Lawnmower

[northplow]

Hi yea all.
I´m looking for a horse drawn lawnmower.
Does anybody know hwo makes them?
Or maybe you have plans for building one you could share?

We are about to place a bid for running maintenance of som big park areas in Blekinge (southern part of Sweden) and we need to know the price of the equipmet. I guess it´s way to expencive to buy and not brake a deal…..Doesent give alot of mony just sitting ther you know..

So, if you can help me I will be very gratefull.

Geir.

[simon lenihan]

geir,
i have seen pics in hastkrafter magasine, so there is someone in sweden operating one doing exactly what you propose to do.
simon lenihan

[northplow]

Yes I know.
There are some home made, and some ar bought in the US. I dont know anybody who makes them here i Sweden,
Non of those operating in Sweden are for sale, so I need to buy one, or make one.
I I’m planning to contact some of them who have these and “steal” the concept.

But, in the meantime im interested to see how they actually look like.

[CharlyBonifaz]

a lawnmower like this one?
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/5696508/Koppeln_nachmaehen_mit_Vorderwagen_und_Spindelmaeher
elke

[northplow]

Yes, somthing like that.
Other looks like a triangular frame with 5-6 smaller cylindrical mowers mounted under.
The one on the movie has huge cylinders….But really efficient.

I know that there are golf green clippers based on hydraulic powered mowers.
I think that for proffessional application, the use of old manual home mowers will not last for long. I am thinking of a way to convert an old hydraulic unit by fitting a chain sprocket to the axle, and another sprocket on a stub axle driven by a wheel. The professional units are 80-90 cm wide, so I will need at max 3 of them overlapping each other.

I’ll keep searching.

Geir

[Carl Russell]

Mascot Sharpening in Pennsylvania USA, makes some very good models. I don’t expect you would want to import them, but their designs may interest you.
Mascot Sharpening, Elam Fisher,434 Newport Rd., Ronks, PA 17572 717-656-6486

Carl

[karl t pfister]

The mowers in the video are jacobsen worthington golf course rough and fairway mowers, they are ground drive simple to operate and work on,they were considered the Cadillac till the hydraulic era , but there are lots still in use . For sharpening golf courses have a turning grinder , that requires the reel to be broken down and mounted in the machine , that’s what course workers do in winter . The video used a 3 gang with 2 horses and that is what I did ,but the make 5 and 7 gangs as well . If I was looking to get the grass cut to 3″ to less than 1″ I would go that way or motorize and go disc mower, or a horse drawn sickle bar works too .I am done reinventing the wheel so to speak , the technolgy is out there . A fellow in Belgium who got some park land converted to hay land ,best of both worlds ,good luck Karl

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