this is how you kind of read the signs of a piece of equipment I bought this
for 200 bucks because when you engage the blades that makes a banging noise
and I know I could fix that the guy wanted 400 I offered him too when he
took it it's uh was it 110 l110 it's got a 17 horse Kohler command which is the
good engine not the courage it's got the Kohler command hydraulic liquors really
good engine good solid powerful engine the wheel bearings are tight the
kingpins the axles are tight this thing has been left out and exposed to the Sun
which is what makes it look so terrible tires are dry rotted seats tore up and
the deck has had the hell beaten out of it and I've already figured out what the
banging sound is there is a shroud that go around the book okay and a phone call
I was telling you about the shrouds these here this is the bottom of the
deck I've removed the blades and there's what the blades hitting on one of the
little shrouds that help create lift and vacuum
so what I'm gonna do is cut this about here get some vice grips or a clamp
compress it down to this and weld it back to plate
yeah we got a Hills a rainstorm
yeah I know that's in the rain but it through it's through a ride the other
day busted a hole in the crankcase and I'm just going to pull a few cards off
of it that I know I'll need and get rid of the rest of it throttle cable and
carburetor and wheels you know this stuff that you'll eventually have to use
new wait let me get back to this I'm gonna keep this so I'm gonna use this on
the new land that I've got because it's so rough over there holes and you know
mowing that with a lawn mower is you know borderline abuse so I'm gonna you
know I gave 200 bucks for this so I get a couple of years out of it I'm happy
I'm fixing to buy new blades today these bolts that held the blades on we're so
bummed up then I'm gonna go to the John Deere dealer and see if I can replace
them folks I had the hammer a socket onto them and take them out with my air
wrench and because of that I had a hammer the bolts out of the socket so
now that really bummed up and we won't put him back on I'll put some anti-seize
on there you don't need to crank these things down that say that's it lays in
this little groove here it ain't gonna plus it's got a it's got a pin here it's
it's over and then two bolts it ain't going nowhere so do you don't need a
hammer on them with air right you type them up with a regular box end wrench
and you're done anyway by the end of the day this will
be back together and running great and then I got to get my Old Faithful the
one I don't want to use on that new property the old Custer debt that I've
had fourteen years now I got to get that in here and clean the deck off and
breech the bearings and get ready for the rest of the summer it
looks like it's gonna be having lots of green grass to cut I'm not complaining
we had drought for like four years in a row okay enough chat later oh I'm back
to work get the lawnmower here my $200 lawn no I got into a whole bunch of
poison ivy poison oak poison sumac on the property across the street that I've
been clearing and it actually made me sick
I got it everywhere so anyway made me sick I kind of took to yesterday
off and I'm not moving too quick today but uh I'm gonna get what I can done I'm
gonna tack this back I want to hammer this back in place and weld it and got a
new belt got two new blades I'm get it put back under there
adjust the deck and that will be done there's nothing I need to do to the
motor it's got a new filter a new air filter a new oil in it and that was
already done oh the guy I bought this from took it to the John dealer the John
Deere dealer and they told him that it would cost four hundred dollars to fix
this deck and he put it on Craigslist as a non-working lawnmower he was asking
for hundred I offered in two when he jumped at 200 so anyway it's really an
easy fix if you got a welder and if you didn't have well there you know you
could drill a hole through here straight through here and you could just bolt
this back up real hard and you know there's a way to fix stuff without a
welder and even if you actually took this deck off and brought it to a welder
I bet you could have it welded for a 40 50 bucks all right let me get to getting
this thing back together don't get too close I just welded that
all right we got clearance I did not buy bolts hold it on what I'm gonna do is uh
put these on my sanding belt and clean them up make them hexagonal again the
threads are okay but I got a knocked these things we've
just been chewed up by people probably not putting the right size wrench on
there all right let me get that get these two blades on get it turned over
get the belt on get it on the lawnmower well the deck is on the hood is owned
now I'm back out here and the next clip you'll see is possibly of me mowing I'm
not gonna mow much because the yard we had two and a half inches of rain
yesterday two inches the day before so I'm just gonna mow a little bit just to
make sure it mows see in a minute