The output out the mower that feeds into the second deck fights the outflow of the second deck. This will cause it to plug rapidly in wet grass snd generally make for a clumpy cut.
When I bought my place with five acres it took me two days to mow with my 42" riding mower. So I bought two 22" push mowers and connected them 36" apart from each other. I removed the front wheels and added a large caster wheel in front of each one, and towed the whole thing behind the riding mower with an aluminum bar a-frame. That gave me over 6' of mowing for less than $2000 total investment. I have a tractor and brush cutter now that I use for the big areas and a big zero turn for the yards, but the tow behind contraption was more fun. I'll post a short video of it in operation to my channel.
Good old Briggs Flathead engines. Those things would run forever with basic maintenance. It is crazy to think that less than a decade ago, they were still making those bulletproof engines, and now the ones they make are worse than some of the no-name Chinese engines. The saying "they don't make them like they used to" is true, but in some cases like this, you really don't have to look back too far.
I've never liked these engines. Give me a Honda GXV160 over these and you don't have the Achilles heel of a plastic carburetor that can warp using a rubbeer diaphram that hardens when using any grade of fuel and the stupid idea of a primer bulb that you have to bend over, pump three times, go back to the handle, pull three or four times because the diaphragm is done, prime again and then after a few times of doing this you toss it off a hill.. All of that is simplified with a gravity feed system and a manual choke/throttle up on the handle. Honda, you can start the engine faster and easier than you would with these things. This includes Kohler and Kawasaki.
@@WJCTechyman yep, and you are paying much more. I have only seen a couple warped Carbs, and not having a desperate float bowl makes it much more reliable if someone leaves old gas in it. These engines are cheap, simple and can last decades.
I can see putting the lawnmowers inline front to back. The front mower would be up higher for tall grass and the back mower would be lower for a finish cut.
We used to do this for tow behind finish mowers, but we used 3 so there was a couple of inches of overlap where they all met in a type of triangular shape. We used the bolt holes from the rear corners of the front mower to the front interior corner of the 2 trailing mowers (one of the trailing mowers was turned backwards to keep the discharge port open). We left all of the remaining wheels in place and used some angle iron to fashion a tow bar with a pin hitch for the atv or lawn tractor. It was a simple, reliable, 60" cutting finish mower that we used for many years and cost less than $100 years go.
Not really. Other companies have been making large walk behind mowers for ages. Toro, Scag and Ferris make them but cost a lot of money. Not to mention that riding lawn mowers used aren't a lot of money. There's also the option of buying a walk behind field and brush mower.
Great idea and well made. The only way to improve it would be to use sell propelled mowers and put a seat on the back. You could leave the separate drives systems independent, so that you could use them to steer with!
At that point you may as well pay a few hundred for an old lawn tractor. Also, the self propulsion on these kinds of mowers are only built enough to carry the mower, bag (if it has that function) and the collected debris. Most of them are so cheaply made you'll bust the transaxle in one or two sweeps carrying your weight since most of them are held together in a plastic box.
My only problem with it would be the strip down the middle that doesn't get cut. You basically lost the advantage of the width by having to overlap by 1/2 the unit. A hinge in the middle would have been cool to try too before you welded the axles together. For those of us with rolling landscapes.
Surprized the mower on the right doesn't clog with the one on the left shooting grass to the wrong direction of the one on the right! Now if you turned the one around that might work ok, anyway you look at it good welding on trash metal!
This is once again one of the ideas / projects I love your channel for. The way you built this special mower could not have been done better, I especially like the two wheels in the middle, what a good idea.
Very clean combination, If anyone else is considering this it might be faster to simply mount them unaltered side by side in a sort of staircase shape. with one mower 1 step forwards. This would allow for an overlap in cut path, you may also have to flip one mower around so that each mowers exhaust port faces out.
Instead of 2 motor's it's just a good idea to set up a belt with a belt drive useing one motor taking some parts off a used riding mower to get both blades to turn with only one motor but you,ll probably need a bigger motor because it will use more horsepower to run 2 blades just using the deck blade from a riding mower seems like it might be a good option 🧐...
Mislim da je to pretesko za gurati i da nema bas neku logiku! Druga stvar je da ova kosilica baca pokošenu travu u kosilicu pokraj sebe, sto znaci da ju utusi. Ali ok, za odmarati dušu i psihu dobar projekt!
