DIY trail mower or bush hog for utv or atv. Homemade pull behind brush cutter
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2019
- When you don't have a tractor but you need some trails, food plots, or fields cut... you make something. Follow along as i build my own pull-behind brush cutter.
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SON the trick was having all the right tools to get'er DONE I.E. PLASMA CUTTER AND WELDER, YES SLIGHTLY JEALOUS- BUT !!! YOU DID A GREAT JOB, loved seeing your son be a part of it !
Yes it was. Haha. Although I made plenty of stuff with a grinder and cutoff disc and flux cores welder… but you are correct, it would be hard to go back to those days. Plasma cutter makes life easy. Thanks for stopping by.
Loved it! just finished building mine. I didn't even bother building a new frame. Works awesome for trails.
That’s awesome
I just came across your channel. It is so refreshing to see someone think on the fly and just build what he wants in such a practical way while using what is available. The whole setup of welding on your knees on the concrete is admirable instead of some other builds working in a $200k shop! The kids and family popping in and out is great. I hope you can earn some extra cash from CZcams but keep the no-nonsense, straight forward and honest approach as you go forward. Thank you ever so much. I plan to try some of your ideas in the great white north of Canada this summer.
thanks for those kind words, Ron. I think you'll enjoy the new videos coming up. Lots of changes for our family which means lots of cool videos dropping soon.
Dude my hats off to you that was a great build very interesting thanks!
Much appreciated
Thank you so much for your radios greatly enjoy them please keep sending them we love you in Alabama
thanks man... we have some more good ones in the works.
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms 👍👍👍👍👍
@@lancetucker4518 i grew up in talladega
I work at Bluebell in Scylla khaga work at Talladega in a national tractor when I was younger
My neighbor and I were just talking about building one of these today and now you have made it that much easier. I found a local guy who is selling riding mowers for $50 a piece. Going tomorrow to go pick one up.
Heard that. It’s really simple. Hope you can get a good deck to build with, it will make all the difference. Good luck guys!
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms Any tips on what I should look for with the mower, deck size, ect? He says he has about 30-40 different mowers. All different models and deck sizes.
@@Zimeftw the size doesn’t really matter, just whatever you need... I think bigger is better. The one thing I would recommend would be to try and find one with a fabricated deck instead of a stamped deck. It will be wayyy tougher.
Yes…what a G!
awesome work man! This was really cool to watch!
Thanks man
Love this. Can't wait to start building one. Thankyou.
Good luck! hope it turns out great!
Great job, great skills!
Thank you.
That thing is cool. Wish you lived close by so I could borrow it. :) Just bought some land I need to clear and this would be so handy! Nice job, Sir!
Thank you, Congrats on your new land!
My kind of channel!! I love making my own stuff. Up here in PA, we get a ton of snow so my next build is going to be an ATV mounted snowblower. Keep the videos coming....I need more ideas!!!
sounds like a fun project! make it happen.
you prolly dont give a shit but if you are bored like me atm then you can stream all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. I've been streaming with my gf for the last months :)
@Lachlan Roberto Yup, been watching on instaflixxer for months myself :D
Liked your creation really cool
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Thanks for watching
That's awesome great job
Thank you.
man , that turned out nice. I like your design. Looks store bought.
Thank you
I’m in the final 20 per cent of finishing mine. Got the same wheels and very similar frame. I made my wheel swivels just a little to narrow but they’re workable. Still have to mount the fuel tank, battery and connect it w/ the existing electrical harness.
Very nice. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed mine.
How did u wire it up ?
To the person who asked me how I wired it up, rather than fist fight my way through the electrical wiring diagram, I had a pro wire it up.
attach that to a riding mower for a 7ft wide cut! that would be amazing. Very cool project. I wish I knew how to weld lol..
yes it would! thanks! never too late to learn.
love it brother!!!
Thanks brother
I love the intro!
lol thanks
Love it. Great job!
Thank you!
