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.

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

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!

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!

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

You are definitely the OG of classic car/truck KZfaq 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." 🤣😂

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

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

I feel better knowing that somewhere out in the heartland of America there is a mad genius playing inventor on his farm 😂😂.

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!

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

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!

Looks like good ole American engineering to me!! Love it Luke

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?

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.)

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 am a blessed man for having a differential nearby. Held onto it, saw a thousand ideas, just not this, but so in.

I'd get the tallest gears available for a 7.5, get those blades spinning quick

Luke, I'm glad to see you put those engineering skills to good use. 😄👍 You da man.

Always a pleasure watching you materialize a thought in your head.

All the old farmers should be proud! This is how half of their attachments were invented! Sharpen that perforated angle iron up and get cutting! Nice Job!

Lol this has old-school Monster Garage with Jesse James energy all over it, I love it!

Smaller overall wheel tire combination will result in higher blade tip speed for a better cut. Change the rear end gears to 4.11 gears for MORE blade RPM. I also like the flail blades better for your safety.

I have done this with a golf cart reared and it worked great. My friends said I was crazy and said I was gona kill myself with it. So I stopped listening to them all way around. They always laugh and talk trash to me and every body It’s because they are self centered only. That’s a great mower you gave come up with. Keep up good work bro.

Love the project, I'm sure before you're done, it will be refined and work like a champ. You have a very inventive brain. .

pretty cool idea...I say flip the rear end over, do a 3 blade set up, and do some gearing using different sized pulleys and belts...I think it could become quite interesting.

Hummm.... I wonder if a flail style blade system may not work a little better. Something like swing set chain with "whatever" for weights? That would also be moderately less sketchy if something came off. Chains tend to lose energy faster than solid chunks of steel. 😅

Find a good used mower deck as wide as they make. Use the rotating yoke and attach a pulley to it to be the drive belt going to where the mower deck drive pulley is. Now you have finish mower. Find a brush hog deck that the gearbox is shot and do the same thing. If you can make it where both decks mount same way you will have brush/slasher and a finish mower that will safer to use and we will still be watching future videos.

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.

I love seeing that 64 Galaxie!

I cristen this as the "Fox Blade", because Safety 3rd!

2:45 The dangling necklace bumping up against the bandsaw safety guard is a nice touch!

Glad to see I'm not the only one that ends up doing half of the work on the ground...that's where most of my tools end up anyway!

You just mowed part of your lawn with a spinning death machine, and a supercell makes you decide to stop? I thought you'd be out there with a flashlight powered by a wire hooked to a metal kite.

Funny enough I grew up pulling a mower just like this. That’s awesome to see again.

Like the Alice in Chains. I'm a huge fan.

Put an old hood over the top to keep things from flying up and hitting you.

Man you deserve over a million subs more than most YT car channels that have them, fantastic lawn mower. Just wondering if you could improve it using a 9" diff for heavy duty :)

Love it ❤. I have not one but 8 work benches on my farm/shop and modt of the time I end up working on the floor or wherever except on the bench ....stay safe 👍👍

Free towing Axle mower impressive its actually cutting pretty well with that metal

It's not stupid if it works!

It could double as a road grader!

The view in your shop takes me back. I miss Dad’s ‘64 Galaxie four door hardtop with 289 and C4. His was pale yellow. Well, I miss my ‘56 Chevy, too. And my ‘61 Fairlane, my ‘58 Caddy, and ….. can’t go back. 🙄

Luke's videos are always interesting and different.. mad scientist stuff ... Love it .. thanks Luke....

Amazing lawnmower!! Dangerous yes!! You could machine a rear flange yoke in a way to bolt 4 blades like the brush hog have?!! Will increase the danger level 😂😂

Like Ralph Nader once (or twice?) said: unsafe at any speed 😂

Can’t tell if this makes me less or more depressed. Entertaining for sure; brings me memories of welding random shit w my step dad.

Fun project! I would add a set of drop-down-wheels or casters for moving it around when not mowing.

I wonder if the diff will lubricate itself sufficiently in that position.

Swinging blades on a solid middle may be best when you begin hitting things Luke

The helmet is a really good idea! That way they can tell who's dead. That and I can never get enough of watching people driving a tractor wearing a motorcycle helmet.

Been there done that! My new Kioti has a bumpy seat and no gears to shift, and She's beautiful! ...really, think im in love!

Who cannot click on a video with a name like this

A larger tire will make the blade turn slower so you will have to drive fast to get the blade speed you need

Never thought I'd be into tractors but that is a nice vintage looking tractor.

That is an absolute contraption and I love it.

An open differential would probably be better when you go around corners at slower speeds the blade speed will actually speed up due to the nature of gear reduction in the spider gears

The blades should create an upward draft so that grass is pulled into them, they should be slightly twisted at an angle like a fan's blades.

"I think Imma swap a set of 3.73s into my mower this weekend..." I love this project!

