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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
