On Thursday 27 May 2010, Jon Elson wrote: >Mark Wendt wrote: >> On 05/26/2010 01:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Yup, a nearly $400 Cub Cadet. But OSHA or somebody has gotten into the >>> lawn mower design business in the name of safety, and mandated that the >>> skirt around the blade be made deep enough to protect the errant toe >>> that may get under it. > >Yeah, I'm still running a 1968 Bolens. It has a mini-PTO shaft, and a >bevel gearbox on the mower deck that changes speed and does the >right-angle change in shaft direction. I got the tiller for it too, and >a snow blade. I had a chance to get the 2-stage snow blower, but the >seller wanted a lot of money and I couldn't figure out how it worked. >Eventually I figured out it goes on the BACK of the tractor, which >sounds like a crazy way to use a snowblower. It has a single-cyl 12 Hp >Tecumseh engine. I put a motorcycle carb on it to replace the totally >worn out, and just "bad idea" side-draft carb with an updraft manifold. >This works a lot better, but needs a fuel pump to raise the gas. > >On-topic part : I made a number of these mods with my EMC-controlled >Bridgeport mill. A carb adaptor on the engine block, a bell crank to >change the governor linkage to the throttle plate, and the fuel pump. I >used a floppy drive motor with an eccentric shaft to pump a neoprene >bellows. > >This tractor and accessories cost me $1100, I think, about 20 years >ago. I've REALLY gotten my money's worth out of the thing, though. > >Going back to the original comment from Gene, above, I ran over my >youngest kid's foot about 2 weeks ago with it. He has this nasty habit >of following me around and trying to "help" like holding tree branches >out of my way. I got REALLY close to chopping his foot off with the >thing, just inches I think, and was really upset that my reaction time >was WAYYYY too slow. Just by sheer luck his foot missed the blades >because he was on the outlet chute side where the housing extends >another 4" or so beyond the blades. I HOPE we both learned a good >lesson that time! > >Jon
Yikes! OTOH, if he was on the chute side, I expect his legs probably got a bit of a message from the rapidly exiting material. Hopefully much the same stinging verbiage was heard from Daddy? As a learning aid? I had taken my chipper up the hill 2 houses and was helping a friend take care of some brush he had cut to make room for a privacy fence, and made the mistake of walking past the outlet chute a couple of times when it was doing its thing. That will get your attention. He hadn't wanted to attach the catch sack, so it was just shooting across the yard, and when were all done he fired up the rider and mulched and spread it till it was largely gone. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Some Windows were made to be broken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
