I agree no crappy music and no body talking just to hear them selves talk

Thanks for the video, love to see old lawn equipment restored, nice work!!!!

thats what he said

I think it's becoming apparent how much chaff ie personal branding mugging or flexing or politicising goes on in KZfaq content. I don't know if its because of Covid 19 or what, but..I"ve become somewhat irked by celebrities clamoring for your attention by any means necessary. Lately, I've been searching for content just like this...No talking, straight to the content, I learn something. Boom subscribed.

I like it

Where are you located. I have a 1986 Snapper self propel key start *option walk behind that I wanted to restore with my dad but he has fallen ill as I. Sadly I cant bear to just toss it so it sits ou on my deck. I replaced it with an exact minus keyless start. That was never a good thing anyway. It's the old type with the raised white letters, steel wheels white handle white bag(which I let go of before it broke like a moron. it just needed stitching up. Anyway. I am in the Houston area

This restoration, along with the tools and time needed, costs more than buying new.

@@regeleleu8814 Kind of missing the point. Doing what you love or like to isn't always about the money. It's his time to do with as he pleases.

This mower is heavy, cumbersome and doesn’t cut very well. You can buy a new “Huskie” brand push mower that weighs less than the tires and rims of this thing and cuts infinitely better at Walmart for $180. He spent more on parts. Not to mention disposable products like cleaners, lubricants, solvents and paints. And probably close to 100 hours of skilled labor. You could probably buy a consumer grade stand up zero turn mower for what was put into this.

This isn't a lawnmower, its a brush cutter. It's for clearing brambles and shrubs

Same here

Because like Almazan Kitchen, Primitive Technology, Bertram - Craft and Wilderness, Liziqi, & Mr. Cickadeee... not a damn word one is used to pollute it. -Former 11b4p 82nd Abn.

I skipped ahead to try and speed things up only to find myself immediately going back. Great subject material and fantastic editing

@@soldtobediers I watch most of those you named, I would add "My Mechanics" right along with those!

True and yes awsime

The literal definition of lecture involves being spoken to. This guy never said a word lol.

No

and No Stupid music.

@@vintagegassmallenginerepai3565and no stupid drama

lots of it was edited out

@@mootoast8614 it was probably a joke but I’m not entirely sure

@@mootoast8614 its a joke lol

This kind of work and detailed in more like a week or so of work depending upon if he's got a regular job

@@ytho3047 r/woooooosh

Wow, so good you lost 20 minutes. 👍

@@alexanderm2976 I’d say he lost 80 minutes of his life to a lawn mower

+1

...and that robin's-egg blue on the gearbox cover, most soothing color ever. I bet it keeps you calm when the brush roots fight you.

I had no idea what ASMR was until I saw this comment... and looked it up. You have made my life complete. Thank you.

Cringe

@@solomyngrundy1968 it's not asmr

Definitely asmr

@ Just look at who's manning the control rooms for today's space flight industry... millennials. Talking to rovers on Mars, launching satellites, Google's Project Loon, Wi-Fi balloons circle the globe at 60,000 feet ... jobs all heavily filled by millennnials The team with the woman who first photographed a black hole...millennials The first graviton wave detected... ? The local observatory hosted a talk with one of the lead astrophysicists on the team at which I sat front and center. It was a mind blowing smart young woman and yup, a millennial. The average age of the health care worker responding to the pamdemic... millennial. Can you code? Who do you think is blasting out all the new programming... millennials. I see these people go back and forth on socmedia and I kno I'm on dumb mtherefer Just search Coding Camp and take a gander at who all attends. You can count on two hands those over 40, cuz the rest are all millennials. Engineers architects and teachers... jobs majority filled by millennials Bah, you're just hateful and dismissive... but boomer gotta get woke. Better yet just gtf out of the way, you're time to be productive is thru, you're old and can no longer adapt - wasting the air you breathe needed by the millennials But remember this... when you're old and feeble in a nurisng home languishing your dirty diaper, your already paltry funding will be slashed once more and then again by.... yup millennials And they wont give one fk about you, the way you taught them by not giving a fk about them... demeaning and insulting every chance you get... for being millennials Payback and karma are both a bitch and there wont be dikk you can do about it... if the rona don't get you first

Okay you got me on that 😂

lol

He is good but not a magician. 😀

Adrenochrome... Google it if your not a Democrat.