Smart idea but I can already see one problem. One mower is higher than the other and it was showing in the video with the grass cut at different lengths on either side. I'm not knocking the idea but if it was height adjustable it would have been perfect.
after watching the video closely I can tell the mower on the left is a little higher than the right side. The right mower is cutting lower than the left side. Make that adjustment and they both should cut evenly. Great idea tho!
Hey Doctor D.S. Maybe instead of manually pushing it and a frame a seat and a steering wheel so you can sit and mow in stead of pushing lol 😂 Love the videos please bring back the lawnmower series
80s? Try 70s or 60s. If anything, flathead technology is over a hundred years old since Ford invented it. It's one of the reasons Honda mowers are so coveted. Its engines date back to the mid 80s (again, pushrod OHV engines have been around for quite a while) but have had incremental upgrades over the nearly four decades of production.
@@WJCTechyman its exactly the same as the 80s Murrays. ive worked on a couple mowers and i recognize that engine anywhere. ive worked on a 86 murray with that exact engine.
the ridged welded connection between the two mowers works on flat plane land, but if you have more uneven wavy land, better to make the connection with some articulation between the mowers. this could be done with some hinges and flexible metal duct.
The duel mowers are impressive! Definitely be good for mowing a golf course with long grass. Either way, very innovative impressive and a good way to get a job done.
I don't know why you just didn't attach them by the rear wheel of one of them, so they could be staggered. Doing it your way either the blades will hit each other or they won't be close enough and it will leave uncut strip
@@RCRWJR And if you hit an area of the ground that causes the whole thing to flex....CRASH and you end up junking at least one of the engines and these Briggs are made to a price point, so that's a possibility.
Well, the second engine will be working harder as it receives everything from the first as well as cutting its own grass. I would have rotated one 180 degrees so it fires out both sides like a 42" BCS bagger mower.
The only problem I see is that the lawnmower on the left is ejecting the cut grass to the lawnmower on the right, and therefore has to eject the grass it cuts and the grass cut by the lawnmower on the left. I would have put the lawn mower on the left in the other direction, so that each mower ejects the grass from each side, one facing forward and the other facing backwards.
The output out the mower that feeds into the second deck fights the outflow of the second deck. This will cause it to plug rapidly in wet grass snd generally make for a clumpy cut.
He refrained from mowing the very tall grass. This is often because the problems are not as visible when only the shorter grass is cut.
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Kul ideja ja bih to napravio da imam ravne površine i da nije usko.Svaka čast na ideji i šteta što kosilice nemaju pogon❤❤
kako nemaju pogon? imaju ali na žgance hehehe
When I bought my place with five acres it took me two days to mow with my 42" riding mower. So I bought two 22" push mowers and connected them 36" apart from each other. I removed the front wheels and added a large caster wheel in front of each one, and towed the whole thing behind the riding mower with an aluminum bar a-frame. That gave me over 6' of mowing for less than $2000 total investment. I have a tractor and brush cutter now that I use for the big areas and a big zero turn for the yards, but the tow behind contraption was more fun. I'll post a short video of it in operation to my channel.
Good old Briggs Flathead engines. Those things would run forever with basic maintenance. It is crazy to think that less than a decade ago, they were still making those bulletproof engines, and now the ones they make are worse than some of the no-name Chinese engines.
The saying "they don't make them like they used to" is true, but in some cases like this, you really don't have to look back too far.
I've never liked these engines. Give me a Honda GXV160 over these and you don't have the Achilles heel of a plastic carburetor that can warp using a rubbeer diaphram that hardens when using any grade of fuel and the stupid idea of a primer bulb that you have to bend over, pump three times, go back to the handle, pull three or four times because the diaphragm is done, prime again and then after a few times of doing this you toss it off a hill.. All of that is simplified with a gravity feed system and a manual choke/throttle up on the handle. Honda, you can start the engine faster and easier than you would with these things. This includes Kohler and Kawasaki.
@@WJCTechyman yep, and you are paying much more. I have only seen a couple warped Carbs, and not having a desperate float bowl makes it much more reliable if someone leaves old gas in it. These engines are cheap, simple and can last decades.
Awesome idea 👍 👌
Congratulations, you just invented Siamese lawn mowers 😁🤩👍
I can see putting the lawnmowers inline front to back. The front mower would be up higher for tall grass and the back mower would be lower for a finish cut.
