DIY trail mower or bush hog for utv or atv. Homemade pull behind brush cutter 

SON the trick was having all the right tools to get'er DONE I.E. PLASMA CUTTER AND WELDER, YES SLIGHTLY JEALOUS- BUT !!! YOU DID A GREAT JOB, loved seeing your son be a part of it !

I just came across your channel. It is so refreshing to see someone think on the fly and just build what he wants in such a practical way while using what is available. The whole setup of welding on your knees on the concrete is admirable instead of some other builds working in a $200k shop! The kids and family popping in and out is great. I hope you can earn some extra cash from RU-vid but keep the no-nonsense, straight forward and honest approach as you go forward. Thank you ever so much. I plan to try some of your ideas in the great white north of Canada this summer.

Dude my hats off to you that was a great build very interesting thanks!

Loved it! just finished building mine. I didn't even bother building a new frame. Works awesome for trails.

awesome work man! This was really cool to watch!

My kind of channel!! I love making my own stuff. Up here in PA, we get a ton of snow so my next build is going to be an ATV mounted snowblower. Keep the videos coming....I need more ideas!!!

My neighbor and I were just talking about building one of these today and now you have made it that much easier. I found a local guy who is selling riding mowers for $50 a piece. Going tomorrow to go pick one up.

That thing is cool. Wish you lived close by so I could borrow it. :) Just bought some land I need to clear and this would be so handy! Nice job, Sir!

Thank you so much for your radios greatly enjoy them please keep sending them we love you in Alabama

Liked your creation really cool .

Great job, great skills!

Yes…what a G!

man , that turned out nice. I like your design. Looks store bought.

Love this. Can't wait to start building one. Thankyou.

That's awesome great job

love it brother!!!

Every mower can be a bush hog, just drag it thru the brush. Some mowers are better at it than others. When I took possesion of my country property it was a bush hoggers dream come true, but, I didnt have a bush hog. I bought a brand new John Deere lawn tractor & went to it hitting rocks & libs & fallen branches & whatnot. I beat the hell out of that blade set. Once I had the property de bushed, I bought a new set of blades. !

I love the intro!

stay tuned for more ATV implement videos coming!!! disc, drag, cultipacker, seeder...

Yup gotta build me one of those. Tired of burying the riding mower in the trails. Needs a kill switch and a belt engage/disengage and some height adjustments but well done sir, well done. 👍

I’m building one now as we speak. I’m glad God has allowed me to watch this video. Just wished I had prints. Currently on a wing and a prayer.

attach that to a riding mower for a 7ft wide cut! that would be amazing. Very cool project. I wish I knew how to weld lol..

Love it. Great job!

I’m in the final 20 per cent of finishing mine. Got the same wheels and very similar frame. I made my wheel swivels just a little to narrow but they’re workable. Still have to mount the fuel tank, battery and connect it w/ the existing electrical harness.

That’s awesome, I’d love to build something similar. My hunting property is mostly swamp have we are always getting the tractor stuck mostly due to the heavy weight. Something like this may allow us to cut the wettest areas and be easier to get it unstuck worse case scenario.

Remember - RE USING is the Ultimate form of Recycling !!! After fighting to keep an old Murray 42 inch deck mower running with parts from many others over the yrs and having a Frankenstein cobbled together deck and pieces all underneath that never wants to align properly or stay right, this is by far the way to go. !!

I've been looking at diy pull behind and most of them look like junk. I just started a lawn care business using older mowers we got for next to nothing and built/repaired to working order. I just picked up a older smaller side by side that we will be rebuilding this winter and we will also be building a pull behind to go with it along with a wide area sprayer. Your pull behind is by far the best one I've seen. I've skipped you video a few times due to just looking at the pic and thinking that's not a diy pull behind.lol will be looking at your other videos for sure.

Looks good.I think I would have cut a bigger opening for discharge of the cuttings

You got some cute enthusiastic students.

Very cool video

Well done!!

I’ve been lookin for a homemade trail mower video for a while now and finally found one that don’t look like garbage. Great build and great video too! Where abouts in Alabama are you located? I live down across the bay from Mobile.

On the next episode of Jack Daddy Customs, how to build a welding table. My knees are to fragile for all that working on the ground stuff. Awesome video though.

Great Idea

Cover or paint the fuel tank so the sun doesn't wreck it from the UV. Looks like it works good.

Awesome!

I’ve been wanting to try to make my own, converting a pto driven finishing mower and mounting a motor on it to be a tow-behind.

Nice job brother, I need you for a neighbor 😂

hello, love the video. That is what i need for the christmas tree farm without spending the money for a new pull behind mower. Question. What size is the frame tubing if I may ask?

Nice job. I'd like a front mount for my ATV. Your music is good. Is that you pickin'? Can't stand the head banging rock or techno noise most folks use.

Is the motor installed so that the blade drive is always engaged or is there a lever you can spring load to engage the blades?

How did you get the blades to turn the correct way with the engine being at the back instead of the front like a tractor

Nice.

How did you bypass not having to use a blade engagement cable? I have an old swisher 44 that I’m trying to get back up and running after nearly a decade of no use. Some parts are pretty rusty and they want an arm and a leg for parts.

What kind of blades did you put on the mower? the stock ones or did you upgrade to something more robust?

Nice... what mower deck did you use looks heavy gauge steel

Am building one of these. Just refurbished a 52” 3 blade Murray deck. But how did you know where to position the motor mounting plate so when the motor and drive pulleys are in, they’re in the same plane as the driven pulleys on the deck?

Loved your video. 👍👍👍👍👍 I subbed but didn’t give a like because I didn’t want to be 666.

Good job man. I can't stand what a throw away society we've become. I try to reuse and repurpose everything.

Dude you are creative, love your builds. Keep it up. Subscribe today.

Seriously thinking about building this. Does it do a lot better than just leaving it on the belly of a ridding mower?

Next project must be a welding bench.

AWESOME JOB! But... unfortunately that type of deck is best used on lower grass as a finish mower not a rough cut like what you are trying to use it for.

What brand of commercial deck is that? Looks like about a 48 to 52 inch.

Need to fabricate a welding table man, your back will thank you later

Every cool looking to build one for 2 in trees

What was the length of top square tubes? 2ft? Building one now.

Good Job, how did you know what size belt you needed or was it the same one for the original lawn mower, :)

How are the swivels on your front wheels working?

What did you do for front swivel bearings?

Looks like you had most of the tools, and were given the mower. But all in all, how much did you invest in this project?

How did u wire it up bc I did same thing but can’t seem to keep it running.

Yup, trail mower, not a bush/brush hog. But it does work how you used it. Maybe sharpen the blades, it wasn't cutting clean.

Looks nice but how do you adjust the deck heights

why pull behind, why not a push front mower?

He who walks with Jesus, walks slow but far and darker then midnight it can't go! My mom tells me that all the time. Lets build something! God bless from Toronto Canada!.

What size tube did you use?

You need a remote mic. can't hear you.

why didnt you just pull the mower

14 thumbs down???? What the hell????

LOL , you worked TOO HARD, but you got all you need, evidently you cut it all the same height, I didn't see any deck adjustment, and NO belt engagement?? I designed a 60" with NO pulleys, NO belts, NO idlers, NO spindles, and ALL that is associated with such, with 3 PREDATOR 5.5 HP (173cc) OHV Vertical Shaft Gas Engines and it IS sweet, my next one I think I will use the Honda engines the same size.