Yup gotta build me one of those. Tired of burying the riding mower in the trails. Needs a kill switch and a belt engage/disengage and some height adjustments but well done sir, well done. 👍
thank you... and YESSS!!!! Please put a kill switch and blade engage. For what i used this for, i never missed the adjustable height... but i did miss a blade engage for sure.
Every mower can be a bush hog, just drag it thru the brush.
Some mowers are better at it than others. When I took
possesion of my country property it was a bush hoggers
dream come true, but, I didnt have a bush hog. I bought
a brand new John Deere lawn tractor & went to it hitting
rocks & libs & fallen branches & whatnot. I beat the hell
out of that blade set. Once I had the property de bushed,
I bought a new set of blades.
!
You are correct!
That’s awesome, I’d love to build something similar. My hunting property is mostly swamp have we are always getting the tractor stuck mostly due to the heavy weight.
Something like this may allow us to cut the wettest areas and be easier to get it unstuck worse case scenario.
Find some wide tires, like maybe golf cart tires and I bet it would ride on top of the mud. Might be perfect.
Remember - RE USING is the Ultimate form of Recycling !!! After fighting to keep an old Murray 42 inch deck mower running with parts from many others over the yrs and having a Frankenstein cobbled together deck and pieces all underneath that never wants to align properly or stay right, this is by far the way to go. !!
No doubt. Thanks for stopping by
Looks good.I think I would have cut a bigger opening for discharge of the cuttings
stay tuned for more ATV implement videos coming!!! disc, drag, cultipacker, seeder...
What part of South Alabama
@@lancetucker4518 covington county
I’m building one now as we speak. I’m glad God has allowed me to watch this video. Just wished I had prints. Currently on a wing and a prayer.
as long as the blades chop the tops of the grass you did it right! have fun with it! hope it turns out great, thanks for stopping by!
Scott, since every combination of engine and deck is unique, the truly great deal would be prints. But many of the decks we can get are 20 years old, parts aren’t available and you really have to improvise...
I’ve got a Swisher 6 hp string trimmer and the engine/ carb have been worked over so many times, the easiest alternative is just to get a working mower off of Craigslist.
You got some cute enthusiastic students.
appreciate it. they work hard most of the time... lol
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I've been looking at diy pull behind and most of them look like junk. I just started a lawn care business using older mowers we got for next to nothing and built/repaired to working order. I just picked up a older smaller side by side that we will be rebuilding this winter and we will also be building a pull behind to go with it along with a wide area sprayer. Your pull behind is by far the best one I've seen. I've skipped you video a few times due to just looking at the pic and thinking that's not a diy pull behind.lol will be looking at your other videos for sure.
Appreciate it man. I’ve seen some of the same ones your talking about. DIY doesn’t always have to mean junk. Lol. You can make one better than mine I’m sure. I think if I did it again I would make it adjustable height deck some how.
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms I'm looking at trying to use the deck hight adjustment off the mower I'll be cutting up to makes this have a 54in deck and a 48in deck as well that I can swap out depending on the job and how high/thick te grass is being cut. I figured with the 16 hp briggs t should work well
@@DML350 for sure. Sounds like you got it figured out. Hope it turns out great!
Very cool video
thank you!
I’ve been lookin for a homemade trail mower video for a while now and finally found one that don’t look like garbage. Great build and great video too! Where abouts in Alabama are you located? I live down across the bay from Mobile.
thanks man! I'm over in Covington County. It does a great job, and you're right, A lot of them may function fine, but look ridiculous... its not too much to ask that it work AND look good is it??? lol!
Well done!!
Thanks
hello, love the video. That is what i need for the christmas tree farm without spending the money for a new pull behind mower. Question. What size is the frame tubing if I may ask?
Awesome! I hope you can make one that works great for you, this one served me well... i believe i used 2" 11ga.
Cover or paint the fuel tank so the sun doesn't wreck it from the UV. Looks like it works good.
that's a good idea.
