World's Fastest Mower Powered By Jet Engine

World's Fastest Mower Powered By Jet Engine ENGINES Engines 17-3-20 If you don't like mowing your yard, you'll like this jet-powered riding mower that'll let you speed through the job at 45 mph and with enough ear-splitting noise to let the whole countryside know what you're up to. Art Evans, manufacturer of Dixie Chopper mowers, mounted a 150 hp. jet turbine out of a CH47 Chinook helicopter on the back of one of his stock mowers. "When we take it to a show, everyone with a pulse knows we're there. It rattles your teeth when you start it up," says Evans, who's been making zero-turn mowers for 19 years. He put the mower together as a promotional gimic but says he's run it at speeds up to 45 mph on a speed track. He says it could go a lot faster but that it wouldn't be safe. It took Evans and his sons a month to build the jet-powered mower. "After we built it we took it out to the high school football field and mowed it in less than 15 min.," he says. "It makes a lot of noise but it's smooth to operate. No vibration at all." Although Evans has no plans to put a jetpowered mower into production, he jokes that you can special order one. "Just add $20,000 to your Dixie Chopper order," he told FARM SHOW.

To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click here to register with your account number.