Lol

Jealous...because they can't!

I have heard that there are software "bots" out there that do nothing but race through YT videos and give thumbs down, regardless. Heck it's not far off to see a man jump in the river to save two children from drowning then drowning himself followed by a thousand thumbs down. I have seen YT videos uploaded under two minutes that already had thumbs down. Takes a little of the anger away.

@@tomperkins5657 Sadly, this is true. A few of the videos of the funeral procession for Lt. Aaron Allen [Fallen Indiana policeman] had been flooded like that hours after they were published.

It was all the birds at the start that were interrupted

I would say because of the colors lol

PimptatoPCs didn’t realize it was that long told my mom be there in 20 as most gaming videos are 20-30 min and now I just finished yikes

Me too. I don't even watch car videos of more than 40 minutes! But like you, I was enjoying it's restoration. A wonderful job.

Man they hooked us on this one ,long but worth it to watch it .

Same here, i was just going to glance at it and save for later. Instead watched the whole thing at one sitting, was worth it.

😒 No. He is just fixing something broken.

@@chopin65 with the right 🧰 ‘s

So you are a yr older then my mum (she was born in 1966)

some things are beyond restoration :)

Plastic surgery, my friend :D

William Borgeson I wold like to see my Honda run after 60 years not gonna happen

So your 56 years old

Jacob Nolan No, I’m subscribed to him. I love this guy’s work.

STFU Jake

@@husker91 no reason to get pissy over a question kid

Yeah i watch a lot of engine/ repair videos hence why it'd be recommended. Good videos besides this too.

Jacob Nolan yes

SAME I SWEAR ON MY LIFE

All the old stuff is getting thrown out and it’s sad

Back then, things where made to last.

I liked this comment alot especially that I'm 9 and they history was cool so I subscribed:)

That's freaking cool, some things are worth saving.

And today a Ryobi lasts 6 months if you are lucky.

Nice... I have a Honda lawn mower that was given to me by my neighbor before he passed away. It's been sitting in my garage for 15 years now. Never used it. He had it sitting in his garage since 1979 and had sed he only used it 3 seasons... Everything is original. Maybe some day I'll sell it to someone who collects these toys... Or just keep it for years to come.

Me too, imagine walking into a store and asking for a carb repair kit for a 1960s mower

ya me to

Did u find out?

It’s called 3D printing

@@4.8slow no

Everything has become so disposable. 🙁

Shows clip of him hammering off the muffler* 14:18

Zachatttack310 keep in mind you really can’t take it off with something else

That’s true when it comes to things like this.

Zachatttack310 yep, I do wish there were tools for this kind of thing

@@brokemexican7028 Air chisels are freaking magic for that kind of thing, just have to be careful because they're hard to control sometimes

I skipped 75%. 😆

Same

Me too... I watched all of it ! Damned caronavirus! 😁

I skipped to the very end, just wanted a pic of how it turned out lol.

Same

Thank you :)

Awesome restoration I have just restored a Jacobsen Javelin.

That's dedication man, keep it up!

It's like porn to a tinkerer!

Un trabajo de restauracion.magnifico...esa maquina....eran otros tiempos....

Same, my dad neglected his lawn care machines and I restored them. I graduated from lawn mowers to mini motorcycles (pocket bikes), to real 4 cylinder bikes (Kawasaki ZZR/Honda VFR800) to finally doing all major work to my BMW Z3. Nothing makes me happier than repairing a machine and hearing that baby purr to life on the first try :) Happy fixing buddy 🍻

Andy H - Amen brother, thats why i enjoy these types of videos. As a kid i would always hunt around the verge-side waste (1/4 yearly collection), i found weed wackers, leaf blowers, mowers etc that would all ultimately meet their demise back in my Dads shed haha. That's where i started, and in a few months im going to start my new career which is all founded on my interest in mechanics. I guess we always hold dear the simple things from our past :)

It's the kinda thing that'll last that long 😂

Back to the shed until this gentleman's grandson gives it a go.

