Re: Crazy idea...

Posted by Matt snape On 2011/7/18 4:34:04

A good friend of my father built and sold a number of lawn mowers - doesn't sound so impressive I know, but these were based on a VW Beetle floor pan and the motor drove a 5' diameter blade! He was able to mow his lawn at 40mph and could cut down trees with the thing!

With a platform built on top to act as a carry tray they were popular with small hobby farmers that didn't want to spend the money on a tractor and just needed to slash the horse paddock occasionally and carry a few bales of hay. Our friend got sick of building them after a while - once he had perfected the design it got boring...