Lawn Vac Converted To Pto-Drive

Lawn Vac Converted To Pto-Drive FARM HOME Lawn Mowers 31h 38 Quinton Tschetter Oskaloosa Iowa has about one acre of lawn to maintain with a lot of maple trees He wanted to use his old Cyclone lawn vac to clean off the leaves but the 8 hp Briggs & Stratton engine was worn out and he didn’t want to spend the money for a new one So he converted the lawn vac to pto-drive off his Kubota garden tractor       “It works great and makes fall cleanup much easier ” says Tschetter who made the conversion several years ago “I already had a 2-wheeled Deere yard cart and converted it to a 4-ft long 3-ft wide by 4-ft high dump trailer The only part I kept from the lawn vac was the blower ”     The 23 hp Kubota tractor is equipped with a 3-pt hitch and a pair of pto shafts – one underneath the tractor that drives a belly-mounted mower and the other on back Tschetter built an angle iron bracket that attaches to the 3-pt and also supports a driveshaft It’s connected to a 12-in pulley which belt-drives a smaller 2-in pulley that operates the blower Tschetter attached new 6-in dia flexible poly hose from the tractor’s mower deck to the blower and from the blower to the trailer   He also added a hitch on back of the bracket to pull the trailer “The dump trailer has sheet metal sides and is capped off by a 90 percent shade cloth that’s covered by a tarp The back side of the trailer is open to keep dust from blowing onto the driver ” notes Tschetter      Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Quinton Tschetter 2379 Hwy 92 Oskaloosa Iowa 52577 ph 641 660-9765; Qct1944@gmail com

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