General Lee: Building my Fastest Mower Yet!!! 

This video made me smile

That's a awesome going to town rig you just built 💪 👍

That race mower came out great Chud, I like how it peels out while it’s already moving down the road. I’m an original Dukes fan from the early 80’s! Love the paint scheme! Call it the General!

Love the long videos! Great to sit back, relax, and enjoy the production. Stuff like this helps relight my passion with mowers when I get burnt out.

I restored an old 350 Trike a few years ago... Painted her orange and put the General decals on it. Dubbed it the "General Three" lol was a fast little trike. Love the mower, nice job 🤟🇨🇦

Thanks for actually showing the pulley swap

Slicks are directional because of the crumple zone of the tire when you full throttle the tire bends a bit. The more you know

Not from the south, I’ve never gotten into all the lawnmower racing videos… but this one intrigues me finally. Great walkthrough video. Fun project. But I bet you don’t have much time left for video games. LOL. I can see how this could be a blast with lots of guys doing this to race together. Fun.

Great video sir, thats one farst lawn mower. It would look so funny cutting the grass at full speed.

I love it when they start like that!

That mower is FAST. Nice job on it. I could keep the sand rail as VW engines are plentiful and cheap if you keep looking.

Your General Lee is fast awesome job and THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO

Call it "Secret Agent Orange"! Man I gotta build me a fast mower! Hopefully I'll get to build one this summer. Like how you did the hood blacking out the headlights was brilliant! Just need the horn now! LOL 😂

here for the girl

nice

Nice work! I have a 21hp craftsman with a bad deck but the motor is fine... getting ideas! Thanks for the video and good luck with your next project!

I'm going to get my first mower for racing in a few days! This is very neat!

Thanks for the shout out!

Btw to lower the rear flip the transaxle brackets upside down and mount the transaxle upside down it really lowers it

Great vid chud. Love how the build was mostly junkyard parts and new old stock.

I'm glad you posted this video I've been swapping my hydro trans to a 6speed and doing a pulley swap and couldn't figure out how or where to me over the clutch. Thanks for unintentionally telling me where to put the clutch lol. Now I have to figure out how I'm getting the trans linkage hooked up. 😂👍🏻

Awesome job! I've always wanted to build a fast mower. There is a dead one in my woods that just needs an engine. Someday...

chud man get yourself one of those harbor freight mini tire changers once youfigure out how to use it it makes changing mower tires super easy and a lot faster and less frostration i bought one and havent regretted it not one bit after i learned how to use it

I like that you did good job

Awesome stuff, thanks

General cut would be a cool name.

General Lee is perfect for the race mower

Often, a drag slick doesnt really matter direction until they're used and they get traction for the first time. Im guessing the tires had direction arrows so that the end user simply didnt forget which way they had them rotating once installed.

I'd call the it the "Little Lee". Awesome content!! New Sub!

Wholesome content thanks friend

Nice budget work as always.

I can't wait to watch it

I love those murry seats tuff as could be

Good job 👍

I'm sure the yellow VW is called a Sand Rail. Dune Buggy is a fibreglass bucket car.

keep that dune buggy, she's a beauty.

Use di this as teenagers had one that did 60+ but the stock steering u cant keep it in one lane but when used to race use to drill pully and tape a scrub screw for added strength so the key way had les stress on it built some even did on that had rear steer made a 4x4 we to were mount to rear to a plate attached to the bolt on axel turned the input on angle like if ure gonna run drive shaft to it made links to attached to were the plate we bolted to original bolt run-through rear and then weld a plate like so we could mount axel with chain and took u joint and made shaft to run to front back and took the motor mounted the shaft faced towards seat under hood and cut slot in chassis down to the sprocket we mounted on bottom never got it fully done with having all the front and rear gears connected to a central point it would of been selected 4x4 with six gears front and back since we use a rear stear mower trans we i was gonna make it independent gears selected for if i wanted to run frunt fast in crawling atleast it was moving were just pre selected the gear and left the clutch on motor do its job it was over size chain clutch for go kart but the 4x4 concept 4 link can be done with mower part some enginuity love to tey to do it again but now 20plus years later built some crazy machine out of mowers and quads little gokart and some dirt bike parts own many bike and quad as kid more then i ever could even count done so many this anything we could use from parts we have lying around we use have my weekend parts just sitting at garage as teens and 20s just build things fun day's

Id love to see one of the older s10s like yours with the 4.2 liter straight six vortech engine. I love the v8 swaps but after having a 4.2 straight 6 i can tell you they are strong

Painting while it's raining, ain't bad as all to me. I've done it plenty of times.. I've seen that I get less trash in the paint. Probably because the rain is keeping down the dust and the little flying bugs.

Loved the video I need to make a fast mower now

Awesome!

I love that mower, I think the name General Lee suits it. I think you should put the dune buggy on the back burner & do the S10 first.

You know parts John Deere with the really good v-twin motor you should use it when you get a mower with no engine

Im just asking because i really don't know. So don't take offense. Will YT demonetize your video if you put the Southern flag on it? Thank you.

Awesome video! That is definitely a fast mower. Nice clutch set up. Would be really nice to have a throttle pedal on the general lee..Im working on the white blue tractor too. Will be dropping the video when i get back into town from my grandmas in Tennessee. The v twin is in and im working on the clutch set up. Had to come up with something weird!

Buggy is cool, keep that-n

Cool flip flops

My first was a 1970s Wheelhorse rider with an Arctic Cat 700 liquid cooled. I don't know how I survived but Vermont was a lawless land in the 90s.

