what's wrong what's wrong do you let me see you shoot me you see you like well
today is gonna be a rainy day so let's do an inside project that cook a dead
over there it's really getting old and I'd like to get another ten years out of
it and that's starting it up just to pull my trailer around the yard is
really putting hours on the old engine and uh I think what I'm gonna do is put
a trailer hitch on the back of this so I can drag that trailer or around the yard
using this you're not supposed to on these ETRS from what I understand you're
not supposed to drag a trailer around I do not know why but it doesn't have a
lot of weight in it I just use it to drag all my my chair and water and
gasoline for my weed eaters and all stuff that I usually run out of about in
the middle of nowhere in the yard or on the new property that I bought it's a
long walk back to the house if you've forgotten gas or need a drink of water
so uh I'm gonna stop using that cup cadet as much but put a trailer hitch on
the back of this and I'm gonna use this too because this is the one I mow with
most of the time and a lot of times I dragged that out somewhere and bring gas
and water and chair and all that and use that to mow when I really want to use
this tomorrow so since I don't pull them you know much weight in that trailer I'm
gonna go ahead and build a bracket to hold the ball to drag my
trailer around and I have two options I could come off the sides and then you
know well something crossed it and come off the side here for this guard in the
back is thick metal it's I would say almost a eighth of an inch and it's
built it on both sides it's solid as a rock so I'm gonna fashion a little thing
that will hold let me turn the light on it's got about a 4 inch ledge up under
here and then this here so I'm gonna bolt it here a couple bolts and built it
up under here a couple of bolts but I got a make a bracket that'll work and
I've got a four by four tube inside that I think that it's a square tube I think
it'll work perfect so let me go dig that out and draw me up a little plan take
some measurements here and we'll get to cutting something make it up be right
back the thing that I have to be careful
about is these CTRs whatever hangs off of the back when you turn this thing
sharp there's that much you know two feet that you have to worry about swing
catching bushes and maybe the corners of buildings if you're close so when you
get used to how far out the back end sticks and in your mind you realize you
have to be that far away from things when you swing it around in a circle
because you know you do hook a few things until you get used to it so I
have to keep that in mind when I add even more to the back into this so what
I'm gonna do is keep this as small as possible or lengthwise I'm probably
gonna cut it right here put the ball right here
and then well the flat piece on this work and bolt right here and that this
will bolt up under here or down through here downwards there's not enough room
behind it to get to the boats so I'm not sure how I'm gonna do that I may just
use carriage bolts to go through the bottom and then the top and then bolt up
on her here so that's what I'm gonna do let me mark this - to my life and start
gathering some scrap steel and see what I got well there's sort of what I have
in mind now this will bolt up under that now I need to weld something right here
that will bolt to the face of that but I've got to go put this hold this up
under there and then mark where to weld a piece up here so let's go do that
let's check for square that is square
thank you what I'm gonna do is put a couple of tacks back here and then I'm
gonna go hold it up against there just to make sure that this thing is in fact
square I mean I might have to bend it in a little bit or bend it out a little bit
to be completely flush with the back of that so let me get my welder out put a
couple of tacks here and you know we'll go have a look at
all right that's gonna work just perfect so I'm gonna weld that both sides and
then I'm going to bolt through this and bolt it on and then I'll have to drill
up through the bottom and boy this is when we take in about 20 minutes I'd
hoped I could enjoy this a little longer well I still got to finish welding it
still got to finish drilling it and then I'm gonna take it all back off and spray
painted shiny black to match my brand-new lawnmower and then we'll bolt
it all back up put the ball on it won't be good to go see you in a minute
don't hate me because my welds are beautiful gorgeous just gorgeous
alright do this side and we're getting there
okay now I'm gonna go up drill the holes the horizontal goals and on the bottom I
drilled holes in the bottom so I heat up under there
and drill holes straight up through there otherwise I'll never you know I
could measure the center to Center and all that but I'd never get them square
so I'm gonna bolt it on this away first and then drill up this way and bolt it
on and here's a lesson important lesson have a little fire never weld with
shorts on and never ever weld with highly flammable polyester shorts on
okay let's go let's go in there
already now I've got to get up under here and drill up this way through the
bottom of that and put my bolts in
that's that's gonna look nice that's gonna look nice all right let me
make roll up on there I gotta sweep all this stuff up from underneath here so I
don't lay in it metal shavings and drill from the bottom up get them two bolts in
and put my ball in we're good to go be right back while the hole is my hands
are too big to get in this tubing so I'm gonna use this to get up in here all
right I go let go the camera Oh we'll be back okay there we go
gotta get my my ball hold that down and we're good to go back in a minute
I I don't have these type I gotta get a socket and tighten all these down I'll
be back when I get the ball on all right everything's tight I did put spacers
under there
I just I just want this thing to be square level and it is so putting the
ball on
when I put my washer and get it tightened up and we'll take one final
shot of this Oh all righty we don't with nice little
project okay well that's that solves a real problem
well it wasn't a real problem but it was a real problem me using that other cub
cadet the other lawnmower because it's so old this is its 15th season I'm
bumping you know 950 a thousand hours on it and I got a I got to rebuild the car
again this would be the third time I may just go ahead and buy a brand new
carburetor just because it deserves it and you know everything's good run I've
never replaced bearings anywhere I've replaced an oil seal on the crankshaft
one time replaced a head gaskets one time and that's it just basic
maintenance I did figure out how to get into the transmission drain it and
refill it so what would be good for another 10 years anyway that's the
trailer hitch I'm glad I did it I've been thinking about doing it and
mulling it over in my head whether to come off the sides here or whether this
is hard enough and this is definitely you know you don't want to pull no
campers around or boats with it but this will definitely pull anything I want to
pull with it without flexing or bending this this is a very thick so is this
it's bolted on solid it's got a nice Bend here so there will be no inward and
outward flex so we're done thanks for watching y'all