Zero-Turn Mower Powers Big Reel Parade Rig

Zero-Turn Mower Powers Big Reel Parade Rig FARM HOME Lawn Mowers 31h 38 Retired Kentucky farmer and inventor Robert Thomas says the self-propelled “Big Reel Wheel” he built and drives in local parades really turns heads “The Reel Wheel spins around rolls back and forth and turns on a dime ” says Thomas “When I’m driving I swing back and forth looking up when I’m going forward and looking down a little when I back up ” Thomas’s Reel Wheel gets its power from an old 30-in Dixon zero-turn mower with an 8 hp Briggs engine He’s owned that mower since the early 1970’s and says it still runs great The mower tires ride on a circular steel band that Thomas attached to the inside of two 8-ft dia ppipe wheels made from spools that held wire for a power company Thomas says the 8 metal spokes inside each big wheel and a sturdy metal cross frame that he added between them provide ample support for his Reel Wheel “The whole idea behind this is to have fun and make people smile ” Thomas says “and I get to do that everywhere I go ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Robert Thomas 122 Sykes Blvd Morganfield Ky 42437 ph 270 997-4035 or 270 952-1048

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