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Here she is - came with the house. Steering is pretty loose, front wheel "bearings" are loose... deck and blades are pretty worn.
Carb could use a cleaning, I'm sure it's past due for an oil change, and it's definitely in need of a battery... attempting to charge it recently resulted in heat, and really foul smelling steam errupting from the battery case vents.
Assuming I spend the time to get it running again - it should move under it's own power as it did when I parked it - but mowing with it really isn't an appealing option.
Thoughts I've had so far have included the following - please give me some more ideas.... least appealing but easiest
of which would be to scrap it!
First off I'd say remove mower deck and put it in the scrap pile...then what?
build brackets to install this free snow blade and plow with it?
likely not a great option with only 11hp and my fat self riding on it - won't leave much pushing power for moving snow
Remove the engine and use it to power a home built beastly pressure washer (already have one but it's weakish)
(requires buying a pump, valve, hoses, etc)
Remove engine and use it to power a home built log splitter?
(I have some steel, some wheels and tires, but would need to buy pump, engine coupling, tank, hoses, control valve and cylinder, wedge, plus design it all to work together.)
what say you?
Here she is - came with the house. Steering is pretty loose, front wheel "bearings" are loose... deck and blades are pretty worn.
Carb could use a cleaning, I'm sure it's past due for an oil change, and it's definitely in need of a battery... attempting to charge it recently resulted in heat, and really foul smelling steam errupting from the battery case vents.
Assuming I spend the time to get it running again - it should move under it's own power as it did when I parked it - but mowing with it really isn't an appealing option.
Thoughts I've had so far have included the following - please give me some more ideas.... least appealing but easiest
of which would be to scrap it!
First off I'd say remove mower deck and put it in the scrap pile...then what?
build brackets to install this free snow blade and plow with it?
likely not a great option with only 11hp and my fat self riding on it - won't leave much pushing power for moving snow
Remove the engine and use it to power a home built beastly pressure washer (already have one but it's weakish)
(requires buying a pump, valve, hoses, etc)
Remove engine and use it to power a home built log splitter?
(I have some steel, some wheels and tires, but would need to buy pump, engine coupling, tank, hoses, control valve and cylinder, wedge, plus design it all to work together.)
what say you?
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