Today we all together will make the toughest tests of the newest mud boat motors.
If you’ve seen other our videos you may know these people, and you may know me, Hi
guys, as usually its me just a voice over and you are watching review machines, so lets
have some motorboats offroading!
Well first of all few words in general about mud motors and what they are used for.
Actually these motors turn your boat into a real offroader!
An usual outboard motor allows you to go only in open deep water.
With a mud motor you can go almost wherever you want.
It can go places an outboard motor wouldn’t dare.
Skinny water, backwaters and swamps even streams.
Today we will try to test our motors in such conditions.
If you live in an area where there are a lot of swampy rivers a mud motor can do a lot
of good for you.
And today we have newest models of such motors called Burlak.
Lets look closer at them.
Firstly lets check the construction.
There are four models with different power of Lifan engines.
There are 6, 9, 15 and 20 HP.
The design is quite simple and I hope reliable.
The manufacturer states nothing here can be broken.
Most mud motors designed with a belt drive, but not these.
Here we have a chain drive with a centrifugal clutch.
A regular motor is equipped with a propeller made of aluminum.
In our case propellers are made of high quality steel to be capable to resist any clash with
any obstacle.
Well it is time to get to the practice.
To make the thorough tests we chose the suitable area with various water conditions.
There are both deep and skinny waters with rocky and swampy ground.
First thing – we set up our camp and get into water our boats.
We have an inflatable boat and custom steel boat made specially for our tests.
And this is the engineer who made the mud motors and our test driver.
Its Captain Grigoriy.
By the way his boat is also called Captain Grigoriy what a strange coincidence.
The motors are rather versatile they are suitable for various boats with loading capacity over
120 kilos and standard transom.
Besides there are many adjustments to choose the proper position of a propeller in water.
Well first test we are making in open water with 20 HP motor to check how they performs
here and check the maximum speed.
While our test drivers are getting the feel of the boats I can say that the motor is powerful
enough to provide good speed with two people on board.
Of course mud motors may be slower than a regular boat motors, but as we see they are
quite capable to accelerate the heavy boat to a decent speed.
Lets check the speedometer to find out the result.
Wow what a result, I hope you can see well these insane numbers!
Well I am kidding you, I know you can’t see anything at the display, so we will make
another speed test but a bit later.
And now the most interesting part of our video – the offroading tests, lets do this!
Here it is a shallow water place as you can see there is almost no water above it.
Firstly we get our boat into shoal and will try now to get out from here.
It is useless to try a regular motor here, but a mud motor is cut out for such conditions,
it loves shoals as you can see.
The frame and the propeller are very durable so the motor manages to get the boat moving
forward.
Now we will try to get over these shoals while moving with a good speed.
I think any outboard motor wouldn’t survive such a test, but the mud motor has surface
running propeller, so it’s a piece of cake for it to overcome these obstacles.
But of course the boat should be also quite durable like our vessel for example.
The next important feature of the motor is a clutch.
The propeller doesn’t rotate with an idle run of the engine.
But when you slightly push the throttle it starts rotating at once.
It is a good feature when you need to stop for a while, but there is no necessity to
stop the engine.
The next test is typical for moving through the small forest rivers, where there are a
lot of fallen trees floating on the surface.
So lets try to get over a log with a full throttle!
And again there are no any damages for the motor and the propeller so we are moving on.
By the way, while Captain Grigoriy is enjoying this awesome boat gliding I would like to
mention one interesting fact.
In our region nowadays such mud motors are quite popular and there is a theory what the
reason is.
The point is that many rivers are becoming more and more shallow at our place.
Many rivers and lakes that used to be suitable for regular motors nowadays are suitable only
for mud motors.
And I am very curious to know if it is just our local issue or it is a general tendency.
So please post a comment if you’ve noticed similar tendency at your place.
Meanime we have a dinner time and our Captain Grigory is hurrying up back to our camp.
And another useful feature of mud motors is that you can park your boat in this way.
Well we have some more interesting tests but lets move to other location.
Its getting dark outside but we have some more things to do.
As you may remember we’ve failed the previous test of maximum speed so lets try to do it
again.
Now you see the view from our drone that is flying with he same speed with our boat.
Lets check the dashboard of the drone.
In the left lower corner you may see the current speed.
So the result of steel boat is 32 km/h with 20 hp motor.
Now lets check the inflatable boat with 15 hp motor.
And the result is about 28 km/h.
Well the results are clear lets move on.
At our place there are many huge lakes covered with fields of some water flora.
Now we are trying to get right through such a field.
The steel surface running propeller of the motor chops the grass like a kitchen machine.
Besides the engine is quite torque and it is enough power to move across such obstacle.
Even if you jump on the shoal you are unlikely to damage your motor and will be able to proceed
your journey without a hitch.
Well guys and now it is high time to speak about the prices!
As you may remember there are four models of these mud motors.
The prices are: 700 dollars for 6 hp motor, 800 for 9 hp, 900 for 15 hp and 1300 for 20
hp.
So the prices are quite affordable.
Meantime its almost dark outside so it is time to call it a day.
Please post your comments what you think of these motors, and if you need one for what
purpose?
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