Hello All'!. Are you at the other end of the road from "Hamiltonville farm. ? 😆

Without any prior knowledge, and without googling it, I'm guessing the slicks are directional because of the way the belts are inside of it. If it has belts?

I seen someone put a pully so big on there mower the sides of the frame were the belts guard... you have to take pully off to change belt

TIRE WHEEL NUMBER 2 IS OFF THE REAR

That looks like a sand racer.

I been on building Trail Tractors like a Chud in da Mud, round 35yrs now.. Elon needs you at Space x yesterday lol. I've acquired Many, Many smooth mods from You buddy🙂.. Here is you one back. ( Slot engine bolt wholes on frame . Lol makes belt options a lot more friendly.) I'll subscribe

Wow that buggy looks nice hope you get that going soon do you like it

S10! S10! Yes finish the s10 please...

One trick I used on my craftman was flipped my front axel up side down and lowered my axel mounts to the lower hole dropped it 7 up front mega rake like my photo

Warning: Use extreme caution if you see this guy coming in his mower 😉

Cat attack at 0:33

Give a helmet on,, Into more food there's something when you're racing down the road on that, Mower whatever you wanna call that thing with Holland ass, I love the video you do good work all the way around, I showed mom and dad, Would miss , Stacey, Draw a picture of my dad ,s, Race car if we sent to a pic of it,$$$$$, Of course we would compensate , Miss Stacy for her work.. Love the video God bless all you

hell yeah

I vote fast orange!!!

Would be fun with detachable blades :)

That thing is sweet! Will it wheelie?

The dune buggy looks like a custom military dune buggy, just missing the gunner's post

Love the Channel! how do you keep the lawn mower steering stable at that speed?

Even tho it's not A Johnder you can call it the John deer Lee

Chud327 I can see where you get the gray hair. So Pump or side by side to keep the young men away? oh and YES nice work on the mower. 😃 uhm now that I see the Dune Buggy I say you should flip it, make it worth flipping.

Hey Chud I love the builds man. I noticed at 16:35 that you also own a Monster Rock 'n' Roller 2. How do you like yours? Have you had to replace the battery yet? 😄 Thanks for sharing the fun!

Hey chud I’m a big big big true fan can you post more about OG polulan I really like the poulan

My first ever mud mower was a ariens

The thumbnail got me to take a peek but I don't see her anywhere so see you later

Great tempo on the video!

Do slicks like these have any kind of steel in them? If so maybe the way its "woven" in the tire has to do with why its directional. Just an uneducated guess.

gret mower id love to see youguys lower this

I have a cub cadet with a hydro and saw your video on hydro mowers not able to go fast. But then I also saw a video of a guy making a hydro mower go fast. I’m just wondering if I’ll blow my transmission on this one or should I manual swap it?

My favorite motor for S-10's are 327's probably spendy motors tho.

im building a smaller version of a lawnmower tractor for my 7 year old boy. i bought a used push mower for the engine, im thinking it might not have enough HP. so my question is. do they make performance parts for the smaller engines like 150cc with a vertical shaft? also, thank u for your time making these videos, i know the time it must take in editing.

@chud327 - Really enjoying your mower build videos! Are there any complications with pulley swapping a mower with a variable speed pulley? I'm referring to leaving the VSP in place (in use) but pulley swapping the engine pulley and transaxle pulley. Is it bad to leave the VSP in place? Will it burn up quickly? Have you done a build leaving the VSP in use? Thanks!

Awesome build……is the radio flyer for sale? Vrooom vrooom

this is very cool a but quick question since youve built several mowers what is the biggest tires you have put on a mower with a transmission like the general lee mower

If you don't mine me asking how much did you sell the green s10 for and a motorcycle license plate might fit over there

When you do builds like these, do you connect the backfire prevention solonoid on the carburetor?? Personally I do, I definitely don't want fuel destroying my engine. My racing mower, I've been wanting to get it done. All it really needs is electrical and everything checked over to make sure it's tight lubricated and greased, but it's scary fast. It sets maybe 2-Inches or so off the ground. I was told it was banned from tracks for being too fast.

After receiving my new John Deere 4066r for mowing and other tasks around my property, I'm wanting to turn my John Deere x758 with a diesel and 4wd into a mud/trail riding tractor. @Chud327, what do you think about turning a 4wd diesel John Deere x758 into a mud mower? BTW that's a fast tractor/mower. I would recommend calling it General Chud.

Love this one! I cant seem to find an answer anywhere else so i figured i would ask here. Im not good at pulley swapping and dont have a HUGE budget to make a mud mower/fast mower, is it possible to just swap the front and rear pulleys to make it faster? I heard somewhere else that would work but thought I would ask someone like you. Thanks in advance and once again love the new mower!

I got 47mph with a Tecumseh 2 stroke and 15 in rims off an s 10...Circa 1996

When you do the pulley upgrade, do you remove the govenor?

Me too

Is there anything that can be done to the engine and drive train when stripping the hole thing down?

Can you post the link for Craftman Dan channel in Michigan. Thanks😊

Got to have parts tractors

👍👍

Any videos on the old skool red mower at the end?

Slicks generally have tried, but very little. That's why it says it's directional

What’s the speedometer app you use called?

You could call it "General Free" because it cost you almost nothing to build.

Call it orange peel

You should build a turbo diesel mower

General Lee! Cute Girl.

Suggestion, foot peddle