Car Differential MOWER: Build & Test!

Today on things you should never make .... Someone suggested locking one axle to double the blade speed - thoughts?

You may already know this but Bush Hog blades are mounted on the hub with a single bolt such that they swing freely. So if they hit something solid, they just bounce off and swing out of the way but the unit doesn't stop spinning. Then centrifugal force allows the blade to swing back out to resume cutting.

As a guy that's got 20-30 years on you, I can attest to the need to save on the ole' back! They don't get better, just worse. Fun vid!

The vocalist of the band playing this song sounds EXACTLY like the late great Layne Staley!!!!!!!!!! Cool mod there, Luke!

Don’t go under any tree limbs cause many men have met their end on a tractor with plow’s and other dangerous implements. Be careful

DETH MOWER 3000 can not be stopped. It can not be reasoned with and thats why we love it. Groovy!

You are definitely the OG of classic car/truck YouTube and much appreciated Luke! 😊

As I watch this I can only imagine the conversation on your way out...   Luke: "Honey, is my life insurance paid up?"   Emily: "UMMMM yea... why?"  Luke: "No reason." 🤣😂

Luke, I grew up in a small midwest town living over an auto parts store. So am a huge fan of this type of channel and you can hold your head up and stand with the best of them any day. A true genius!

It just goes to show ya... give an engineer some old car parts, some scrap metal, and a welder, and he will do something ridiculous with it! Luke is a treasure! So glad he is producing content for us all-- just waiting for the next collab with Kevin (Junkyard Digs)! 2 engineers = twice the fun!

Never forget that most of what is on a brand new tractor was once a farmer jerry rigging something together from necessity.

I've thought about doing this in the past but never got around to it.... Glad someone else had the same idea.

I started gathering parts for making a papercrete mixer. Similar idea, but the pinion points up and spins a lawnmower blade inside of a tank for chopping and mixing the papercrete. Those actually work pretty well. I have a Lincoln 9" axle with open diff., one end of a 1/8" thick round fuel tank, about 4 ft diameter and 3 ft tall. And plenty of old drive line ends and lawnmower blades. Helps that I had a welding and fab business for 30 years and still have my tools...Now that I'm retired maybe I'll finally get around to it?

The subtitle-style commentary was on point Uncle Luke. Your thoughts were perfectly representative of reality 😂

Make the blades removable, then you flip it over (pinion bearing up) and mount a solid racing seat with a harness. Have fun

Had a family member build one back in the 1940s from a Model T axle, pulled it with another Model T. Had a contract to mow the local grass airport and roadsides with it for many years.

I think its awesome! I know this tech is often used in manual push mowers but to micky mouse together something like that for a tractor is sheer genius!

This is marginally more dangerous than my grandpa's brush hog off the back of an 8N (at least it had an overrunning clutch and, you know, a deck). (I still have the 2N he left me, though the mower went with the 8N. Great tractors.)

I love it Uncle Luke The new product to promote The Luke Lawn Cheater Bill in Ft Wayne Indiana

As a Professional weed mower I do agree that is Crazy in a Fun kind of way Pre Decapitation. Brush hog style blades are sharpened to have a flat leading cutting edge. With squared corners. That is how those blades cut without quickly becoming Dull. I say that in regards to something you said. Interesting video. Be Safe and Best Wishes from Montana M.H.