trike savior
03-07-2013, 07:57 PM
Here are some pics of a really cool riding mower i thought you all might like.
was my old man's he bought it in early 70's. we had a split level house and one day while mowing he lost control of it and rode it off the upper lawn, over the retaining wall and landed on the front stairs. it completely busted one rear wheel and broke most of the other. he pulled it in the garage and parked it thinking he'd fix it someday. years went by and it became a table with more and more piled on it.
few years ago we were cleaning garage and i decided to pull it out because i had never seen it before. i knew what it was but never actually saw with everything off it. once i got it out i knew i had to fix it. i told him i was pulling the wheels to fix and he laughed at me. one just had broke the spokes from the rim but the other had bent spokes completely separated from rim and hub. i pulled out the torch and welder, heated, bent and welded the wheels. i was quite pleased with myself because they ended up very true, very little wobble.
put it together and got it running and it is great. my father has mowed the lawn with it a few times and every time just a big old grin. (takes alot to make that man smile too)
A little about how it works:
my favorite thing about this thing is the drive mechanism. ITS SO SIMPLE. check out the pics. you have a horizontal pulley driven by the motor. the pulley is moved side to side by the shifter. the vertical pulley has a rubber piece on it making it essentially a wheel and tire and it drives the shaft that goes to a chain case that drives the wheels. For NEUTRAL it simply sits on the bolt in center of horizontal pulley. For FOWARD you get one side of the pulley and for REVERSE you get the otherside. the farther outward on the pulley you are the faster it goes. GENIUS
It does have brakes/ clutch. by pressing the pedal it drops the engine driven pulley away from the vertical wheel. and a little metal bar comes over against the vertical wheel to keep machine from moving. It actually works on a steep hill
last cool thing is the front handlebars. if you push them down, it actually raises the front of the machine. for going over stumps and into potholes in the yard so you dont scalp the grass.
well, hope you all enjoy this as much as i do
was my old man's he bought it in early 70's. we had a split level house and one day while mowing he lost control of it and rode it off the upper lawn, over the retaining wall and landed on the front stairs. it completely busted one rear wheel and broke most of the other. he pulled it in the garage and parked it thinking he'd fix it someday. years went by and it became a table with more and more piled on it.
few years ago we were cleaning garage and i decided to pull it out because i had never seen it before. i knew what it was but never actually saw with everything off it. once i got it out i knew i had to fix it. i told him i was pulling the wheels to fix and he laughed at me. one just had broke the spokes from the rim but the other had bent spokes completely separated from rim and hub. i pulled out the torch and welder, heated, bent and welded the wheels. i was quite pleased with myself because they ended up very true, very little wobble.
put it together and got it running and it is great. my father has mowed the lawn with it a few times and every time just a big old grin. (takes alot to make that man smile too)
A little about how it works:
my favorite thing about this thing is the drive mechanism. ITS SO SIMPLE. check out the pics. you have a horizontal pulley driven by the motor. the pulley is moved side to side by the shifter. the vertical pulley has a rubber piece on it making it essentially a wheel and tire and it drives the shaft that goes to a chain case that drives the wheels. For NEUTRAL it simply sits on the bolt in center of horizontal pulley. For FOWARD you get one side of the pulley and for REVERSE you get the otherside. the farther outward on the pulley you are the faster it goes. GENIUS
It does have brakes/ clutch. by pressing the pedal it drops the engine driven pulley away from the vertical wheel. and a little metal bar comes over against the vertical wheel to keep machine from moving. It actually works on a steep hill
last cool thing is the front handlebars. if you push them down, it actually raises the front of the machine. for going over stumps and into potholes in the yard so you dont scalp the grass.
well, hope you all enjoy this as much as i do