Got an old project returned to me

[Sparkwizard]

I created this thing about 25 years ago. I used for a few years, clearing trees and brush from my property. I sold it around 2010 to a friend to use in a small junkyard. They left it outside, used it to haul engines, transmissions, tools, body parts... When the last battery died, they used the rope until it broke. Then, they listed it for sale on Facebook, but nobody wanted it, so my buddy took it home and put it under a shelter for 3 years. He decided he would never get around to fixing it, so he messaged me. 'If you want it, come and get it." I live about 60 miles away,now, so I jumped in my 89 Chevy 4x4 farm truck and hit the road. We used a roll back to get it into my 1/2 ton truck. It weighs well over 800 pounds, stuck out past the tailgate (lowered) and we chained it in. Hadn't run in over 4 years. I think it still had the 1998 oil, plug and air filter in it. New battery, splash of gas and it fired up. I had to replace the float because it no longer floated. It has all hand controls. One lever is a brake, the other is F/N/R. Throttle is a Star Trek type on the right side. It was a NEW Tecumseh HM100 when I finished it. Goes about 15 MPH up hill, downhill, empty or loaded.

 

[Sparkwizard]

That Wheel Horse "Kart" in the back ground is my 12 year old son's modified Predator 420 powered yard dog and mud mower.

 

[Denny]

If you would have done a better lob building it maybe it would not have broke so soon and he would still be driving it. You are a bad friend.

 

[Sparkwizard]

If you would have done a better lob building it maybe it would not have broke so soon and he would still be driving it. You are a bad friend.

This thing will outlive you and me. All cast iron, (except the engine) and HUGE parts.

 

[Denny]

It looks beefy.

 

[Sparkwizard]

It was a walk behind "Moto'Bug" brand wheel barrow thing that we found in a factory that made cement blocks. It would carry pallets of concrete blocks around and be unloaded by forklift. When I bought it, it was at a fruit farm in Florida, still walk behind. No engine when I got it, but that diff thing and the huge chain were still there. I cut off a golf cart front suspension and steering, welded a frame from 4 inch by half inch angle iron and put that new engine in it. The bed kept dumping after I put the bumper hitch on it, so I welded a channel iron mount to the front of the bed and mounted a huge Wilton vise on it as a counterweight. The vise did not come back to me.