Awesome thanks
Now he needs to make a three push mower❤❤❤❤❤
Like a twin stroller 😀
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We used to do this for tow behind finish mowers, but we used 3 so there was a couple of inches of overlap where they all met in a type of triangular shape. We used the bolt holes from the rear corners of the front mower to the front interior corner of the 2 trailing mowers (one of the trailing mowers was turned backwards to keep the discharge port open). We left all of the remaining wheels in place and used some angle iron to fashion a tow bar with a pin hitch for the atv or lawn tractor. It was a simple, reliable, 60" cutting finish mower that we used for many years and cost less than $100 years go.
Nice work
That is sick
Good job ! 👍
you need to make the blades closer like a timed deck so you won't have a middle strip
Double the gun, double the fun.
-Serious Sam.💣
Nice .. But turn it around 180 so discharge is on both sides for excavator mount
I have something very similar It has a 46-in cut. And I can ride it 🤯
Weld 2 of them together and you can have a 92-in cut riding mower, I just blew your mind.
Dang kool idea 😊
Super videooo
bro make custom exhaust for them
Got to admit that is ingenious.
Not really. Other companies have been making large walk behind mowers for ages. Toro, Scag and Ferris make them but cost a lot of money. Not to mention that riding lawn mowers used aren't a lot of money. There's also the option of buying a walk behind field and brush mower.
Great idea and well made. The only way to improve it would be to use sell propelled mowers and put a seat on the back. You could leave the separate drives systems independent, so that you could use them to steer with!
At that point you may as well pay a few hundred for an old lawn tractor. Also, the self propulsion on these kinds of mowers are only built enough to carry the mower, bag (if it has that function) and the collected debris. Most of them are so cheaply made you'll bust the transaxle in one or two sweeps carrying your weight since most of them are held together in a plastic box.
@@WJCTechyman Don't worry 'techyman', I was joking about the seat.
My only problem with it would be the strip down the middle that doesn't get cut. You basically lost the advantage of the width by having to overlap by 1/2 the unit.
A hinge in the middle would have been cool to try too before you welded the axles together. For those of us with rolling landscapes.
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Hey du bist echt verrückt aber genial
Great job, I use $1 spring loaded clamps instead of zip ties.
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This would be a good idea IF you could make the two blades counter rotating to each other with opposing chutes
Genius idea!
HILLARIOUS but WRONG on so many levels.
Surprized the mower on the right doesn't clog with the one on the left shooting grass to the wrong direction of the one on the right! Now if you turned the one around that might work ok, anyway you look at it good welding on trash metal!
This is once again one of the ideas / projects I love your channel for. The way you built this special mower could not have been done better, I especially like the two wheels in the middle, what a good idea.
NICE. I had to see how you solved the gap between blades
Here's a thought but a riding mower
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Try to merge the safety release on both mowers instead of disabling them
Very clean combination, If anyone else is considering this it might be faster to simply mount them unaltered side by side in a sort of staircase shape. with one mower 1 step forwards. This would allow for an overlap in cut path, you may also have to flip one mower around so that each mowers exhaust port faces out.
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This design will leave an uncut strip down the middle.
the wife can follow him with scissors just dont fall and slip
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Not a bad idea, but with front wheel drive, it would do the job easy and quick.
It looks successful to me the video so far has 300k views and 3.6k likes 👍
Awesome idea!!😊
Great invention I like it 🎉
I would think the 1 small ejector Shute would be an issue, maybe not
"It slices, it dices, it mulches!" The only mower(s) you'll ever need!
Instead of 2 motor's it's just a good idea to set up a belt with a belt drive useing one motor taking some parts off a used riding mower to get both blades to turn with only one motor but you,ll probably need a bigger motor because it will use more horsepower to run 2 blades just using the deck blade from a riding mower seems like it might be a good option 🧐...
Better yet, just use the rider, saving your time and effort.
Next project, change gasoline powered with Gemišt powered fuel system
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Hey man, why did you stop the BMW pickup project?
And I'm also waiting for those projects 🤣
Probably because it's in the shop with all the other BMW's 😂
Because he would rather stick two lawn mowers together and weld them..
Cuz he is now a Ford man. First on race day. Lol
Probably because BMWs are pieces of crap and not worth modifying
That is cool, you did a great job and you can build your leg muscles up pushing two mowers.
double engine 😄👍👍👍
Cool..video is awesome 👍🏾
You need to add a self propelled unit.... LOL Nice cutter 🦾
very nice ❤
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Mislim da je to pretesko za gurati i da nema bas neku logiku! Druga stvar je da ova kosilica baca pokošenu travu u kosilicu pokraj sebe, sto znaci da ju utusi. Ali ok, za odmarati dušu i psihu dobar projekt!
