Fiskarstein Monster full build! 

Please show it running and mowing! Awesome build. What a great talent and skill you have.

Super nice build! Best one so far 👍🍻

Thanks for this Rusty! I am in the middle of my build heavily inspired by your build. My neighbor donated a Ryobi 40v Brushed unit, seems to be a great option. Being a 16" version though I don't get the fancy handle setup like you got. So a little design and 3d printing will be in order. Thanks again man this is a great build!

Brilliant and beautifully executed... a neat finish and no loose wires. Everything is in its place. Wish this could be done as mass production.

Great build.

Looks great Rusty!

Amazing!

If you fine tune this build, make adjustment bolts easily accessible then there're plenty of people willing to pay for a complete conversion kit.

Very creative. If I was you, I would get a patent for this design as quick as I can before somebody else does it. Great job.

I’d pay to have this done to mine. This is brilliant

this is amazing, I would luv to build one like yours

That's a sweet build. And here I was thinking I was being ambitious wanting to put a roller on my fiskars.

Nice engineering

Very nice build!!!

I love this! I wish ryobi or any of the box store battery mower brands like ego, ryobi make one as well. I know ryobi had an 18v line but discontinued in UK only.

Hey rusty. Great build. I did my own and I must say it’s a great learning experience. One observation…your chain tensioner is on the wrong side. It should be after the motor not before it. Since the motor spins and turns the reel by pulling (not pushing) that side of the chain will be under tension by design, while the other side (closest to the front or after the motor) experiences some compression or slack. Especially under acceleration or start up. I made the same mistake with my build and upon startup my chain fell off a few times or after hitting a thick patch until I placed it after the motor and before the reel. Not trying to over explain to someone like you who obviously has the skills for the build but for a new enthusiast who may be getting started like I was several years back and it would have saved me an extra half hour of tinkering in the garage. Thanks for the inspiration.

best Fiskars electric conversion on the tube!! Not sure if I can go so far as to scrap a perfectly working mower to make one though. I'll keep my eye out for a used one.

This is precisely the kind of cordless electric domestic reel mower that the manufacturers should be producing. Instead they only produce greensmowers, large and costly domestic reel mowers and that dirt cheep thing that came out for $200.00 that the manufacturer calls a reel mower but consists of razor blades around a cylinder that need regular replacements as maintenance. I hope you’re planning on producing and marketing these. If you can augment a cartridge system similar to Allette mowers I think that a brush roll that switches out with the reel and dumps the clippings in a bag would be a great feature for suburbanites with driveways and sidewalks.

Done the same - IMO you may have issues with the chain tension. I use a 250W 9.5:1 reduction motor & the torque is INSANE. No tensioner is effective. If there's a big load & some bumps you'll quite possibly jump the small sprocket (done it a bunch). I pack out my motor mount with washers to give the correct tension & no chain tensioner is installed - never skipped a beat now. You could also change the sprockets to larger ones to help avoid this & spread the load over more teeth - if anyone is building the same

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This thing is 4000x better than what the Ryobi engineers came up with. I just know you got somebody fired at Ryobi 😮😂.

Awesome build! I would also like to purchase your kit. Many thanks for the inspiration.

Wow, great build! Best and most professional diy electric reel conversion I've seen. Would buy a kit if you decide to make those. For those of us already heavily invested in the 18 volt line do you think we could use that platform or do you think it needs to be the 40 volt platform to power this properly?

I have a 2% slope so I have to run sometime to get it to cut, I was thinking maybe it should be self propelled and maybe use casters for the front Wheels.

Did the fiskars sprocket mate right up to the ryobi motor? I pulled parts from a kobalt and the bore of the fiskars sprockets is too small. Don’t have a mill or drill press so considering all options

Can't understand why these huge companies can't make a decent consumer grade battery reel mower like this.

Would be nice to see it in action

I would buy a kit also!

This is amazing. Great work. Im gonna try to build one. What color or brand is your paint ?

This is great! I am actually in the process of doing my initial conversion to my Fiskars, however, I’m having a heck of a time getting the rear/large sprocket off. I had zero issues with the small sprocket on the reel, but the large just won’t loosen. Any suggestions? My mower is in great shape, and I’ve seen other posts saying the large sprocket is much tougher to remove than the smaller one, but nothing has worked for me yet. Any advice is much appreciated!

How do you adjust the blade to the bednife now?

Did you have to reverse the motor and if so can tell me what color to what plz thanks. i doing the same building but the motor is spinning wrong way?

I'd buy this kit

With using the front roller without modification, would it stay on the mower? Or was tapping with threads necessary

Any issues or updates after a year of using it? Was very interested in doing something like this with my Earthwise, but someone said I would need to "gear it down or have a variator to regulate max speed"

I still think Rusty has an excellent and viable way to transform the Fiskars to a world-class reel mower, and I just want to buy the side plates minimal. Ha.

Is it water tight to protect the electronics and cleaning?

That thing looks like a Battlebot.. 😁 Grass blades don’t stand a chance.

Tapping a hex head sounds pretty difficult, did you "round out" the hex first with a file or something, or just tap straight from the hex?

Hello , I have used the same motor from the same mower you used but the motor is turning counter clockwise, any idea why ?

Have you had any issues with the abrupt stop when you cut power due to the inertia of the reel? I've almost completed a build using a lot of your ideas and it seems like it may cause an issue after awhile. My small sprocket looks a little worn from my few tests and I'm wondering if it's from that or if it was like that and I didn't notice.

Hello Rusty, watching your video again and I want to confirm this with you. Looking at the gut it seems like you didn't reuse the electronics board from Ryobi, correct? The little silver color box on your video is a voltage regulator?

I have everything lined up and ready to go. It won’t fire up now any ideas?

What spacers do you use between the wheels if you don't mind?

Harbor Freight is $5 a wheel here compared to Amazon which is $21 a wheel.

Wouldn’t change a thing…Rusty. Still working on mine …going on 6 months. You wouldn’t happen to sell the two sides pre cut and drilled would you. And the outer shells too. You can shipped in pieces and I can put it together. Thanks

What is the lowest HOC?

Can you build me one and how much

Would you be interested in selling this or building another one to sell?

This is unreal. Could you build one for me? I’m in Austin, TX.

Nice! You designed/built a bad-a$$ machine.

🤣Why not grab yourself a REAL REEL MOWER ? I have a HUDSON STAR Professional Greens Mower nothing but the best for my lawn 👍🏻