Safely reaching the blades and underside of a large riding mower or zero-turn takes more than lifting it off the ground. A purpose-built mower lift provides stability, working clearance, wheel restraint, and mechanical protection during maintenance.
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The MoJack XT 750 is the heavy-duty step up from the smaller mower lift previously evaluated here on DirtFarmerJay. It provides 750 pounds of front-end lifting capacity, up to 25 inches of lift, and accommodates outside front-wheel measurements from approximately 31.5 to 62.5 inches. At about 99 pounds, this is a substantial piece of equipment, but the wheels make it movable, and the lift comes apart to reduce storage space.
The mower's front wheels sit in adjustable wheel pads and are secured with safety straps. As the mower rises, the Carrier Locking Pin engages one of the Safety Holes in the tower. This provides positive mechanical protection before work begins underneath the mower rather than depending solely on the lifting mechanism to support the load.
Safe mower maintenance also means following the operating procedure carefully: work on a hard, level surface, shut off the engine and remove the key, properly secure the mower to the lift, engage the Carrier Locking Pin, chock the rear wheels, and apply the parking brake at the appropriate point in the lifting procedure. Always follow the manufacturer's instructions for your particular mower and lift.
The XT 750 can be raised with the supplied manual crank or powered with a drill, making repeated lifting considerably quicker and easier. Its mobility and folding design are particularly important for a nearly 100-pound tool that will normally be moved into position, used for maintenance, and then stored until the next service.
We found the unit to be “beefy.” However, the welds weren’t as pristine as we’d like to see. Although they were structurally adequate, the welds were globby - as if a person in training did the assembly. The paint was good, however.
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MoJack provided the XT 750 mower lift and deck scraper featured in this episode. DirtFarmerJay retained editorial control over the evaluation.
The deck scraper is a natural companion to the lift because accumulated grass and debris underneath a mower deck can hold moisture, interfere with airflow, and contribute to corrosion. Raising the mower provides the access needed to clean those areas thoroughly while also letting you inspect blades, spindles, belts, and the deck itself. You can purchase a MoJack Deck Scraper here:
We've previously evaluated the smaller MoJack ZR 350, which provides a lower-cost solution for many residential riding mowers. You can see that evaluation at:
This XT 750 evaluation won't end when the cameras shut off. After the initial setup and demonstration, we'll place the lift with a mower owner who can put it into regular service. We'll return in about a year to inspect the lift, document how it's held up, and, most importantly, hear from the person who's actually been using it.
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Dirt Farmer Jay reviews the MoJack XT750, a heavy-duty lift designed for zero-turn radius mowers. The lift supports up to 750 lbs, allowing users to safely perform under-deck maintenance. The video covers unboxing, assembly, and a field demonstration, highlighting the tool's utility for scraping decks and replacing blades.
Hey, Dirt Farmer Jay here from DirtFarmerJay.com.
If you own a zero turn radius mower,
you need to consider getting one of these lifts
that can lift up to 750 pounds
and allow you to work under that mower safely
to maintain it, to scrape the deck and so forth.
I'm gonna walk you through the assembly
and a review of it.
Stay tuned.
Hey, Dirt Farmer Jay here from DirtFarmerJay.com.
Well, let's get going
on this the Mojack.com or Mojack XT750 zero-turn radius mower lift.
Let's just get to it.
We're going to unbox it and then start putting it together.
Here we go.
All right, as you can see, it comes in an outer box.
It arrived by UPS.
Once we're moving that box, we're down to this inner box.
Let's open this up and see what we got.
One thing I'm noticing right away as I'm taking
the components out, these are heavy duty.
This unit right here is right at 100 pounds, 99 pounds.
So as we see later, it's a good thing it
comes with wheels and it can be moved around for stowage
and that sort of thing. But initial
impressions, fit and finish looks pretty doggone nice.
Gauge of the metals, the overall weight,
heft, so far so good. Let's continue.
Instruction manual, looks like it's got some nice pictures on
By the way, this is called the 750 XT,
meaning it lifts 750 pounds on the front edge of a mower.
Nice parts list with the expanded view right here, what they're called,
and then we just start working through what's needed.
Right off, it tells us that we need a 19 millimeter
and a 13 millimeter wrench.
I'm going to get those and get them on the table.
All right, we're gonna assemble this,
but we're gonna show it as a sped up time lapse
so as not to waste your time and maintain your interest.
But you can just follow along in the manual when you get it.
I'm gonna use the same steps.
If there's something in here that's problematic
or takes a lot of head scratching to get it figured out,
I'll call it out, otherwise let's get to work.
Okay, we've got it assembled. We've got it down on the floor.
As you can see, Rob and I moved it, and 99 pounds.
It's a little bit bulky, but for the gauge of metal and the lift
capacity of 750 pounds, you can see that it would have to be heavy.
A couple things that we saw right off here.
Just observations,
we're going to look at it for original fit and finish.
Overall, very heavy duty.
Handle is handy here as far as lifting
on the two little roll-around wheels.
Obviously, this is designed for being on hard surfaces.
It's not good for gravel, sand, dirt areas, and all that.
It would be on either a concrete apron,
or it would be on a shop area, something like that,
a bay in a garage where you would do this to lift it.
These are adjustable. These bars right here are adjustable
in different pitches to allow the front wheels to drop deeper
in and then these are strapped over the top for safety.
Obviously the rest of the mower is going that way,
the back end of the mower.
There is a crank rod with a safety.
This little dude right here pops in and out.
If it lowered all of a sudden, it would hit a certain area
and then drop in and then the safety would engage.
We showed the installation of putting a handle on it,
but in the field when we show it to you here being operated, the handle
is going to be off and we're going to use a 3-8ths square drive
and a cordless drill driver to raise and lower this very quickly.
