Me and my brother having fun around the property. Tearing apart old engines, or getting them running again. Cutting ridiculous amounts of grass in odd ways. Modifying and ripping around with the go kart, and other random things
Swap the wheels over leave it low at the frunt when you get high grass the big wheels on the back will help to leaver it over the tall grass when you push down on handle
I bought one and put it on a go kart but it was too slow so I took a junk four wheeler engine and made it into a standalone transmission and hooked them together
For this model it's quite simple, the line coming from the purge bulb connects to the top of the carburetor, and the larger outlet at the bottom of the carburetor goes to the main green fuel line that comes from the tank.
What cc is that engine. Also I was thinking of just getting a centrifugal clutch and having a chain going straight from the centrifugal clutch to the back axle. What tooth gear is that?
This is a 212 cc engine with some intake and exhaust performance mods. A centrifugal clutch is good for certain applications, but it will make your kart pretty slow off the line since you'll have to gear it for the top end. Once you get up to speed though, a centrifugal clutch is actually more efficient because you're not wasting any of your energy through a belt. It's also a course simpler and lighter.
Job well done guys!!! I have a very similar Stihl that makes a knocking noise at times. You have me wondering if the clutch is going out. And yes that RC car sounds great. Hopefully some vids on building it
I own a chinese 6 kw, 230volt diesel generator and it works fine. Brandname lawntop. Rather loud though, so I placed it in a free standing janitor for gardening tools made of concrete blocks. Have it running out in the open would cause my neighbors to complain.. The fueltap is crappy and leaks. I catch the leakage in a small container. Good emergency power supply.
Nice, mine has a little fuel leak as well unfortunately. They are very noisy even if you put a good muffler on it the diesel knock is quite loud. The nice thing is they just sip on fuel. I only refill mine every few months and I use it for a diesel powered air compressor.
I'm not sure if that was meant to be an insult or a compliment... I've heard different alternative fuels can run in these engines quite well, such as vegetable oil and biodiesel, etc.
Important note: I meant this video to be a general overview of the differences between 2 stroke and 4 stroke engines in the small engine world, and why they are typically used in certain applications. I was not trying to say that only 4 strokes are used on lawnmowers, and only 2 strokes on handheld equipment. There are exceptions that work quite well, as I mentioned in the video.
I’ve got a Troy-Bilt JumpStart TB625 EC weed trimmer that’s actually a 4 stroke, but it’s certainly not the norm for trimmers. That one has the ability to swap out the end for an edger as well which certainly can be handy. At one point my brother had about 30 different weed trimmers he had collected up to work on / people gave him / he found, but this was the only one he found that was a 4 cycle like this (as far as I know). It’s certainly on the larger side but I feel Iike I’ve used bigger / heavier duty trimmers than this before. It also does have an optional sling strap to help take off some of the weight but I haven’t always used that with it.
Honda makes a 4 stroke string trimmer that is well regarded. And the Stihl 4-Mix trimmers are 4 stroke engines but they use a 2-stroke style fuel/oil mix that lubricates everything the way a 2 stroke does.
the only reason Lawnboy quite selling 2 strrokes was due to stricter emissions they were light weight and ran forever as long as you didnt forget to add the oil to the fuel .
Sanding the cut off lip to get that wicked edge off it....yep- MUCH safer now. Definitely going to make something like this. I think more exposed blade would be my plan - inch or two would help me with our brush.
Forgot to put your steel toed flip flops on... and long pants- couldn't tell if you had ear pro or eye pro. That whole contraption is dangerous as hell- there are SO many possible bad outcomes from this hack job. And I'm making one just as soon as I can. Good luck to you.
@@jamiewarner9101 not quite true. Lawn boy made mowers all the way from the early 50's to the mid 2000's. Engines include: Iron horse 'a' series engines, Iron horse 'c' serires engines, OMC 'c' series engines, OMC 'd 400' series engines, OMC 'd 600' series engines, 'f' series engines, 'm' series engines, 'v' series engines, and finally 'e' or 'duraforce' engines. Of course there are many before the 50's on rare reel mowers made by omc, but those are hard to come by and don't have a lot of information about them out.
Hey Boss. You've got a type B machine. Put a collecting cup in the backside just under the middle "spout." Type B will process out winning and losing balls to a storage area. Type A recycle balls. I think you've mainly got it figured out. You just need a lot more balls in the machine to make it run properly past the no-ball status. No electrical components are needed to work the game. The wiring just makes the lights come on with a win. Feed in balls to fill the machine from the very top hopper. Play balls from the middle front tray to the flipper as you discovered.
