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The BULLFROG Project - lawn tractor with an attitude
This all started out costing a hunnerd bucks, I now still have less than two hundred in it (not including trailer)
Dude was bailing to elsewhere, and selling off his stuff. I heard about his 1999 Craftsmen mower and snatched it up, boy!
15 HP Kohler
6 Speed
42" cut
EZ3 Mulching blade
-and she gitting better all the dang time! I painted over the original headlights because they were not worth a cold beer in hell. Now I can SEE at night!
The hitch was fabricated from a leftover sway-control bar and ball, so it has a dad-gum garden tractor sized hitch ball on it...
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Glenn in TN -- A peek at my used car lot!!
05 PT Cruiser Convertible (RV Toad -- behind Holiday Rambler MH)
04 Jeep Liberty (daughter's)
03 Mazda 6 (son's)
00 Ford Taurus (mother-in-law's -- we are all driving it)
54 F100 (sold! at least the MH has a Ford V10)
I've got news - just for the sake of it I let the clutch/brake pedal snap up on the street, and it hopped right on up!
Now I have a problem though, This led to additional tinkering in the middle of which the governor on it decided to give up and just be a pivot point for the throttle linkage, so now I have to search out info on 15 horse Kohler governors to either fix it, or verify that it won't hurt anything to just run a throttle pedal just like in my Go-Karting days.
But I can truthfully say this:
"This Garden Tractor has been modified in the following manner from it's original form:
It can now pull wheelies in the parking lot."
- and I'm going to have one of my neighbors take a picture of me doing it!
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Think outside of the box - especially if you built it yourself
Thats something new, always heard of cow tipping but never tractor tipping
Tractor tipping -- have you seen the movie Cars?
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Glenn in TN -- A peek at my used car lot!!
05 PT Cruiser Convertible (RV Toad -- behind Holiday Rambler MH)
04 Jeep Liberty (daughter's)
03 Mazda 6 (son's)
00 Ford Taurus (mother-in-law's -- we are all driving it)
54 F100 (sold! at least the MH has a Ford V10)
There used to be HODAKA's, BULTACO's, and outlaw Sprint Cars in half the garages in my neighborhood.
I learned to ride a bike on a five speed Stingray with a banana seat, and I know Bonanza mini-bikes inside and out, brother.
I tweaked a three and a half horse Bonanza to run forty five miles an hour on dirt trails, and you could ride them trails back then...
I done MADE my bones, when I was fourteen.
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Think outside of the box - especially if you built it yourself
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