How many have disabled the seat interlock on their mowers or tractors? It's still in place on my current machines, but I have done it in the past. It's inconvenient to set brake, etc and get off just to throw a stick out of the way.
I was working on my zero turn trying to diagnose a problem and had the seat switched bypassed. Ran it that way for a little while before hooking it back up. Later while mowing around the pond it got wanky on me and went in to the pond throwing me off the seat and rolling the mower deck over my foot. I am real glad I had reconnected that switch as it died before trimming my toenails.
Normally I am very intolerant of bs "safety switches" but the seat switch is one I won't be disconnecting again.