Thank you for the information, as I've heard, you do have to manually recycle the balls. It came with a baggie with 30-40 more steel balls, so hopefully that's enough. I've heard that the electrical system just runs lights, and can be powered by 12V AC or DC. But it's good to know you can use the machine without the electricals working.
Im on the road with a project like this. I bought an old cambell and hausfield air compressor for 30 bucks, and wanna soft convert it over to diesel. What i mean by "soft converting it is converting it, but in such a way where you still can put the electric motor back on it and still keep its originality in case i wanna sell it. Im hoping it will mount well on the compressor itself. The clutch is a good idea btw
Like I said, in the video, it is ultimately up to the individual to decide for themselves what they believe is safe footwear. As for shorts, there is no logical reason why they would be more dangerous than pants for mowing. That is purely personal preference.
It is called a Pachinko machine. The lights run off of 6 or 12 volts (depending on the light bulbs installed). Press the lever on the front down than let it flip up to launch a ball. You will be amused by this mechanical wonder.
Thank you for the comment! It is a pretty cool mechanical system. Do you have any more information on this machine? I'm assuming it would runoff battery power.
@@Differentthings2006 when looking at the back of the machine, I believe the power terminals are on the upper right area. There should be two metal posts sticking out of a plastic block mounted to the back wood surface. The contact posts were not very strong so they may have been broken off, hence the long wire hanging off the back of your machine. I ran mine off of a two amp 12 volt transformer. Ac or Dc is not important as light bulbs do not care. There are no relays, solenoids or circuit boards, only lights and switches. The switches get dirty easily as they have exposed contacts. I think there are two switches, one for minor jackpots and one for major jackpots. A few lights stayed on all the time and some flashed on when you hit a jackpot. When you are issued your winnings you hear a bell ring. The bell sounds as the balls strike it as they come out. Your bell sounds well beaten. If you take the back off you can see the bell. You can rotate the bell so the balls strike a fresh spot and that will give the bell a brighter tone. I once had a Pachinko when I was young and spent many hours taking it apart to see how it worked. I will assist you to the best of my recollections. I put a plastic container under the outlet on the back to catch the balls as the came out, if not they go everywhere. A small magnet on a stick is also helpful for retrieving jammed balls. You also need to keep the balls clean or they will transfer dirt onto the play field which is hard to clean.
@@thisoldminewithlars5324 Thank you so much for the information. I'll have to see if I can find those Terminal posts I'm assuming this was meant to be mounted to a wall or another immovable object? Is there supposed to be retrievement system for the balls that get shot out the back? Or would they just go into some container that would get manually emptied, as you said? Also, how does the bin on the top work? Are those balls put their supposed to feed in automatically?
@@Differentthings2006 The machine was usually mounted between the studs of a wall. A Pachinko Parlor would have dozens of machines lining the walls. Originally this was a gambling system like our slot machines. The wall normally had a retrieval/recycling system built int it. Some places had false walls with attendants on the back side monitoring the machines and restocking the balls. The bin on the top is the balls you get when you win. You will have to manually restock it or build an automatic restocking system. If the top bin goes empty the machine will close off the ball feed so you can not shoot anymore balls into play until the top bin is replenished.
I know a guy that was mowing with sandles. He slipped on the dew on a small hill and as he fell his hands went up lifting the back of the mower and he cut off 3 toes.
That's a very efficient machine. I have mixed feelings about mowing down native plants that are able to thrive in poor soil. I'm inclined to help what wants to grow to develop to maturity, propagate, and create an environment for other native plants. You'd probably dislike having me as a neighbor, but the grassed parts of my home are completely green-covered and self sustaining without watering, fertilization or poisons because I'm willing to tolerate other species living among the grass, and every few years let the other plants thrive.
Yep, that old mower works pretty good. I don't mind letting native species grow. That's why I left the patches that I did, including a lot of grass and weeds on our 2 acre plot. The soil here is very sandy and doesn't grow stuff very well, but the leach field is a different story.
As I mentioned in the video, it is not much of a hazard to wear flip-flops while mowing. Weed whacking is a different story, because stuff gets thrown back at your feet all the time. Ultimately, it is up to the individual to decide for themselves whether or not to wear Close toed shoes.
What about provision for cutting through tall grass and hitting a big rock that is concealed by the long grass? What about like thick weed-wacker string or a steel cable instead of a steel blade to provision for hitting unseen hard object in tall grass? I see some brush mowers at Tractor Supply do that, using a thick weed-wacker-like string instead of a steel blade.
You could do that, but then you can't cut through bushes or any woody material, because the plastic would just break. I've cut this field many times before, and know that there are no rocks on it, but I always make a practice to survey the area that I'm cutting to the best of my ability, to make sure there are no hidden objects. Although some bush hogs have hinging metal blades, so if they hit something hard, they pivot out of the way.
