a friend found this DR powerwagon at an estate sale for $50, then contacted me, its in real sad shape, looks like it crashed down a hill at some point then parked outside. lets see if we can fix it back up.
I'm sure your wife will be happy with it. Plastic welding fun fun use a stained glass soldering iron next time and some zip ties as the filler. It works great. 👍🏻
I'd replace that snap ring on the top of the clutch if I was you Mustie. It is obviously malfuntioning as it didn't perform a trans-dimensional warp jump when it flew off.
Great little wagon, I have the exact same one we use it on a tree service hauling logs out of residential backyards I swear the thing has no limit. It also comes with a seat that you can hook up to the little hitch and pull yourself around with it as well. Definitely the lazy man wagon LOL cool find love the vids
Just what I was thinking Mike S. Like you see on those Chinese Tiller tractor things. Apparently DR call it a sulky and from looking at some images it's something Mustie could knock up in an hour or three. As always an interesting project Mustie.
Great drop Mustie1...my pop's had one of these..they are great machine's...I would like to ask the Mustie1 nation to keep Brent at HALF-ASS KUSTOMS in their prayer's...he lost his entire shop to fire last week!!! He has 20+ years of badass hot rod build's from this shop...🙏🙏🙏😜✔️👀👍😎⭐💯
Nice job bringing it back Mustie! I'm sure your wife will enjoy it. Fyi, a trick that can use is plastic zip ties can be melted to patch holes...an old electric glue gun can work... Also, you can consider using some aluminum welding rod..and a piece of aluminum patch. You'd just have to disassemble the transmission and clean the part...but it could maybe help. Mapp gas on a propane torch head. Hope these ideas help. Good luck, sir!
Darren, if you cut strips from sn oil bottle, you can melt that into the holes on the tank with a soldering iron or soldering gun. Its the same plastic (HDPE). I recently did this on a generator gas tank that got a saw cut when, apparently, they used it for a saw horse.
Yeah. Completing them is the bit I get stuck on 😂 Current one is braking system on a car trailer. I hope to complete that soon though, because me will likely need to move some cars in the coming 6 months or so.
That carb is a fascinating exercise in cost cutting. Plastic bowl/float/seat and the body looks like a simple extrusion with cross drilled passages vs a complex cast part.
Plastic bowls also cut down on carb corrosion/clogs. The modern push mowers that say "mow n stow" on them have all plastic body carbs, and they don't clog until dirty fuel goes through them...and when that happens, they are easy/fast to clean as you only need to blow out the jets.
a good perk to a plastic carb is that they don't corrode (they tend to get less plugged up). I'm still not sure i prefer them per say, but it's a definite silver lining.
A little piece of metal screen melted in to plastic helps sometimes too especially with HDPE plastic. Helps the bond and acts as reinforcement. The screen melts right in when you heat it with the iron then ya just add a bit on top and smooth it out....Anyway, great vid as usual Mustie! Always good to hang out and watch over your shoulder...forever learning!😉💥💢💥👌👍👊💪🤙
Actually I did that to a lawn mower several years ago and I just drilled tapped 6 10/32 holes around the hole and made a rubber Gasket and screwed a piece of steel plate over it and it never leaked again. You don't wanna make the patch too Big. Just big enough to cover the whole.
This is the first time I’d ever seen a gas powered Wheelbarrow, I thought it was a wonky object, until I saw you hauling logs! Then I saw the practicality!
Unusual and great machine built for a specific purpose. I'm glad you brought it back to life and didn't have to invest much into it at all! Watching you work is a thrill and I'm grateful for you sharing these videos with the world. Thank you Mustie1 and I hope your wife enjoys her new powered wheelbarrow!
These things are amazing! I had a newer version with hydraulic dump. Paid $500 for it and used it for three years and then sold it for $800 during covid.
One accessory that you don't have, but would be nice - That machine can tow a ride on seat. It already has a tongue hitch, all you need is a trailed unit with a seat on it, or even just a low platform so the operator can stand on it. Either way, it would make those higher gears more worthwhile. I have a similar setup at home, and really can save your legs as you get older. 👍
You are absolutely correct. I think he needed to be just a little bit hotter. The electric soldering iron with a small spade attachment that would work well. I don’t know very much, but I have seen others do it quite effectively.
@@reubencohen7097 yes the plastic weld as such usually looks like a mig weld and very neat. The added advantage is that you can use different coloured zip ties to match whatever you are polythene welding.
Hey Mustie, that center hole over the back tire could be used to bolt or weld a pin in and you could build a hitching foot dolly for your wife to stand on while saving her the steps. I'm thinking something similar to a stand behind mower.
Awesome fix.. always amazed how you find solutions and fixes to whatever you come across.. always learning by watching.. appreciate you sharing your day with us 😊🔧🇺🇸🛠️👍
I was convinced your crude spring for that clutch was not going to work. But then you cranked it up and it worked perfectly first try. YOU are the man. You are the Mustie1.
I was just waiting for Darren to do his usual victory lap through the sand pit with the cart at the end of the video which would have been something. Being from Danvers I noted the Danvers Ford tee shirt. This was a nice video with not too many problems to shift through. Once again Darren's dialog as he works makes his videos so superior and enjoyable to others. Sunday morning's with Mustie1 has to be a must for all his followers.
