all mighty pushmower

hey guys awhile back i got a self propelled honda push mower for free with a bent crank. i wanted something me and my friend could screw around on in my small back yard at home in the city, so i stated to build it into a little gokart, the deck was caste iron so i had some troubles but it worked out and i made steering and you just sit on the motor, and didnt go fast at all maybe walking speed but was fun and pulled some massive wheelies. started off like this


we mudded it


a realy good wheely


well the steering is all screwed up on it and the tires were small and it didnt do worth shit in the snow and not so great in the mud so i started building a mini gokart awhile back and had the frame all built. i put two and two together and started building the monster pushmower gokart.


the back ale mock up

5hp honda

the driveshaft




the full conversion is almost complete. it went from little 6 inch tires to 15,s it has a 3 speed gearbox and goes faster with the 15's on it now. im gonna fab up a deck and put fenders and make a little hood for it so it will look like a mini tractor. im gonna offroad it and it does about stock tractor speed so i wont get too left behind when we all go mudding let me know what you think

dude thats fucking the smartest thing ive seen!! thats sweet! good job! cant wait to see it complete!

thanks man, i get bored and come up with ideas haha, sometimes the slowest and stupidest things can be the funnest i hope it turns out like i want it to

That thing is cool:)

That is pretty cool - something to mess around with. Reminds me of an article in Popular Mechanics - these two freinds used an old shopping cart and added lawntractor wheels with a 9HP honda motor and made a wheelie machine. Whole thing cost less then $100 to build.


I wouldve never thought of something like that - im surprised the stock push mower drive wheels had any traction at all . An upgrade could be adding 4 AG tires to it and make it a mini monster.

haha you read my mind, yea im gonna eventualy put mini ag tires on it, but these were they only two tires i have at home, ha of coarse i have the two tires with the crappiest tread on them, but owell im gonna be putting a snorkel on it too so it can go through some deep water holes in the woods

i can't wait to see that thing done it should look so awesome

got some fenders made up i didnt take my time on them so theres bug gaps and stuff but ima use some fiberglass and patch then over and finish welding them up
push mower stripped








my moms laptop keeps freezing so i cant put a video together, but im gonna build a hood, put a different axle on the front, and im redoing the exhaust, and some more little things

i knew a guy who did the same thing but his went pretty fast, it was flippen scary as all get out to drive

just some more pics, added foot rest, welded up fenders and new exhaust, really sorry i need to get the vids i got of it up. i am gonna put a tractor front axle, and make it pivot, and put a hood on it, i might take a craftsman hood i have and cut it and shrink it to fit, or ill make another hood im not sure yet

i finaly got the time to put a video together, it isnt much but https://www.youtube.com/user/redzz02?feature=mhum comment, rate, and subscribe thanks

haha just messing around a little today

Oddly enough, looking at it, it has nearly the same setup as an ATV- motor is just in front of you, partially underneath . I bet if you turned the motor sideways so the shaft drive is to the side, youd be able to hook either a sprocket or go kart clutch to it and run a straight rear axle , along with being able to change gear ratios.

actualy, that wouldnt work that great, that shaft coming out of the side is a little small, and i think it doesnt spin as fast as the bottom shaft does, and if i did turn it sideways and used sprockets, id only have one gear im not looking to go fast, im just looking for a small tractor look alike to romp on if all else is broke, if you know what i mean

but what i was thinking of putting a sprocket on that shaft above the i put on the tranny and putting a sprocket on that to get a lower gear ratio to get more speed, but today the clutch engagement is starting to grip real hard and you bring them front tires off the ground sometimes even if you lean forward really far

hey guys, I have broken the drive shaft on it as you h=guys might have seen on my videos and i cant seem to get the coupler that attaches to the input shaft on the the rearend, so i was thinking of putting a 3hp side shaft motor onto it with some sort of homemade gearbox with reverse and a live axle to run 18 inch tires on it. i would gear it to have a speed a little bit faster than what it is now, if anyone has an idea to build a gear box, gear system that runs side shaft to side shaft give me ideas or what you think

my drive shaft


front axle


pivoting front axle


and id say my drive shaft works

sorry id have a video up but my other computer isnt working right now so as soon as it gets up and running again ill post the video

video is up in a couple minutes nothing special

how the project going i would really like to see what it looks like when its finished

hey man im sorry to say this has been a long ago scraped project, id love to build another one, but the roll pin kept sheering in the drive shaft so i tore it down and i only have the motor left from it

Dang, sure was pretty good at dougnuts. Im thinking about doing one with a normal tractor transmission and real short wheel base like yours.

the first part of that video was sped up but it was still good at donuts in the snow, it only went like 5 mph but was really fun

I would probably speed mine up to about 15 or 20 mph and make some brakes for the front for burn outs in the mud. Got any ideas for me since you've done one before??