Small shop projects.

[forbigpicture]

^^^^^^^^

[Couper]

Originally Posted by dutch

here`s my lawn maintenance team. Both from the `70s. I rebuilt my "parts" mower and keep the other for back up. I dumped the collectors years ago. I kept walking to empty them.

Nice! Never saw one of those.

[bob w]

Wow! reel mowers still in use. Good for you.

[MercuryMac]

My Granddad had a wheel driven reel mower when I was little.
Today I made a spring tension belt tightener on the back/bottom of the mounting bracket.

[MercuryMac]

One step forward and two steps back. Today I started up the garden tractor and checked the electric, accessory clutch and it worked alright, but it turned the other way than I expected. The belt tightener that I had made and tucked away nicely was on the wrong belt side. Now I have to make it work on the front side which puts it too close to the front wheel at times and too close to the drag link. Arrrgg.
So I mounted my hydraulic tank crossways under the frame.

[MercuryMac]

Today I finished up making and painting my belt tightener, on the right side of the belt, this time. The plumbing is now started, as I installed the inlet hose from the tank to the pump. The third picture is a bracket to hold the suction line steady over on the left side of the tractor.

[MercuryMac]

Back on the lawn tractor again, I mounted the two control valves. There will be a boars nest of hoses just to the right of the seat.

[MercuryMac]

It turns out that the plumbing, [with a little more Imagineering] wasn't so bad. Here's most of the hoses strung in.

[Bamamav]

So I guess this is going to be a clean up tractor only, no mowing deck?

[MercuryMac]

Yes and no, Bama. This tractor won't have an underslung mower on it, but I still have the mower deck, [in good shape] so I hope to make it a trailing mower that I can swing out to the side and mow under my big spruce trees on the lawn. Now with hydraulics on the tractor maybe I can run the mower with a hydraulic motor and the mower deck can be 'movable' side to side.