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My driveway looked like what your stuck in a few days ago. All dried up now. Can't believe how fast the snow has melted this week. |
Brings back memories of my teen years in the '70's. When I was 13 dad turned the lawn cutting over to me. Next thing I knew he told me I was cutting a few of the neighbors lawns. I would cut about 12 one acre lawns a week with the Snapper Comet and a small push mower. Had the big bagging attachment on the back. I used to love the fact I could pull wheelies with it starting in 3rd gear. That mower went a good ten years of steady abuse until Dad gor rid of it when I moved out. Thing I always found interesting is how the newer rider mowers seem to need quite a bit more horsepower to do the same thing as the old Snapper.
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When I was young I mowed with a '53 Cub and a 60" Woods mower that Dad re-engineered to turn the opposite direction, and a Keen Kutter push mower. The yard took me all Saturday afternoon with that Cub because it was saddled with a mower that was too big, and the engine only had 11 horsepower to start with, but 4, or 5 horses must have broke the fence and run off during the last half century 'cause that thing wouldn't even climb a hill in first gear with the PTO engaged.
Right now, I got a Deere John 425. It's like sunrise. I'd like to find a JD 430 garden tractor because it's more of a small tractor, than a big mower. |
All these stories of mowing lawns remind me of my stepson and the summer he decided to get rich cutting lawns. He had a self-propelled 21" Toro from the previous year and about May of that year he got a second one. On a Saturday morning I watched him drag them both out and line them up on the street and tie them together end to end. Then he got on his bike and went down the street a few yards, turned around and came back toward the mowers. He grabbed the handle of the lead mower as he went by and went of pedaling down the street towing these two mowers. I thought, "WTF?"
So I followed him. A local business had a lot of over an acre and he had gotten the contract to mow it. He had made a drum out of wood with a circumference of 20". He wrapped cable around it and staked it in the ground in the middle of the lot. He hooked the cable to a self propelled mower, then fired up the mower and set it free. While that one was going around and around he used the other one to trim up the corners. He figured this whole rig out himself. I was so proud of him I offered to help him haul the mowers next time. |
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That's the good stuff, Patrick! Sounds like your stepson is a go-gittin', industrious, and ingenious young man.
Maybe he can figure out how to make a weed eater into a tow bar, and pull three implements to the jobsite with his bike. |
In this area of Virginia people tend to go after Wheel Horse riding lawn mowers although I couldn't really tell you why...
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Love old Snappers! FIL sold my good one because he did not like it. Big problems with that!!!!! The other one that did not work as well (B&S motor kept giving issues) was sold and replaced with a Hustler. Love the Hustler!
Great old Masseys. I had a 180. Very strong Perkins diesel! It needed some repairs that required breaking the halves. It is now pulling a 10' box blade and running hay equipment. Steering in poor conditions is done with your brakes. I believe yours has the multi-speed? Use low gears. Lift up the bar connecting the two brake pedals. Brake on right pedal to turn right, left pedal to turn left. Practice a few times. Agree with the FEL helping provide enough front end weight to aid in steering. Can also make your own suitcases for the front end by using concrete. Our old unit went in places the 4wd/MWD units could not go. Enough torque to keep going through the deep mud and pull out the lumber and other equipment. And very low center of gravity, stable on the hills. Miss the old girl! |
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Brilliant idea! Tell him this is what he needs to do... Put that spare on a rim and remount it like he has it, but with a smaller front tire/rim in the center of the big spare. If that won't fit, he can always mount the small spare to the tool box just above the large spare. Also tell him that he needs to find an ammo can that will fit perfectly in the open tool box. This way he can put his tools etc... in the can and keep things weather tight! Awesome ingenuity around here man, I like it! |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1397478365.jpg Better pictures. This mower came with 12hp the old mower had 7hp. |
Needs a Panamower badge in Porsche script.
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Do you realize that toolbox is from a pre-1935 Farmall F-20?
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The best tool I have ever owned. Yanmar 3 cyl diesel. nothing stops it. Plows all winter mows all summer.
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When we moved to Florida in '70 - my step dad had one of those Snapper Comets. I used to mow the lawn periodically but would reach back and hold the governor open to rev that baby for short stints.....and it would do wheel stands too when going up the right angled embankment.
Other than that mowing seemed like kinda a non-event.... I used a 22" Toro recycler now at my place....takes about 15 minutes. ;) |
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That John Deere is da bomb with the money-chrome exhaust stack!
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Love my Deere...thanks. The stack is a piece of sink waste pipe LOL.
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