Home-Built Mower Cuts 66-In. Swath
"We've got two to three acres of lawn to cut around the farm and I got tired of spending two days a week on my mower cutting it," says Keith Kuhn, who built a tractor mower out of scrap and equipped it with a 66-in. wide home-built deck.
The Grainfield, Kan., farmer powered the mower with a 4-cyl. engine and 3-speed automatic transmission out of a Toyota Corolla car he bought for $25.
He built a 6-ft. long by 60-in. wide frame out of one of the wings of a junked cultivator. He fitted the rear axle with the wheels off an old Massey Harris combine and the front axle with the Toyota's 13-in. rims.
A farm implement seat mounts on back of the mower. Kuhn made a steering wheel for the rig out of an old hot rod steering wheel he had.
The 66-in. wide deck is built from three 1940's vintage truck hubs welded together and covered with plate steel. It's equipped with an 18-in. front blade and two 24-in. rear blades. They're belt-driven off the motor crankshaft through a right angle gearbox mounted on the deck.
Out-of-pocket expense was about $500. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Keith Kuhn, HC 1, Box 62, Grainfield, Kan. 67737 (ph 785 673-4228).
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Home-Built Mower Cuts 66-In. Swath FARM HOME Lawn Mowers (31h,38) 22-4-30 "We've got two to three acres of lawn to cut around the farm and I got tired of spending two days a week on my mower cutting it," says Keith Kuhn, who built a tractor mower out of scrap and equipped it with a 66-in. wide home-built deck.
The Grainfield, Kan., farmer powered the mower with a 4-cyl. engine and 3-speed automatic transmission out of a Toyota Corolla car he bought for $25.
He built a 6-ft. long by 60-in. wide frame out of one of the wings of a junked cultivator. He fitted the rear axle with the wheels off an old Massey Harris combine and the front axle with the Toyota's 13-in. rims.
A farm implement seat mounts on back of the mower. Kuhn made a steering wheel for the rig out of an old hot rod steering wheel he had.
The 66-in. wide deck is built from three 1940's vintage truck hubs welded together and covered with plate steel. It's equipped with an 18-in. front blade and two 24-in. rear blades. They're belt-driven off the motor crankshaft through a right angle gearbox mounted on the deck.
Out-of-pocket expense was about $500. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Keith Kuhn, HC 1, Box 62, Grainfield, Kan. 67737 (ph 785 673-4228).
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