
crazy to watch this video but when i start this machine
it's going to return to this position right here and i can mow with this
all day long with the blades engage i'll get to that in a minute
forward but i cannot back up and that's kind of annoying when i want to back up
out of a turn and so i can manually move this switch to allow me to mow in
reverse by doing that i'm signing the safety
waiver i'm saying hey none of this is husqvarna's fault if i run something
over but just put that in the back of your
head if you want to mow in reverse all right
so blade engagement is done how there's this red button you heard that
click happen up front that's going to engage the blades
and i want to shut them off by pushing it in we always
encourage people to engage the blades at half throttle
and then rev it up to full and then prior to disengaging i want to bring it
down to idle and then push that red button in why is
that the blades need to stop in about five
seconds so if i don't slow that engine down eventually i'm
going to wear the brake out so now how do we drive this machine this
has the twin touch hydrostatic transmission right by his
right foot if he wants to go forward brady's going
to push the inner lever and the further he pushes the faster it
goes if he wants to back up he moves his foot
out and again the further he pushes the
faster he goes what else do we have on the dashboard
here we've got a light switch right here to turn the lights on and
then kind of between his legs this is getting real comfortable
here sorry about that brady we've got a parking brake
it's that if i have my foot on the brake
and i lift up and let go of my foot
it now has the parking brake on this will allow me to get
off of the mower and keep it running
it'll allow it to start while you're not on it so if the blades are on
or if the brake is off i cannot get off of the seat to
empty the bags or move the hose that i left in the lawn
and then on this side we have a cruise control switch
okay with that cruise control switch if i'm going forward and it's a long run
i can lift up on that switch and let go with my foot and it'll keep me going at
whatever speed i am set at okay maintenance only other thing is
if your blade is engaged your mower will not start
ah yes so with the blade's disengaged then you can start it
so if you ever go out and your mower won't start the first thing i want to do
is make sure that your foot is on the brake
and that your blades are disengaged i get that call quite often hey my mower
won't start it's usually a safety switch thing thank
you brady all right on this bad boy we got a
kawasaki fr 691 v engine my air filter
is right under here this is super important to keep an eye on my air
filter especially as it's dry and dusty out i'm kicking up a lot of dirt i mowed
my lawn this weekend i had dirt all over myself my my
nostrils were full of dust so that means this engine is trying
to breathe that same air so keep an eye on my air filter
i got a spark plug right here and then being a twin cylinder
i got a spark plug on the other side my oil filter is right here
and on a kawasaki engine to check the oil
i loosen the dipstick i pull it out i wipe it off i
set it in i pull it out i check it i don't screw it in
otherwise i'll get a false reading my battery is under the hood positive
negative this is a 12 volt system so i'm able to
use any real charger to charge that battery
up generally we recommend a lower amperage
charger that seems to be better for battery life
if it's an emergency and you need to jump start your mower go for it
you can jump start this thing if you follow safety
uh protocols couple grease zerks on this machine we have one
on the front axle on each side and then there is one
on the wheel the front wheel one on each side okay so we got
four grease zerks on the front here's my height of cut
drop that deck down to whatever level i want
grease zerk there's three of them on each of the deck spindles
so grease that every 40 or 50 hours my fuel goes here and we recommend an
ethanol free fuel and this is a washout port this is
kind of a cool feature but i can see it causing some problems if not used
correctly so this is going to hook up to my hose i'm going to turn my water
on i'm going to get on my mower i'm going to start it up
and i'm going to turn the blades on that's going to create a lot of flow of
water underneath throwing that water around violently
really and that will clean the deck out you know it works pretty good if you do
it when you're done mowing but if you wait a week it's not going to
happen so here's the procedure that i recommend
i get done mowing and i get my blower out and i go clean up
all the debris around the property and then i come back it's cooled off a
little bit i hook the water up i run the blades i run them for a few
minutes and then i shut it off i take the hose
off i move the mower forward and then i run the blade a couple
minutes just to dry it out to get the water pushed out of the bearings because
sitting in there we do see some bearing failure happening
so all right what else do we want to know
ah if i want to change where my seat is if it's
too far back i can do that right here it's an
adjustable seat and then one other thing this
little silver rod here on the back just allows me to roll it
so it's a hydrostatic and they don't roll very easy but if i pull this out
i'm now able to roll this machine as long as the brake is off
okay so there's a quick brief overview on the husqvarna
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