Building a Brush Mower

In this video we resurrect a trash lawn mower and convert it into a lean mean brush cutting machine. No not really but the build is easy and was very efficient at what I needed it to do. 10:10 would pull from trash and hack up again.
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[@godspeedglen]

Your commentary is pure gold...I’m inspired.

[@fatherofsixwackykids2074]

I love your wording!!! Save the children lol.

[@yardcotulsa]

Man...the commentary is AWESOME! Thanks for making my day!!!

[@justinchard7303]

Your killen me!! I was dieing laughing. Thank you so much for the great video and laugh. Time to go build one now. :)

[@jonnk.customsfabrication2194]

A business card is the gap. That's what I do on these small bang-bang motors.

[@acme663ryo]

Great tip.

[@adelaideautowashes]

"....and suck up brush, small animals, children and whatnot." That part made me laugh so hard.

[@lennonvihaan6148]

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[@lylebrendan1218]

@Lennon Vihaan Yup, I have been using instaflixxer for since december myself :D

[@jjm373]

My dad always told to put a business card between the coil and flywheel to space it always worked well on every small engine I ever done

[@acme663ryo]

Sounds like about the perfect distance.

[@Moonlightshadow-lq4fr]

That is amazing! I am going to attempt to do the same thing now with my lawnmower, mine is made of plastic though so I have to work out where to put bolts for a bracket for the wheels. Anyways cheers for putting this up and demonstrating how good it is.

[@captainjoesanglingadventur4894]

I absolutely love your commentary man.... Don't want to lose the experience of the oils life.....lol

[@widdledd5948]

“Alittle precision adjusting” 😂🔨🔨🔨👌🏼

[@BacktotheBasics101]

Your dry sense of humor fits right into the western side of North Dakota. Your video inspired me to make one of these. Been thinking about making one for a long time, but I think it’s on the list to do very soon. Happy trails

[@BAK87]

Low budget, high efficiency diy. Well done mate.

[@tpearl209]

All you need in a business card to gap lawnmower coils to the fly wheels.

[@bikeroftheeverywheres864]

Death mowers are the best mowers. It's a great big finger to osha. And I love that.

[@XRinger]

It might also give a finger (or two) in another way. ;) Hope it's de-bladed of before Mr. Nelson gives up ownership.

[@ImprintImpressionzRC]

I died laughing. Awesome tutorial video and funnier than hell. "need a little precision adjusting" bam bam bam bam "oh that is perfection." so awesome

[@acme663ryo]

Gad you like it. Beast still runs but is on its second trash-picked engine. It isn't a true brush mower so hitting stumps or something is hell on the blades.

[@feargach2107]

Great job and with the subtitles on it's so easy to follow. Now I just have to get spousal approval to cut the front of the lawn mower.

[@oby-1607]

Loved the demonstration. I gotta do this to mine.

[@markhalley1140]

PBS documentary stuff here. You should be a shop teacher in Anytown, USA junior high school. I’ve got an old hangar queen mower and this is number two on my winter project list.

[@cambobby2011]

8:32... '' precision adjusting''... That's my way too for precision DIY... LOL

[@timenavigator9643]

“And I don’t want to lose that experience!” 😂

[@thatdogtrainingshow4486]

I can't stop laughing over the "technical terms" with snark.

[@mrclucker1969]

You wouldn't notice the changes unless you pointed them - looked factory standard for sure!! Maybe flail chains would work quite well?

[@acme663ryo]

Thrash your way through? Huh, maybe I will try that when the blade breaks off.

[@daleval2182]

It won't touch, it prob will touch, confidence abounds

[@junkmaster0174]

Dude, love the humor!

[@Buck1954]

easy cheap. If it blows up, no loss. Good idea.

[@acme663ryo]

You bet. I spent more time messing with the motor and patching holes than building. It has done a bunch or work since this video and is still going.

[@gammon1183]

Snake Plissken fixing mowers 😎

[@oldtimeengineer26]

probably broke every OSHA rule I love it. Looks like it does the job

[@acme663ryo]

Munch and crunch. Hell just that it starts now I call a win.