How did you bypass not having to use a blade engagement cable? I have an old swisher 44 that I’m trying to get back up and running after nearly a decade of no use. Some parts are pretty rusty and they want an arm and a leg for parts.
i just had to figure out which wire originally went to that safety switch and bypassed that part of the wiring harness. as far as the blade engagement itself it is just engaged all the time as the belt is in tension at all times with the main pulley on the motor... way more dangerous i guess but also very simple. a lever could be fabbed up to disengage/engage if it was a must for your application.
Is the motor installed so that the blade drive is always engaged or is there a lever you can spring load to engage the blades?
Always engaged.
Nice... what mower deck did you use looks heavy gauge steel
it was off of an old husqvarna commercial mower. i think a good heavy deck is a must... i don't know how long one of those residential decks would last dragging down the trail or through the woods.
On the next episode of Jack Daddy Customs, how to build a welding table. My knees are to fragile for all that working on the ground stuff. Awesome video though.
i check the scrap yard every time i go to see if there is something thick and straight enough for me to use for one... trust me, thats high on the priority list. haha
What kind of blades did you put on the mower? the stock ones or did you upgrade to something more robust?
stock blades. they work good enough. my back -up plan was to cut them and drill holes to make them swing like an actual bushel blade does, but didn't need to.
How did you get the blades to turn the correct way with the engine being at the back instead of the front like a tractor
the rotation is the same no matter where motor is... it still turns the same way. Hope that helps.
Am building one of these. Just refurbished a 52” 3 blade Murray deck. But how did you know where to position the motor mounting plate so when the motor and drive pulleys are in, they’re in the same plane as the driven pulleys on the deck?
Trial and error? Also, while you were welding, I did not notice a gas bottle hooked up to your welder. Were you using a wire fed welder with wire that provided it’s own shielding?
I measured off a level plane on the deck to the height of the pulleys on the deck and then measured down from the motor mount to the pulley. That will give you the measurements you need to know to get them pretty close. They don’t have to be exact as the belt will allow some play, but they do need to be pretty dang close. And I use mixed gas. I use flux coded wire sometimes but it’s not my favorite. To much to clean up. Good luck on your mower.
Great Idea
Thanks!
What was the length of top square tubes? 2ft? Building one now.
I really don’t remember and I have since sold the bush hog. Sorry.
What did you do for front swivel bearings?
I didn’t use bearings in the front swivels, just a bolt with several washers that I kept greased real good and a lock nut to keep it just tight enough to still swivel.
Seriously thinking about building this. Does it do a lot better than just leaving it on the belly of a ridding mower?
I feel like it does. I can’t really compare as I haven’t had it the other way but surely this maneuvers better the way it is. Plus, it looks way cooler.
What brand of commercial deck is that? Looks like about a 48 to 52 inch.
it off of a husqvarna zero turn. i believe it was a 52 or 54. it was a fabricated deck... that's the key.
I’ve been wanting to try to make my own, converting a pto driven finishing mower and mounting a motor on it to be a tow-behind.
That will be sweet. I thought about that as well but I think it would need a bigger motor than I had available as well as some type of clutch or slip clutch system. Hope you get it figured out and make it happen.
Nice job. I'd like a front mount for my ATV.
Your music is good. Is that you pickin'? Can't stand the head banging rock or techno noise most folks use.
Front mount would definitely be sweet. The music is just standard music on the video editing app I believe. I wish I could pick that good.
Awesome!
Thank you
Nice job brother, I need you for a neighbor 😂
Lol. I’m good with that as long as you find the projects. 😂
Good Job, how did you know what size belt you needed or was it the same one for the original lawn mower, :)
Thanks
i used a string to go around the pulleys and then went to the store and matched that length as a starting point. it took two tries... first one was too short.
How are the swivels on your front wheels working?
Just like anything, they work fine as long as I keep grease on them. Lol. A design like a grasshopper or a finish mower where a shaft is contained within a tube would be much better though.
