The 1962 Snapper Comet 30 is a lawnmower that WANTS to maim you 

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Nah man, that is a GREAT mower.

What a neat piece of Americana, I'm gonna get my Murray up and running and then I'm calling you out!

This is explains why the old guys wanted me as a kid to mow. Bike handle bars... lever throttles.. no safety switches. They wanted me for my straight lines so their boss wouldnt find out they'd been drinking since 8am. The thing is running and it looks like fun! It's amazing how serviceable tools can keep working. Enjoyed your off brand video,

Best video you made this year!

I love the reference to George Jones and his illicit drunken mower ride!…..lol😂

She's like " I want more gears damn it!"

I wish I had my old wheel horse lawn tractor. I could put it in granny gear and hop off it go in the house and grab a beer and get back on it. It may have moved 10 feet in that short amount of time.

That is the best mower ever made. Easy to work on. Easy to operate. Dont need to read 100 page manual. No computer buttons to set for gas and transmission. No electric steering.

Having watched you a couple years now i appreciate the wisdom of your folks not letting you mow with it as a child. My 73 Toro Whirlwind 25 is my favorite mower I've ever used, so i understand. The Snapper is only dangerous if you're an idiot.

That mower's safety isn't anything compared to the home-made riding lawnmower my grandfather made. It was made of wood, turned on a dime and had a 8HP horizontal shaft Briggs hanging off the back of it, and a mower deck out front off of some other riding mower from the 60's. It was called the crazy mower, and he built two of them. My cousin has the second one, and it's still operational. People would stop in the middle of the street to see either my dad, uncle or grandfather mowing the lawn with it, and it would throw your ass off and run you over no problem if you didn't know what you're doing with it.

Man this takes me back. Way back before we had them color movie picture boxes.. I remember it like yesterday. Believe was sometime around 1994 to be precise... 😂 My best friend Paul and I went to an estate sale at our neighbors and found a John deere riding mower, believe it was a model 80? Electric riding mower. Ran 36 volts on 3 deep cycle marine batteries. Wooo boy, that was the best $100 we EVER spent.. And also, probably the dumbest idea ever. Y'all know where this is going.... The thing was fun, would run for about two hours on a full charge, but damn was it slow. Being the backyard engineer I always was, got to looking at the drive system a little closer. The three speed gearbox had about a 9 inch pulley, while the motor had about a 1.5 inch pulley. Let's reverse them and see what happens! Hooooly shit was that a wheelie machine, and somehow it'd do damn near 30mph. Next we found a little yard trailer, so one of us could drive and the other could ride in the trailer. McDonald's drive through, here we come!!! The worst trouble we got into was when the city was resurfacing the street, putting in sidewalks and curbs. There was this tiny mud hole, and we decided to do some bogging. Man my parents neighbor was NEXT LEVEL pissed about that! The second worst... We'd toodle up the street in the grass right next to the road.. Well, up ahead was an evergreen tree that was growing right next to a privacy fence, and the branches extended into the easement we used as our road. I'm not gonna let that stop us! So I kept going... That tree ended up scraping me off the mower completely, snagged the steering wheel and turned the mower hard right..... Right THROUGH this 6 foot tall privacy fence and just kept right on going. Surprised I'm not still paying that repair bill off today... 😂😂😂 Best fun of my life. What I'd give to have that mower still today.. Never once did we actually cut any grass with it. Edit: it was the John Deere Electric 90

Wtf did I just watch😂 tom selic cuts the grass

Everybody needs a snapper😎😎😎

Those things run forever

Cool Heirloom!👍

I love this video because it makes your TV show more interesting

Since it's obvious that anything purchased new nowadays won't last 20 years, let alone 60, maybe I'll just keep an eye open for one of these...

Love the old Briggs flatheads.

Pure entertainment

F-ing stoves had grease , hilarious man

As some one who worked on these types of machines, Kohler hard failed on the easy spin thing for a few generations of motors. The lash on the valves would constantly go out of spec and you'd have it spin til it hit that ramp but come to a stop. My father had an old school style shop so doing these and old push mowers was great. There were some push mowers with no operator presence controls either, you'd step one foot on them and pull the cord from the motor straight upwards. You probably don't have much to do with snow blowers down there, it was our winter bread and butter up here in Massachusetts. Checkout something called a lovejoy clutch, also ancient tech. We had some giant snow blowers that could rip your arm out the socket when backfiring, chain saws are also super fun, some of the stuff we worked on for tree companies were the equivalent of a 125 cc dirt bike in the palm of your hand. Power equipment is awesome and especially the antique stuff.

Mower looks like the inspiration to the song “Freddie Four-Toes”.

I think Snappers were really a premium lawnmower back in the day, as I recall. I used to use my grandfather's Snapper back in the 70's and it was built like a tank compared to the no name ones (he worked in a garden shop so I got to play with a bunch).

The problem with those old Snapper riders is the track. It's not wide enough to be stable. In the early 70's my grandparents in Estill Springs Tenn. got a used Snapper. Which i proceeded to roll 2 complete rolls down the steep embankment that was their yard. I landd in the street, upside down, blade spinning furiously & gas pouring everywhere.

If You alter it at all You kill it's Awesomeness. DON'T DO IT Wish I had 1 like it. Great video and a MOST EXCELLENT backstory, it was 14:26 minutes well spent. I have a little Ariens 36"cut single blade riding mower. Wouldn't trade it for a brand new 1 these days. Now get that screaming Mopar to screaming. Lol

Stoves in the 60's DIDN'T HAVE GREASE FITTINGS! They had CRISCO fittings. They weren't savages.

HA! I just finished restoring one of these things! Still uploading vids on it.

PMSFL! pity i can't show a pic, but had one of these not too long ago. put a bigger electric start motor on it, replaced those bars with "ape hanger" style of an old "Dragster" pushbike and mate it was fun! And would wheelstand!

Ive been looming for a good one lime this since i bought my house 7 years ago. I refuse to buy the crap they sell now.

Hey brother! /G\ is there any Masonic lineage involved with said lawnmower? Shriner Parades? Always dug these old Snappers. My family used to go up to this cottage up North and the family that ran it, the grandson had to cut the lawn on the property with one of these and I always thought it was so cool and would bug him and try to get convince to let me drive it

Based bro make the video you want to make

What's with the deer stand?

So it has F-35 capability...nice

Since I voted for it, here's your comment for engagement.

Double ott grease or go to the local greasy spoon.

Literally like no lawn mower manufacturer makes engines or transaxles or hydro drives rhey all sub contract that stuff!🤣

Whatdayamean....you people...

Its a snap with a snapper

Didn't Forrest Gump use one of those?

So, at the time of me writing this comment it shows 366 views. That means that you have hundreds of viewers who are still in the closet about getting high and mowing lawns with no shirt on and eating cheeseburgers. So that is one course of reasoning for why it's the fault of the people who didn't vote, they want it...but descretely.

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