Riding mower belt issue

[SAWYER]

The last time I rode this was last fall and the belt popped off and I put it back on and parked it. I just changed the oil and fired it up the first time since then and when I engage the blades it dies and the blades require a lot of pressure to move by hand like the belt isn't on right. Does it look like I ran it right?

 

[Zenmervolt]

It looks sort of like you may have the belt on the wrong side of the pulley brake on the left side (when viewed as though seated on the mower), but I can't be sure. The general routing appears correct, but I don't know for sure about those spring-loaded dealies that look like they might be pulley brakes (these guys: http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/8646/img0306ss.jpg ).

Sounds like one of the bearings on the deck has seized. Alternately, if the mower has a blade brake the blade brake might be stuck on.

 

[SAWYER]

I was thinkning the belt might have been on the wrong side of that, it was hell to get behind that bar