Looks like you had most of the tools, and were given the mower. But all in all, how much did you invest in this project?
I had between 300-350... but like you said, i had most everything on hand. biggest expense for me was the used fabricated deck from a lawnmower salvage yard.
AWESOME JOB! But... unfortunately that type of deck is best used on lower grass as a finish mower not a rough cut like what you are trying to use it for.
no doubt... works way better to maintain once you get through the first cut.
How did u wire it up bc I did same thing but can’t seem to keep it running.
I basically kept the same wiring harness to the switch and all, I just had to bypass the safety mechanisms for blade and seat.
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms how did u construct the I engage pulley and put the belt on
Dude you are creative, love your builds. Keep it up. Subscribe today.
Thanks a lot... i have a bunch of ideas in the ol think tank, just gotta make it happen. more videos coming.
Every cool looking to build one for 2 in trees
you may just need a tractor for 2 inch trees... hahaha. i'm sure you can figure something out with a little engineering. Good Luck!
Good job man. I can't stand what a throw away society we've become. I try to reuse and repurpose everything.
Next project must be a welding bench.
lol... my knees and back agree with you!
Nice.
You butt head
Looks nice but how do you adjust the deck heights
i made mine to ride a certain height. you could build it to ride whatever height you wanted, or it would be easy to make a floating deck using chains that you could adjust with bolts... i just knew what height i wanted and made it permanent.
Hey buddy where are you located
@@lancetucker4518 south alabama
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms Hi buddy I'm in Talladega County
Loved your video. 👍👍👍👍👍 I subbed but didn’t give a like because I didn’t want to be 666.
Heard that. I don’t blame you one bit. 😂
Need to fabricate a welding table man, your back will thank you later
Lol. Tell me about it. I say that’s my next project after every single project I finish. It’s so bad I have even thought about buying one.
Yup, trail mower, not a bush/brush hog. But it does work how you used it. Maybe sharpen the blades, it wasn't cutting clean.
What's it like being so unhappy?
What size tube did you use?
2 inch
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms thank you. I'll be building mine in the next week or two 😁
@@footballbat7707 nice!!! hope it turns out good!
@@JackArmstrong-jackdaddycustoms I'm hoping. I found a mower deck already. 42" cut 2 blades. I'm buying a 5.5 hp engine. Hoping it's enough power for both blades.
@@footballbat7707 should be. you may could make some hinged blades, (cut yours, drill holes, use grade 8 bolts) similar to a bush hog and that may help it to not bog down in tough stuff. hope it turns out great!
why pull behind, why not a push front mower?
its easier to make a single arm that attaches to a ball in the receiver than having to come up with a mount and mounting solutions for a push front mower. it could definitely be done though and the ranger would always be traveling in cleaner terrain that way!
why didnt you just pull the mower
would have been smaller deck, weaker deck, harder to maneuver through the woods... and i have the skill to make something much better than just pulling an old broke down mower... anybody can do that.
no, thats cool i was bing sarcastic that thing is sweet
Roger Epperson lol. I figured. I was being a little sarcastic myself. 👍🏼
He who walks with Jesus, walks slow but far and darker then midnight it can't go! My mom tells me that all the time. Lets build something! God bless from Toronto Canada!.
amen brother
You need a remote mic. can't hear you.
14 thumbs down???? What the hell????
You know how it is... there’s one... err 14 in every crowd. Haha. It’s all good. Thanks for watching!
LOL , you worked TOO HARD, but you got all you need, evidently you cut it all the same height, I didn't see any deck adjustment, and NO belt engagement?? I designed a 60" with NO pulleys, NO belts, NO idlers, NO spindles, and ALL that is associated with such, with 3 PREDATOR 5.5 HP (173cc) OHV Vertical Shaft Gas Engines and it IS sweet, my next one I think I will use the Honda engines the same size.
man that sounds like a beast... and yes, i worked way too hard... lol