Monster Mud mower

i hate when you have to pull tractors out by hand. we got my friends mower stuck in the snow and it took for ever to get it out

Its happened to me before. Its quite a chore. My buddy and I's tractors we sunk into a deep mud put of thick sticky my, probably around 1 foot and a half deep. For the first ten minutes i was trying to stay on land all dry trying to lift the beast up, but by the end of the day i was in the mud trying to wrestle her out, knee deep in thick muck. Greeat day!

WOW, now thats what I call mudding!

I have 20x11-9 atv tires that I wanted to put on one of my mowers, but most mower wheels are 8"; the tires will just have to be spares for my atv then.

I do have 22x11-8 nice new atv tires on my green simplicity, but the tranny in that is making a lot of grinding sounds so I wanted other tires to put on my street murray so I could do some mudding with that.
The 22" I believe are to tall for the murray.

Oh......well!

yea we pretty much had his mower lost up to the back fender, it was all think slick mud that had no bottum, what sucked even more was it was at night and it was pitch dark out

proof shes running and moving, think the motor went but didnt really check it out yet

Couple years ago in the swamp behind the folks place i burried my agway- the thick gooey muck mud ( its a heavy black soil that area farmers grow potatoes in) was too much for the stock tires on it after churning it up the day before .

Sunk right down to the footrests - i had to hop off and push it out- if i didnt have the stock motor pulley on and most the deck hardware on it- it mightve been easier to get it out.

yes yes, we have had more than our fair share of burrying our mowers up to the pack fenders in thick greesy mud and in the swampy never ending mud they arent fun to get unstuck, i personaly like the deep water wholes rather than the deep thick mud holes it sucks getting realy stuck and taking hours to get out of it

will that ruin the tranny if it is under water ??

eventualy it will specially when its not sealed and the one bushing is rotted out like mine is, but if you seal the tranny and put some gear oil in it theres no need to worry

ok thanks ! becauce im building one !

no problem so far i havent had any problems with water ruining the tranny, just beating them too hard and breaking and cracking them so you should be fine all the trannys ive had that ive popped open are full of mud greese, and water and they still work good

and if you have any questions about the build i could answer them

how did u do it shifter for it

i cut the original shifter at the kidpoint of it and welded a piece of rod into it to etend it, but it is hadr to shift so if i was you, i assume you are using a craftsman? unbolt the plate that has the shift pattern on it and move it as far forward and redrill the holes and bolt it back down. this will give you more of an angle for the shifter and will be easier to shift

ya im using a craftsman and ill just extend it ! is the front end strong with the shocks

on my black one? yes its strong but pointer for that one weld you brackets for the traction bars as low on the axle as posible or when you go into a ditch the front axle will roll and break your shocks then you screwed and need towed home

ill make an explaination video of how i built it later on today or tomarow for you

as for the reasons i built mine haha, but honestly i think you should just drop down the front axle, no matter what im still gonna make the video for you but the suspension on my black on really doesnt work, it gives you a softer and bouncier ride and helps some but dont expect it to work like a truck or atv i will explain the reasons in the video i make

ya but i dont have a welder and i think it would be eaiser to do the shocks but if i have to weld i have to take it to my dads work haha

either way your gonna have to weld, but with the shocks you weld less

ya i no haha im just going to use shocks

alright, ill try and get that vid up for you tomarow night

im uploading the video right now,its 3:33pm but hope it helps

i watched it ! thanks that helps me alot[b]

glad to help, if you need anything explained more i can its hard to explain stuff while holding a video camera like mine where it needs to be far back to see something close