Push mower mods
 

Mowing faster saves time and gasoline. My used 6hp briggs and stratton flat head mower has plenty of power but it's discharge chute clogs up with tall grass and weeds too easy then the mower boggs down. That means slow down and allow the chute to clear.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Before plasma cutter:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1629930911
After plasma cutter:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1629930911
If you have other people near by, it's probably not a good idea to make the discharge chute bigger.

Time for an upgrade to the wheels?

Nice work

I just bungee the flap up during “wet/long” grass and it blows grass everywhere and doesn’t clog as easily

My fathers antique 18hp Wheelhorse rider was actually bogging and clogging during the recent rainy season, lifted the flap but it still managed to bog down but no more clogs.

Well I took it out and ran it hard, by pulling it behind the riding mower, it blasts chopped weeds and grass out the side hard and far with no clogs.
It's got the big back wheels, usually the wheels get replaced and upgraded when a rock or peice of wood comes off the blade and takes out a wheel.

I also RTV'ed the paper air filter to the air cleaner since it eats a lot of dust.

Now I'm going to build a pack of lawn mowers to drag behisnd my riding mower.
I bought a 21 inch briggs and stratton ran with out oil and blown, I'm going to stick a 190cc 6.5hp engine on it. A 6.5hp with a 21 inch blade will be very tough to stall.
The others are that 6hp flat head and a 3hp flat head from the 1990s. The 3hp will over lap with the riding mower so it only has to eat a 12 to 14 inch wide strip of grass so it doesn't stall all the time.

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How much grass are you cutting ?


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17 acres of my own plus about 2 half acre lots.
I need to put some 4 legged grass cutters on there.

I found a blade adaptor that will allow me to use star pattern riding lawn mower blades on a push mower.. That's significant because riding mower blades have commercial versions that are very heavy and tungsten carbide crystal coated.
Typical push mower blades are thin, cheap and dull quickly from low alloy content. The carbide crystal commercial blades are self sharpening.

The muffler fell off so I fixed it.
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1662173621
All it needs is a flapper.

Better tune that with a couple elbows!

You know when the mower throws off mufflers it means the crank shaft is bent.
-mort

There's a special place in my heart for Wheel Horse

The blade was worn down and missing a chunk.
A fresh blade as brought it back into ballance.
Main reason for the zoomy style pipe is to I get breath lawn mower exhausted with the horizontal exhausted discharge. Any time I'm along the fence of up against the house I can smell it.

17 acres of lawn?
Isn’t it to big area for such a small mower

I have a tractor too

I would say the ridiculous zoomy pipe is definitely making the mower more resistant to bogging down.
I should do this to my 540cc single cylinder riding mower too.

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Have you ever tried using Amsoil UCL in your mower gas? I've been using it with only E0 gas, and it did make a considerable difference for how long my tank lasted; for my lawn (that's probably a lot smaller,) I could nearly mow the whole place without filling up again. If I didn't use UCL, I'd need to re-fill once.

Then again, I was over-treating it at first, which gave a big puff of smoke when the mower started up. I'd put around a capful in 32 oz of gas. This also made it a bit more difficult to start the mower.

For a while now, though, I've been using 1 ounce in 4 gallons of fuel. The fuel doesn't last as long, so I was thinking of going down to 1 ounce for 3 gallons to see how that goes.

UCL should give a slight bit more power to the mower too, along side the E0 gas doing that too.

I was mowing the rental house and the push mower ran out of gas. I thought it was full, I guess not. So I filled it up with my 40:1 weed eater gas. The push mower really seems to like that 2 stroke gas. Think I might have to start using mostly weed eater gas then I can just carry the one gas can for both machines.

Afaik plug fouling is the only downside to 2 stroke fuel. The oil tends to improve compression