Aw man, I dropped $1500 on a Toro Time master when I could have just welded together a couple curb finds.
Well that was a first, nice clean job
Remember to grind th paint off before you weld , that's pretty cool 👍
Good idea actually 👍
Genius 😂😂😂
Cool
Now to make it R.C 😁👍
Smart idea but I can already see one problem. One mower is higher than the other and it was showing in the video with the grass cut at different lengths on either side. I'm not knocking the idea but if it was height adjustable it would have been perfect.
what you have made is a common trail mower taaaaaadaaaaa, now you need to make another just like but which is self propelled
Close it up and put some mulching blades on . . If you could make it self propelled 👍
Lawn mower date😅
after watching the video closely I can tell the mower on the left is a little higher than the right side. The right mower is cutting lower than the left side. Make that adjustment and they both should cut evenly. Great idea tho!
Great !
Now do the same thing with riding lawnmowers.
Hey Doctor D.S.
Maybe instead of manually pushing it and a frame a seat and a steering wheel so you can sit and mow in stead of pushing lol 😂
Love the videos please bring back the lawnmower series
He's already got a MTD Silvertrac lol
I would have spray painted over the welds to prevent rust. The rest of the project looks okay.
wow those motors... same engine design and everything from the 80s
80s? Try 70s or 60s. If anything, flathead technology is over a hundred years old since Ford invented it. It's one of the reasons Honda mowers are so coveted. Its engines date back to the mid 80s (again, pushrod OHV engines have been around for quite a while) but have had incremental upgrades over the nearly four decades of production.
@@WJCTechyman its exactly the same as the 80s Murrays. ive worked on a couple mowers and i recognize that engine anywhere. ive worked on a 86 murray with that exact engine.
Love it!
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I gots a idea buy a ryder 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ryder is a cube van rental company as well as the first name of the actor who played Shawn Hunter. I think you mean rider.
Ya my phone gets dyslexia sometimes 😂😂😂😂
the ridged welded connection between the two mowers works on flat plane land, but if you have more uneven wavy land, better to make the connection with some articulation between the mowers. this could be done with some hinges and flexible metal duct.
It just looks right.
He is not even cutting any grass with the mowers combined. He is just running over precut grass.
The mowers look like they’re both at different heights
Back in the day, 70's it was a thing to see how many and or cycle mowers u could ty together and it was up to 6 rotary and 12 cycle mowers
The duel mowers are impressive! Definitely be good for mowing a golf course with long grass. Either way, very innovative impressive and a good way to get a job done.
Ayyyyyyyyyy 8min
I don't know why you just didn't attach them by the rear wheel of one of them, so they could be staggered. Doing it your way either the blades will hit each other or they won't be close enough and it will leave uncut strip
2mm ... watch again
@@RCRWJR And if you hit an area of the ground that causes the whole thing to flex....CRASH and you end up junking at least one of the engines and these Briggs are made to a price point, so that's a possibility.
Well, the second engine will be working harder as it receives everything from the first as well as cutting its own grass. I would have rotated one 180 degrees so it fires out both sides like a 42" BCS bagger mower.
I somehow think your wheels will be the first things to wear out, running on allthread like that!
Very nice love the idea, must be kind of tough to push though.
You should do 3
Thats what Im talkin 'bout
The only problem I see is that the lawnmower on the left is ejecting the cut grass to the lawnmower on the right, and therefore has to eject the grass it cuts and the grass cut by the lawnmower on the left. I would have put the lawn mower on the left in the other direction, so that each mower ejects the grass from each side, one facing forward and the other facing backwards.
Even better have them offset so one is in front of the other.
@@Saltbearer this is the best idea that way you can still use the mower in front as just a regular mower to get in narrow spaces.
This is the same design a lot of lawn tractor mowing decks use, it's fine.
The mowers are blowing against each other 😂😂
MAN. I LIKE IT. IM DOING THAT NEXT WEEK. I THINK ITS FREAKIN GREAT MAN. THANKS FOR THE IDEA !!
Impressive 😮 you should see if you can hook 4 of them together lol
And then see if you can push it
Youd have to pull it behind a riding mower 😆