Na, AOC said we only have 12 more years

lol that'll happen for sure...all of our 4 strokes and 2 stroke engines will be at their wit's end and well end up watching them being restored 🤣🤣🤣

Who will be selling the new old stock parts then?

i dont get it... please explain

@@logertgogert3227 the employees at the engine company were freaking out at all the parts needed to rebuild this old engine.

I don't think that there is any Jenkins in Brigs & Stratton any more..maybe there is Xin Yui, Long Cock or something like that.. there is no Brigs Stratton manufacturing in America any more.Not to bright Americans,not to bright.

@@sasak9794 Sad but true, but as to being bright, it was just a joke. Any way great video. Brought back some fond memories for me.

@@Jeff-jr3sg ooooooooohhh my bad thx XD

*HMMMMMMMM*

Perhaps

It's Daggerwin from all the Farming sim 19 videos

yeah but it's great though you don't find the things that he rebuilds anymore people just throw them out I buy old tools off of eBay and Amazon all the time you don't find the things that you rebuild anymore people just told them out I buy old tools off of eBay and amazon overtime from jigsaw to heavy duty drills circular what are aluminum or Steel they never break F-250 60 years they still work

@@timjackson2937 yes, absolutely! That's okay, we can have the good stuff ( when we do find it) while others throw their money away.

TrueBlueEG8 small engine work is actually really fun once you have been in a shop for a couple months.

You’d think he would have at least honed the cylinder some to help the rings seat in better.

@@e-racer4673 I think there was something different about that cylinder.

@@e-racer4673 I think he called it a cool boar. I really don't know what that Stands for. I think it did not have a cylinder sleeve. Anywho you find out let me know to. Take care

As a small business landscaper who fixes his own equipment, this kind of thing is right up my alley.

Actually, Dr. Who and K-9!

I agree. Back when this thing was built, you expected store bought goods to last. Now it's 2 year life cycle to keep the sale numbers up!

Things were always built cheaply. Some examples of cheaply built things just happen to survive. That whole notion that old things were better is just plain wrong.

@@dhphoto businesses have always look for ways to bring products to the consumer while maximizing profit, that is no secret. But you are confusing that with businesses using technology to make products less serviceable and increase their planned obsolescence. A lawn mower made in the last 20 years would have corroded so much that you would not be able to restore much from it, most parts would have disintegrated. Do you think that with the advancements in technology we should not have all cars run for 200000 miles guaranteed, just by doing regular oil changes and changing spark plugs? It can be done, but you'll never see it. If anything, the throw away concept grows more each day.

@@hectorg.7282 How many people have you seen Throw away there 10 year old electric cars? we (world) make cheaper/better and longer lasting junk now than we ever did in history..you want crap buy a 1969 dodge charger to feel that old 50 year death trap feel.

@@hectorg.7282 most vehicles do last 200k miles tard. thats a low number for my standards. i have 356k on my silverado. stock motor and trans. only done minor jobs like oil, tyre, and fuel pump jobs

Aerodynamic sure, but noise is horrendous and it dosent seem to cut much grass :(

Probably weights the same too lol

@@turkustreetview1445 It has cut the grass, only it doesn't pick it up.

Yeag

Im surprised it didn't have 'fins' to make it look faster.

From one N. Carolinian to another, I agree totally Paul. That is why I have a barn full of David Bradleys, and other 80 year old garden tractors.

