RUSTY SCRAPYARD MOWER - Will it Run?

Your narrated videos are brilliant. It is wonderful to hear what is going on in the mind of a dedicated engine restoration expert.

Watching now and so far amazing video dag! Finished and glad it came together pretty simple. The cross hatching looked really good also

This is awesome.. i love seeing old machines run again... i restored an old gas pump thst had been sitting in my backyard for 50 years.. i just got it working back in April...

Dude. I'm so totally not into gardening or lawns in any way whatsoever, but I do love it when people restore or re-use things that can be saved, especially in this disposable society we seem to exist in. I also thoroughly enjoy watching someone with real knowledge and skill do their thing. You are convincingly competent, cool, calm and a joy to listen to. Thank you and keep 'em coming 👍. My two penn'orth - I would replace that drive belt, sort the charging, maybe repair the rot-spots, and then totally leave that glorious machine ratted up 😁. Just rub it down a bit as is and clear coat it. Wasteland ride-on 😁 👉👉👉. 😎

thankyou for giving good lighting and clear details on your work, and its a nice thing to hear you tinkering and speaking of what your doing or working on. thank you very much for your good work :)

I like all your videos, narrated and silent. Keep them coming!! I had an old 8 hp Briggs, flat head. Couldn't get the flywheel screen off so just cut a round hole in it and then spun started it with my half inch drill by squirting a little gas into the spark plug hole BEFORE doing a bunch else to it!

I have a similar type and been having a problem getting the throttle linkage right but looking at yours I may have the solution. Glad to see it wasn't trashed. Great video.

I prefer the narrated version. With other, non-narrated videos, it seems like I am always trying to guess what they are doing. I watch these for the tutorial as well as entertainment value so I like to know what someone is doing and why. On a side note, I clicked on this video totally by chance and immediately recognized the voice from one of my favorite simulated farming related channels. When I double checked to see if I was right, it turns out I had watched your restoration videos before but did not recognize you because it was one of your non-narrated versions. You produce some very good, entertaining videos. Thank you!

Love your videos dag, you give me courage to repair my own rust buckets

Great format for your videos. I love these so much. Just really talented mechanic work every time. Funny, but you've taught many of us so much. I've fixed a couple lawnmowers just using the knowledge you share. Thanks for the videos and the help over the years of watching your channel.

There's always a high degree of personal satisfaction when resurrecting an old neglected piece of machinery like this, no matter how many different times you've done it, you inspire people to want to give it a try themselves, congrats on getting it to work, makes more sense to reuse it rather than scrap it 👍

Right now, I’m inspired. Next I’m gonna take my old destroyed lawnmower and my tools to restore it. Great video man, keep it up!!

Machinery restorer another great video yes you inspired myself to save scrap lawnmower and get them going I have five Briggs and Stratton ,a tecumseh and a Mountfield push on cheers

That mower is almost exactly like the one my father mowed with for years, including the rust. The decal said "Murray 8", but it's the same mower. We used it in our lawn care business with the original engine, but we switched that for a 12 HP Briggs. It got new deck bearings, and it's blades ran as smooth as I've ever seen. We never painted it, and I always thought it was funny that a mower that looked that rough could do so good of a job.

Exactly what I was looking for...great explanation of each process! I have a Dixon 3303 ZTR, which is in really great shape (body, tires) and I thought I could just put in a new battery, do an oil change, etc., but the B&S 10.5 hp engine flywheel will not move. Hopefully, after replacing the circuit breaker, getting the gas out of the system (oil smells like gas), replace the gas shutoff, I can get it started. Really hoping I don't need a new engine. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

OMG we have the Sears/Craftsman version of this....My dad got it from our scoutmaster almost 25-27 years ago. First project me and my dad really worked on together. We fixed the engine, the deck and then repainted it. To this day it still runs and is used at my parents second home in NH. I believe we still have the belt part numbers written on the wall in our shed. The 10HP motor will never die.

I will never understand how some people can leave a perfectly good piece of machinery out to be ruined by the elements...rust weld and glue weld....two new terms for my vocabulary! Excellent work and the narrative does provide context, detail, and a much needed human element of understanding as well as a priori reasoning. Be well and stay healthy.

Fantastic work getting the engine turning over & machine up & running sir. Brilliant content also. Superb ! 👏🏻👍🏻

A perfect video of restoration. I like the narration as you get more information. Although it's not a Westwood, it's helped me to restore mine. (I have 9.)

My parents bought me the Murry edition back in mid 80s to cut the grass. Brings back some good memories.