plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
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plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
No plans, Just food for thought.
You could adapt parts from an old riding mower pretty cheap. Also, the hubs on small trailers, like boat trailers look an awful lot like those spindle housings on a mowing deck. Old riding mowers are a goldmine of parts for tinkerers. -- Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast USA Moderator of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/castinghobby/ http://www.plansandprojects.com "A man who works with his mind, heart, and billfold is an Entrepreneur" Joe Martin, owner of Sherline Products, Inc. "Craig Suslosky" wrote in message om... Does anybody have plans for a brush hog type mower to pull behind a four wheeler? I wouldnt be cutting brush, just rough grass, not my front lawn. I have seen a few in catalogs but not in person. I have a 16HP B&S motor to use, some wheels for the back. I would have to buy or make blade spindle housings, and blades. I was looking at a Ferris mower at work the other day. It looks pretty rugged, but I couldnt see the spindle housings. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? Any help would be great. Thanks, Craig |
plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
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plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
My friend and I are currently making such an item. Only thing its will
be pushed instead of pulled by the 4 wheeler. Made the deck from 14 ga sheet steel, with reinforced lips, has three blades and is suspended from a tubular steel frame which rides on pneumatic tired casters. Power is a 14hp elect start B & S with a centrifugal clutch driving the blades, which we made spindles for and I cast the aluminum spindle housing for. Blades used are commonly available and basically this unit was built around the cheaper and more readily avalable blades as found in wal mart etc. We have no plans per se, but looked around on the internet for various factory made units, and took the best ideas we found and incorporated them into our design. It will be a 60" cut. Nothing needs to be real fancy about the deck itself, and IMHO the most important part is the ease to hook it up and also the height adjust. Just look at a basic lawnmower and scale it up. Regards On 15 Jul 2003 09:37:09 -0700, (Craig Suslosky) wrote: x-Does anybody have plans for a brush hog type mower to pull behind a x-four wheeler? I wouldnt be cutting brush, just rough grass, not my x-front lawn. I have seen a few in catalogs but not in person. I have a x-16HP B&S motor to use, some wheels for the back. I would have to buy x-or make blade spindle housings, and blades. I was looking at a Ferris x-mower at work the other day. It looks pretty rugged, but I couldnt see x-the spindle housings. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? Any x-help would be great. x- Thanks, x- Craig -- Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Contents: foundry and general metal working and lots of related projects. Regards Roy aka Chipmaker // Foxeye Opinions are strictly those of my wife....I have had no input whatsoever. Remove capital A from chipmAkr for correct email address |
plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
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plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
I'll never forget the Iowa farmer mowing his front yard on a garden tractor
with 4 push mowers dragged behind, 2 off either flank. Joel. phx "Craig Suslosky" wrote in message om... Does anybody have plans for a brush hog type mower to pull behind a four wheeler? I wouldnt be cutting brush, just rough grass, not my front lawn. I have seen a few in catalogs but not in person. I have a 16HP B&S motor to use, some wheels for the back. I would have to buy or make blade spindle housings, and blades. I was looking at a Ferris mower at work the other day. It looks pretty rugged, but I couldnt see the spindle housings. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? Any help would be great. Thanks, Craig |
plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
We had this discussion at work not too long ago... One of our
inspectors was complaining about how long it took him to cut his lawn with the lawn tractor. IIRC, they came up with two solutions. One was to haul a few run-of-the-mill push mowers behind, and the other was to haul some of those man-powered old-fashioned mowers behind. (He http://cleanairgardening.com/reelmowers.html?br38) Not that he would have spent $200 a pop for them, more like scrounged them from flea markets, auction sales, etc. They figured that less could go wrong with the manual ones, and they wouldn't have to gas up four push-mowers plus the lawn tractor. Don't know if he's actually started working it or not. chem Joel Corwith wrote: I'll never forget the Iowa farmer mowing his front yard on a garden tractor with 4 push mowers dragged behind, 2 off either flank. Joel. phx "Craig Suslosky" wrote in message om... Does anybody have plans for a brush hog type mower to pull behind a four wheeler? I wouldnt be cutting brush, just rough grass, not my front lawn. I have seen a few in catalogs but not in person. I have a 16HP B&S motor to use, some wheels for the back. I would have to buy or make blade spindle housings, and blades. I was looking at a Ferris mower at work the other day. It looks pretty rugged, but I couldnt see the spindle housings. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? Any help would be great. Thanks, Craig |
plans for "Brush Hog" type mower for 4-wheeler
IIRC, they came up with two solutions. One was
to haul a few run-of-the-mill push mowers behind, Thinking about it, I realize I must have liked mowing a lot less than building mowers... I have had two sets of pull-behind reel mowers on my homemade tractor (another long story...) I made one from 3 conventional powered reel mowers. They had a ratchet clutch so that powering the reel (original setup) powered the wheels. I needed to go back to having the wheels power the reels, and I found that reversing the two ratchet clutches right-to-left reversed the action. So: THAT one can be done... Later I traded an engine for three commercial golf-course pull behind reel mowers. Ran that for 10 years. Got a new house with a lot of rough grass-weeds that didn't mow with reel mowers. Put 3 typical person-pushed rotary mowers ganged behind the old tractor. Cut most stuff fine. The 3 mower engines plus the tractor gave it a sort of Ford TriMotor (Another long story ending up in the Smithsonian) acoustic signature. You can do it if you're willing to weld and hack a little. Jeez.. I hadn't remembered some of this stuff for years... -- Regards, Terry King ...In The Woods In Vermont The one who Dies With The Most Parts LOSES!! What do you need? |
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