[@dictumfactum9468]

You are welcome to my garage anytime.

[@bikerdave1274]

Nice KillMoTron 😎

[@edmondpecotjr.8888]

dude the problems right there... there's no beer...

[@oneyaker]

Make a heavier blade from spring steel or add a metal disk to increase rotational inertia and it will chop 1/2" sticks no problem.

[@timenavigator9643]

oneyaker It will lack the power necessary to spin a piece of metal that heavy with Sufficient RPMs to do jack shit

[@bigtorrisi]

The Outback Billygoat brush cutter is $5000, I'd only pay you $4000 for yours, 'cause it just isn't shiny enough. Sorry, no offense.

[@tube289]

Put a new carb on it or rebuild or clean carb. Never store with ethanol gas in it over a moth or two.

[@MrLmm001]

To make it better, and you can do this on any push mower, is to go DOWN 2 INCHES on your blade size. You have a 21 inch mower, go down to a 18 inch blade, (I'm not aware of a 19 in blade). I have a 22 inch mower, I put on a 20 inch blade which gives MORE SPACE ON THE SIDES AND BACK underneath the deck. I have used a 18 inch blade on a 22 inch mower for knee high grass. All WITHOUT CUTTING OUT THE FRONT OF THE DECK. It is not a brush cutter, but it WILL POWER THRU TALL GRASS.

[@acme663ryo]

But I built it TO cut the brush, something it does surprisingly well but I have no idea how long it will hold up.

[@MrLmm001]

The same principal still applies on the under size blade which would work with your "brush cutter" set up.

[@acme663ryo]

Not if you can't push it through the brush. Because the brush would have to be bent over to the bottom level of the deck itself it would not be possible to cut anything of size or density. This allows the mower to bend over the brush and nip it off at the bottom.

[@MrLmm001]

READ AGAIN. I said YOUR brush cutter. I also said that my setup IS NOT A BRUSH CUTTER. I said that your set up would benefit with a under size blade, just like my set up benefits with using a under size blade for VERY TALL GRASS. I cut grass for a living. If I need a brush cutter, I have a real brush cutter, I don't need a cheap contraption, like yours. READ AGAIN.

[@acme663ryo]

No. First you were trying to apply your setup to mine. Second the smaller blade would force the machine to push into the brush farther before the cutting happens. Thus forcing the brush to lay down further, that increases the angle (making the stems effectively thicker) and results in a slower blade tip speed (same rpm on smaller blade, less distance to travel slower speed around). I am actually surprised your setup works as well as you describe due to slower tip speed but I suppose a shorter blade means less leverage at the tip thus more horsepower at the cutting edge. I get that you are passionately invested in your idea but capslock will not make it true.

[@MrRadioGypsy]

99.99999% of the time, start/run failures are due to old gas and a carburetor that has been varnished/plugged with old gas/debris. Best to drain out all gas before storing it for winter . . .

[@Rayovoc]

Frankenmower.

[@acme663ryo]

It's alive!

[@widdledd5948]

Lol your a Funny suhgun

[@loneninja]

Thumbs up at Death Hole comment.

[@roberttomerjr.4731]

Hilarious!

[@MisterJennison]

It was horses that they had down on the river if I remember correctly...

[@MisterJennison]

Maybe a mule or two...

[@acme663ryo]

Mules, that would do it.

[@independentthinker8930]

10 thou

[@danyf3116]

I think you went one thousand over in your precision adjustment. Wrong ball peen hammer. Just sayin'.

[@skullheadwater9839]

Dinosaur juice? You do know that's an old wives tale/myth. Crude oil/Petroleum comes from marine plants, algae, plankton and bacteria. The more you know.....cuz knowledge is power.

[@acme663ryo]

True but dino juice sounds cooler than carboniferous period don't you think?

[@robvan1265]

Dang can anyone just get to the point, 2 minutes is even too long for this

[@acme663ryo]

Your refund is in the mail.

[@MrOldfart47]

"He's a maniac"!

[@acme663ryo]

You mean mowniac right?

[@MrOldfart47]

True!