Has anyone built his own mower?

[minkyung]

The title of this section in the Forum has amazed me. It says, "Build-It Yourself"

I need to ask this. Has anyone built his own mower? What kind of mower is it? I am very curious. If you tell us how I'll be very thankful.

 

[Murry Furry]

Yes i have. if you take interest,reply, and i'll give more. anyway i took a 3.5 horse four cycle, and cut a slaught inbetween the bottom of the shaft, and the slaught for the key chuk, and slid a blade adapter on. then i put the motor an a old yardman mower deck i had laying around. then i bolted the blade onto the adapter.

 

[rer]

Well I have a 2002 rer that has recently had a 5.5hp briggs installed off of an old 1996 snapper bigwheel auto drive. It involved cutting the circular motor mount from the big wheel and being precision welded to the rer. I do not have pictures at the moment but can upload some later tomorrow.


"edit" I also had to cut and old square blade adapter off the 5.5's crank shaft , and for the record use a cutting wheel not acetaline.

 

[rer]

Here are the pictures of the old power built and the new 5.5 and the mower I took it from.
Please forgive my weld as it is a bit sloppy to the right but it has been a while.
I eventually plan on purchasing some fuel line to plumb in the original 3 gal snapper tank.

 

[twall]

Lotsa potential there!

That walk behind could use a LOT of TLC.....I'd recognize that drive system anywhere!

 

[JDgreen]

Great pics, lots of detail, I am pretty handy with mechanical stuff but have never attempted something like you are doing. Good work!!!:thumbsup:

 

[rer]

thanks for the compliments. I am kind of surprised nobody noticed the vaccum cleaner pipe stack. Anyway the 5.5 performs far better than the old 9hp. There is no bogging at low rpm when the clutch is engaged, and uses less fuel. I still need to reinstall the cutting deck. I suppose that will be the real test.

 

[grnspot110]

Not exactly a mower, but my 317 "Special" started out as (what was left) of a parted out JD 317 garden tractor;

I built it as a parade unit to tow other tractors &/or Lawn carts. ~~ grnspot

 

[grnspot110]

Before the 317 "Special" the came the L/60 "Custom"! I t came into my life as a JD 60 lawn tractor with a blown replacement engine (6 HP Tecumseh). Since there is no 'direct replacement' engine available, I decided to make it look "somewhat" like an early JD model "L" or "62" farm tractor. Installed an 8 HP Briggs from a "flea market" JD R72, RER. It, too, is used for shows & some light duty towing around the yard. ~~ grnspot

 

[rer]

Nice ammo box. Is that for easy access while mowing?