UK Expat in Vermont, I love getting old equipment back on it's feet. Heck of a lot cheaper than new too. This summer's project is the old RotoTiller and my Mother in laws old generator + DR

I’m going to guess your age. But I’ll be willing to guess your grandparents went through the depression and your parents continued some of those habits of saving everything. I’m the same way. I remember my grandfather had a box of old bike inner tubes. He kept them in case he found a use for them. Lol. My dad kept everything because you could always repurpose some stuff or re use it. Mind you they weren’t hoarders, everything was organized. But I find myself doing the same thing. If something stops working, if I can’t fix it, I’ll strip it of any useable parts, screws, washers, capacitors, transformers...what ever is salvageable. Lol.

There's a big difference between keeping stuff to fix, and keeping stuff you might fix. Othwise it sits in your yard and rusts truly becoming junk

Same! I kept not watching it because it was over an hour long and tonight finally decided to just watch the beginning. Over an hour later ...

I had ads 🤷‍♂️ didn't mind them, I can hardly imagination how much editing this took

I get commercials every 10 minutes

The best technicians with 30+ years experience and $100,000 in tools sitting next to them still end up with extra screws. Just throw them away.

That's a brush hog Doesn't work that good for grass

lmao XD

You cut the grass, you mow the lawn.

W5

I'm a landscaper. This is what I do all day, every day.

Nope. Any sane person would spend 90 minutes watching this.

@@sramoore0075187 That's right. It's hard to beat watching any master craftsman.

I am watching a movie as I watch this. Had to turn the volume off on the movie. It was distracting😂🤣😂🤣

Say what !!!

Nope I’d rather watch this anyday.

Great perspective - You nailed it.

If it's lucky! Don't you worry about it though....it'll buff out

Ive seen much newer engines where the carb is placed above the exhaust. I always worry but on 2 cycle its slightly less of a problem.

Heated carb for those cold fall days! 🙂

illogicalGhost Is it not wonderful🤓😊

Cute

How can you have a bad day with Kirby

same dude, same! :)

I could use a bush whacker like that, actually.

Yeah because it's 60 years old

60 years old and working like new

PETER DEE I was thinking the same thing it would leave a lot cleaner cut . After all that hard work I sure would have taken that extra step to sharpen them!

I was thinking the same thing. Also, it looked like there were a couple of blades (teeth?) missing from the disc.

I had a large property and when I bought a brush cutter, I was told that brushcutters don't need sharp blades as they are really just beating the brush into submission.

@@rhyansimmons2691 yea but after you doing it up enough it's worth it to sharpen it

Maybe he did . His job was great, but the mower is an old project itself, We shouldn’t expect much. It is more about fun than efficiency.

IKR. Freshly mixed concrete pours out faster.

That's when machines were machines and they were built to last that's the good old days now you buy junk to be able to throw it away for good price $3,200 and it might last you a year if you're lucky I'll be one of those guys to make sure I keep it running for you I'll make sure I charge you a fair price though

Michael b I mean this Engine also had to be restored from the ground up so...

@@-Ninnux- I've been restoring vehicles small engines houses historical homes you name it I can build it restore it bring it back to its original Beauty If You Can Dream It I can do it I don't do too much of it anymore I pick and choose my jobs no because it broke my back about 10 years ago from falling off of roof it had 300 year old slate on it and we were replacing it piece by piece I had a nice little slip and slide and had to relearn how to walk but I still do a little bit of work here and there we can group up I'm in the US where are you LOL I hope you're staying safe in this crazy world and in this quarantine all is well be safe

@@michaelb.7800 Too bad for you, my dad still works on our record players and lawnmowers and weedeaters an such to keep them going. We ain't payin' nobody to fix our stuff up, lol.

Thank you very much!

Not surprised to find you here, captain!

Cayla Young same just happened to me just now

From one point of view yes, but back then everything was primitive and crude; metal wasn't nearly as refined, crude manufacturing processes, crude welding, they used thick and heavy parts (due to metal & design being crude). Once you understand metallurgy and appreciate modern manufacturing, you won't see things as being all "rosy" back then. Also, I would hardly call this thing beautiful. Personally I would rather have a "lite" functional lawnmower that's easy to clean&maintain, not something that looks like a freaking spaceship.

I've repaired stuff for 50 years and this man did not make ONE error. He is ONE talented individual. AMAZING.