SixBolt_16G
15+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 7, 2005
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Markham,
Illinois
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I'm taking a moment and going back to my roots of small engines. I picked up a bunch of free lawn mowers (literally four of them). I also got two free pressure washers. All 6 of the engines were running after I tinkered, they all had very old gas and needed the carburetors cleaned. One of the pressure washers had a large crack in the water pump, and one of the mowers had bad piston rings, so it smoked badly and somehow started and ran with 48psi compression. I decided to toss out the pressure washer frame and install the 190cc/8.75ftlbs engine on the mower frame with bad engine. What a dangerous contraption I've made, but it's been performing impressively on the backside of my lot that hasn't been cut in at least a decade. The idle speed is probably twice that of the 148cc/4.75ftlbs Briggs mower engine. I've been mulching small trees and bushes with this death trap. Chaps and safety glasses are a must though. The flying debris out of every side at such a high velocity, it will tear your ass up if you aren't protected. I'm soon to mount a kill switch on the handle bars. The pressure washer was not equipped with a flywheel brake, and leaning down near the high speed blade to hit the killswitch is an interesting task.
The idea was to fix all of this equipment to a functional condition and give them away to anyone locally in need of such things. But this "mower" - or mulcher really - is here to stay. It has already cleared half an acre unbelievably. I really couldn't be held responsible for someone getting hurt by this thing either.
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No excuses.I never got around to turbocharging one, but a few years ago I had a pulley swapped TroyBilt Bronco with "microburst" nitrous. It lifted the front wheels a few times before the Kohler plastic cam gear crumbled to bits.