So we're not doing this.
This gives you great leverage. You can see it moving,
but you can see I've got to do a lot of cranks to get it to move.
So if we can automate that a little bit and do that, that'll be great.
At first glance, it looks like these pins would come in and out
and you'd be able to adjust these.
That's not their primary, and I'm not even sure you could really use it
that way because you're going to run out of depth where these collide.
When you put them together,
where you're really going to adjust for the width...
From center line to center line
or outside edge to outside edge of your wheels is this right here.
You're going to pull this and then you can adjust,
slide this back and forth where it needs to be.
And of course, you would center the load on the jack
so that it's lifting up to 750 pounds equally.
Not one end is carrying more weight than the other.
The handle up here allows you to move it around.
And as you could see, this, you could stow this by a pull apart pin
and all that if you want to do two separate parts.
But this probably does a good job
of stowing it up against the wall or in a corner,
some area that you would access it
for regular maintenance of your zero-turn mower.
So, looks good overall.
Now, what we're going to do is we're going
to show you how it works in the field,
our initial impressions.
But right now, while it's new and shiny,
I want to make a couple observations.
Okay, number one, a lot of heft in it.
As it would need to be to lift what we're going to lift number two
Parts are pretty well thought out as far as what's in the kit
The pictograms are pretty good. There are a couple places
I was a bit confused and I really had to look twice one of them.
You need to be careful of is
these big lift bars
In this end in here, there's a whole blank spot, and here,
the last hole is right about an inch from the edge to the end.
If you reverse one of them, which I did,
then you have uneven holes and it doesn't work correctly,
nor is the bar inserted deep enough in this sleeve.
So watch that, okay?
And that's kind of easy to overlook in this pictogram.
The third thing I would mention...
For the price point, the quality is good.
However, the welds
and the finish on this is not as smooth as I would like.
There's just some globbyness.
If you look down here in this gusset and all that,
big old glob right here.
And that's not to say it's not structural
and it's not going to hold together.
It's just not as uniform and as smooth as...
Yeah.
As I'd like to see, and I'm sure many other people would as well.
For again, the price point,
though I think you're getting a good value here.
I think the machine's going to serve us well.
We're going to go ahead and put it in use in the field,
and then we're going to come back to you
and give you some further observations.
All right, let's go ahead and put this to use.
As you can see, my friend and neighbor Mark here
standing beside his Cub Cadet zero-turn mower.
We're going to go ahead and use that mower
and lift it. So after we install the main mast,
as you've seen earlier in the installation portion,
you can utilize the hand crank,
and you can see the speed in which the hand crank works. If you
prefer to use the hand crank, you can.
Later on, we'll show it using a 3/8-drive drill, which is a
a lot faster.
But if you like the crank, you certainly can do that.
Now, after we install the main lift bracket,
we're going to go ahead
and then do the installation of the two lift arms
that have the cradles on them, the outriggers, if you will,
that the mower is going to drive on.
And as we've now installed them, we'll go ahead and lower it.
You can see the drill driver there being used.
One thing we should point out that
There are safety detents along the main mast,
so as you lower it or raise it, you'll have to pull the pin in and out,
and this is a deliberate safety feature.
So now that we've lowered the cradles down all the way to the ground,
Mark's going to go ahead and drive the mower onto the lift
and get it into the cradles.
You can see the crossbars.
Behind the wheels it drives on.
If the wheels drop a little bit too far, those bars can be repositioned
so that the wheels are cradled correctly for your model mower.
Now that we've got the mower in the cradles
and secured with the straps, here you can see Mark lift the whole mower
with the lift using a driver drill and the speed in which that happens.
Again, there's that safety.
Along the side as it raises,
there's at least three different positions along the side that
those pins will lock so it can't drop if there's some kind of failure.
So you'll just need to pull
the pin out as you go. Watch that because as you raise it
and you keep driving the motor but the
pins lock, you're going to yank the drill right out of your hand.
Once the mower is lifted into
to its lift, full lift position
that you intend to work under the mower with.
Go and install chocks along the back on both wheels
so that the mower cannot back up
any way shape or form.
And as you can see here, Mark goes ahead and services
under the mower.
In this case, zero turn radius, it's very common to have a three blade
setup. So using an impact driver and the correct socket size,
Mark is removing the blades and then
And then...
MoJack offers a really nice scraper
that you'll see in the description below
that is nice to use to clean off all the grass underneath
and just dress up the underside of
the deck. What makes it different in the scraper
is it's the right stiffness and the corners are
rounded off so they don't dig
and they follow along the contours of the underdeck very nicely.
So once everything is serviced underneath,
When the blades are put back on,
it's time to remove the chocks and then go ahead and lower
everything down and then unstrap it,
back the mower off, and then now you are ready to
disassemble the unit, to store it,
take the outriggers off. It's fairly heavy.
Are you happy?
I wish that the mast folded down cleanly
so that those two pieces stayed together.
And the only thing that came off of it was the outrigger,
but that's not the way it's set up.
So it's a little inconvenient,
but for the work and the utility you get out of the unit,
I think it's going to be a hard worker for you.
At the time of filming, this Mojack XT750 is $489.99.
However, since you're watching this video,
you can use a promo code that my friends at
themojack.com were generous enough to share with me.
And if you use that code DFJ, D-F-J-A-Y, you can get 10% off any
of the lift products that they have there at the website only,
not on Amazon or any of their retailers like Tractor Supply or Lowe's.
You can go to the website, get 10% off,
and that's good for lifts, not any parts and accessories.
But 10% off on something like that, that's a nice savings.
And I think you're going to be happy with being able
to have this capability to work safely and conveniently
for maintaining your mower.
We know you enjoyed this video,
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