Xeryon Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Until this spring I never had to buy a mower (sorta). When I bought my condo 8 years ago there was an abused old push mower in the shed. I got it running and used it until the wheel and the fuel tank fell off. I never cleaned it, never changed the oil, never changed or sharpened the blades, nothing. It was a 5hp briggs. Hell, one year I ran it out of oil entirely and it seized. I reoiled it and used my bf pipewrench on the crank and spun the motor until it rotated freely again and it fired right up. I tried buying one old rider and failed miserably, was given another and it sucked too. Junked them and bought a cheap Craftsman for $200 and it suits me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 Ive found 2 old briggs in a barn, poured kerosene in the plugs to free them up, they ran till i sold them. A grand is far to much for me to buy a rider, im cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 i can personally say briggs motors can be ran at high rpms for hours and solid mounted to frames that are jumped/flipped/ran into trees and they still live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 What do you mean by hi rpms, i think most are governed at like 3k... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 ours were governed at 3800... but the endurance race was basically full throttle at that rpms for hours for multiple races multiple years and during testing seems like a high rpm for a 10 hp briggs pos motor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 haha, yeah but I think of my old dirtbike was at 10k, and it was a single piston so I think that briggs should do that, wouldn't it be sweet to hear your home lawn mower sounding like a crotch rocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 i want a remote controlled robot that mows the lawn you can just sit outside and control it.. thought irobot had something like that but i didnt see it edit: buying a robomow http://www.robomow.com/ still might be fun to make one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 there are DIYs all over for them, when i was trying to find some ideas on making my rider. it wouldn't be to hard if you had a self propelled and some good servos (the actuator for self propelled are usually hard to pull, they are just a pully on the drive belt for what ive seen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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