It's quite cool, looks like a rehash of the ancient implements, pulled by horses or oxen. Nice job there! (Defo bigger wheels)

reminds me of the wife spinner 3000

Don't tell your boss. He's going to tell you to productize it!😊

You may call it "redneck engineering", but in northern Scotland we class it as "made on the croft". You use what is at hand, the welds might be a bit rough, it looks a bit Frankenstein-ish, but does it work,? Yes,! Your neighbours will come round, laugh and criticise it, but also suggest a few modifications, and in two years time they will all have built a similar machine and have forgotten about the day they came round and laughed at you. Keep up the good work,! Another difference is, in Scotland it would be painted with "red-oxide" paint, as the wet weather would make it rust, and it covers the bad welds.!

I liked this project. I have a 54 Ford Jubilee. Jim from Leesburg Virginia

Mowwwwterinnnnnn....

My grandfather made one of these out of a dump truck rear end. He put a housing around it and I think it had a slip clutch on it. With real bush hog blades. I never remember seeing it used, it was just one of the many old thing they built “during the war” out of necessity.

Those 8/9N tractors never die, i own one and its still running strong to this day

I love the music you put in your videos, dude sounds exactly like Layne Staley from aic.

I built a death mower from a ford 8.8 rear axle. 3.54 gears were not low enough for blade speed. So, I installed 4.88 gears, it was unstoppable.

Nice! Actually, iffin you swap out to slightly smaller tires, or air down those, and attach small brushes to the tips of the "blade" you could also use it as a lawn sweeper/lane buffer. Cuz, you know, everyone loves a well buffed lane.

And the term "Mad Scientist" takes on a whole new meaning here! lol, good stuff Luke. Love it!! Cheers from Motown/Dearborn.

Luke does another crazy project and still has all his limbs attached at the end: success.

I have been watching youtube almost my entire life andyou have made the BEST intro I have ever seen. I applaud you Sir.

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

The Iowa weather heard you talking and said "am I a joke to you, boy?!" 🤣

My great grandfather made one of these. I remember watching the farmhands use it around barns and tobacco bases. That was back in the 80’s. I don’t know whatever happened to it after getting a real bushhog. Probably went to the sinkhole.

"It seams to be pretty ok" Words to live by.

Built one of these in the 1950' Four hinged blades on a 2 foot circular disc. Brilliant for cutting thistles but highly dangerous with no safety guards but great fun. From the UK. 's

This is a brilliant use of spare parts!

Heck yeah, what the hell it works, glad to see your back to what looks to be 100% and that you still have your 9n.👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

A proper blade some better tires and a real hitch this thing would be perfect for somebody who wants to cut their grass really fast every 3 months! doesn't matter that the diff fluid is upside down and probably not existent also I've never said this before but your own lawn mower needs some 411s! 😅 this is awesome 👍🏽

You're crazy and I love it! I subscribed right as the video started!

When I was a kid living on the farm we had one of those made from a big truck axle. The tires were shredded on the inside from the blade catching stuff and swinging it against the tires.

Most COOL! My cousin and I were always coming up with sh*t like that. We were kids growing up in the middle of nowhere Texas. Our first cars were junk we pulled out of the junk pile. What we didn't have we'd modify from something else, make the part or raid our neighbors junk piles. We had fun. Learned how to be resourceful. and came up with some crazy stuff. Wonder we still got all our fingers, toes, eyes and such. My hearing does suck though.

Learning how to squat and deadlift completely eliminated my back pain. Wider track + 2 blades in an X would make that beast extra deadly.

These are pretty sweet brush hogs when done. Have not seen any one put enough effort into one to really be a finish mower yet. I do advise some kinda of mesh metal shield that you mount behind the seat of the tractor. A few years ago using my 48 ford 2n and a finish mower i had the pto shaft fail and come apart and a better part of 15 lbs of steel hit me in the back of the head when it happened. Fortunately I was ok just a nice gash and a big knot on the back of my head. Now when I do anything with it i have a 2ftx2ft square mesh shield that I made out of a chunk of metal goat panel fence and on each side of it a section of chain link fence offset from the other side by half of the opening so that in the end the biggest opening is only about 1.5 in at most. Its kept a few various things from clubbing me and oh can still see through it

Carb cheater progress?......that setup is brilliant!

Those type brush cutters used to be mounted higher with 2-4 scythe blades on them for mowing hay fields. Also, there was a chain driving the axle from the running tires on ones I've seen pictures of from the early 1900's into the 30's.

Thanks for the video Luke.

Very nice concept . Pretty awesome very sensible .

Well that is pretty interesting 🤔. Some times you surprise us to say the least. Thanks for sharing 😊.

My dad made one of these back in the 60's, we used it for about 10 years.

I once heard a wise man(probably AvE, Canada's only National Treasure (post BTO/The Guess Who)) once say, "There is two types of men when it comes to welding; Welders, and Grinders"

Intro’s to videos never get old!

I grew up pulling a weed slinger built from a 40s two ton rear end. Behind a pickup. Still have it.

That's a pretty cool idea and it seems to work well so good job