Trailer Helps Take Grass Catcher's Weight Off Riding Mower
I'm retired and enjoy mowing my lawn and three other family lawns with my Deere riding mower. It has a grass catcher on back. When the two bags fill up, they weigh 65 lbs. each, or 170 lbs. I noticed that there would be wheel tracks in the yard for two days after mowing, due in part to the extra weight from the cut grass. I decided to build a little trailer that would help carry part of the load. It worked so well I now use it all of the time on the four yards, which total about 59,000 sq. ft.
I made the trailer out of 1 1/4 by 1/8-in. angle iron, and 1 1/2 by 3/16-in. strap iron. It's fitted with a pair of 8-in. pneumatic caster wheels. It bolts to the back of the tractor and is offset so the wheels run to the side of the tractor wheels. The bags just sit on the trailer. (Leonard A. Anderson, 554 S. Webster St., Minden, Neb. 68959)
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Trailer Helps Take Grass Catcher's Weight Off Riding Mower MOWERS Mowers (31H) 24-3-35 I'm retired and enjoy mowing my lawn and three other family lawns with my Deere riding mower. It has a grass catcher on back. When the two bags fill up, they weigh 65 lbs. each, or 170 lbs. I noticed that there would be wheel tracks in the yard for two days after mowing, due in part to the extra weight from the cut grass. I decided to build a little trailer that would help carry part of the load. It worked so well I now use it all of the time on the four yards, which total about 59,000 sq. ft.
I made the trailer out of 1 1/4 by 1/8-in. angle iron, and 1 1/2 by 3/16-in. strap iron. It's fitted with a pair of 8-in. pneumatic caster wheels. It bolts to the back of the tractor and is offset so the wheels run to the side of the tractor wheels. The bags just sit on the trailer. (Leonard A. Anderson, 554 S. Webster St., Minden, Neb. 68959)
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