I am not looking around for similar channels for that very reason. Darren's dialog, style and approach is superior and he gets right to it and doesn't feel the need to do the talking head routine (his face in front of the camera) like so many others. Other channels are often just intolerable with music and an intro scheme, etc., etc.
@@Hjerte_Verke Boy.....you and I are on the same page here. I'm a retired industrial mechanic and while every day I worked on more problems that I could count I don't think I could ever explain to someone every move I was doing. Darren has a special gift in captivating an audience. I gave him a Homelite generator and power washer a year or so ago and I even watched with great interest to those. His is the only repair site that I've watched but on the few sites that I do on other subjects the dead air sometimes can drive you nuts.
I'm watching this very closely. Never fixed anything in my life. My dad passed 3 years ago and I now moved in with my mom to help her. This garden wagon has been on eof the best helpers hauling in wood for the wood stove and me trying to get my moms yard "dejungled". Went it to get fixed last year at some local place. They had it for 3 months. They also "fixed the big ride on mower TWICE last summer. We had use of it for maybe 2 weeks. I finally went out and bout a propelled push mower to mow 3 acres!! It ran ok a couple of timers. Now barely idles. And dies once you put it into gear. I have to spray fluid in the side hole just to start it each time. We wasted $597for "fixing it". But I love it so I'm determined to get it running right again. I have too many memories with my dad and this power wagon.
I bought that machine over 20+ years ago with electric start. I use it mostly for hauling large log rounds out of my woods. I ended up building a removable boom with a small Harbor Freight 12 v winch on it so I can load the logs easily, or snake a log out of the brush using a snatch-block setup. It works great and saves my back every day. I put tall stake sides on the box so I can stack several rows, depending on the log sizes. Of course, I have to be careful that I don't make it too top heavy so it doesn't tip over, but all in all, when used right it gets the job done every time. It's used for everything around the property.
That was an impressive nest, you do get some weird but wonderful contraptions. I guess if there is a need for something like that some one would build it.
On fuel tanks I preheat the plastic (hole) with a heat gun then you "can" use a cheapy plastic welder (glorified soldering iron) or a rework station, to melt the material around the hole and little by little add the appropriate filler rods (multiple types of plastic rods in a kit via Amazon) until there's more than enough material to reheat & "mush" it in, as you said, then start removing the excess with the plastic welder until it matches the surface level. That way the bulk of material is inside the tank and reenforces the corner or any part of the tank that was damaged. By taking the time to preheat & with the abundance of new material properly melted in with to old, it renews the old & improves flexibility while maintaining rigidity. I also pressure test the tanks using rubber/flexible abs end caps with a hose clamp & just a dab of rtv to ensure a good seal. A valve stem on a hose on the fuel outlet & about 10lbs air or a hand vacuum pump will also work for negative pressure testing but you won't be able to check where, if any, other leaks are. The only drawback to cheapy plastic welders is different materials require slightly different temperatures. That's where, if like me, you do a lot of tank repair, a rework station, mini heat gun with various tips & variable heat settings is the better tool.
You should add a skid plate to it to make sure it doesn’t bottom out. I am sure that’s how the initial hole developed in the first place. Love the videos!!
What a great job bringing this back, I was especially impressed with the clutch spring. It will make a great gardening tool, especially with the flower bin!
If you take a small hot glue gun and insert zip ties instead of the glue sticks it melts nicely to weld plastics especially if you heat the area that needs fixing. Thought it may be helpful. I enjoy your vids! 👍
Mustie1, Good find and great work (as usual) getting it running, clutch fixed, holes filled and expecially the axle straightened! Paint it whatever color the wife wants and you have a free “get out of doghouse” card for awhile!
I used to repair 1980,s vauxhall plastic radiator shrouds the same way as the petrol tank nice to see its still a way of repair things and not throwing things away cheers mustie for another great one
Great for a building site with poor access to the rear of a property. You could carry cement bags in it for example. You could also modify it by putting a small platform on wheels by the handle bar making it proper transport 😊
This reminds me of the grown-up version of the tricycle with a dump bed on it I had when I was young. I could always convince my little sister that I wouldn't dump her out but I was a mischievous little rascal and would dump her out again. She was a slow learner.
You always find the coolest stuff ! I’ve never even seen one of those . I’m familiar with power ride on carts . I’m in construction and sometimes the concrete contractors use them for floor pours . Pretty cool machine . Thanks Mustie !
Thanks for the great video of the DR Wagon. My neighbor has had one for years with the electric start. Also, he has a sulky that attaches by the pivot wheel. He uses it around fence line and general yard work. He loves it... An old Gravely sulky would work as well.
That is a very cool piece! I didn’t think you were gonna get away with straightening the axle without snapping the case. Another great rebuild man. We all appreciate your videos. I was given a 25 year old snapper rider that I’m just getting into. Carb rebuild done, now it runs. I just have to sort out the rear differential.
Another unique machine brought back to life. Bending that axle was classic Musti1, how you did it and the results. Love starting Sunday morning with Musti1 and a cup of coffee. You bring us much joy, hope your headaches are better/gone.
Really nice vehicle. Lol your wife saying that you get all the good stuff. Darren this would be perfect for your wife for her garden chores. Nice way to haul topsoil and manure. Have lots of fun watching you get things back in good condition.
