Lawnboy18
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OK... Let's See Your Mower!
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Let me guess. You discharged grass onto it! :licking:
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Lol close enough! The mower was beside a portion of grass that has grown more than a feet! So, I just took the trimmer to cut it and raked off the clippings resulting in burrying the poor mower.
This is an old survivor. It's a 1968 B33-24 FSP Yazoo Big Wheel mower. I've used it since it was new. It's on the forth engine. Still use it a lot. You can see the deck is about gone but plan on rebuilding it over the winter.
It originally had an Iowa made cast iron 498 Clinton which I think was the best engine ever on it! Then a Wisconsin Robin EY18-3W. Then a Briggs 5hp I/C, and now it has a Kohler CS-6 engine which is a rebadged Yamaha built in Japan. Towards the end of Clinton, Yazoo was one of the biggest OEM users of Clinton engines. Clinton sold out and the factory was moved to Singapore and the quality was never there anymore. Later on Clinton ended up in China.
It was the first mower that I used when I started cutting grass on the side. That was about 1972.
I've had to replace stuff on it over the years and kept some old parts like blades and rollers and blade adapters etc. to keep it running. It has always been the go-to mower when I had to cut the roughest stuff
out there. It will cut grass as best as any mower I've ever used as it has a blade speed way over 19000 FPM! I've cut cliffs with it, had to let go and let it fall to bottoms of ravines with me in tow! Saved me a lot of weedeater time!
Thanks!!!
It originally had an Iowa made cast iron 498 Clinton which I think was the best engine ever on it! Then a Wisconsin Robin EY18-3W. Then a Briggs 5hp I/C, and now it has a Kohler CS-6 engine which is a rebadged Yamaha built in Japan. Towards the end of Clinton, Yazoo was one of the biggest OEM users of Clinton engines. Clinton sold out and the factory was moved to Singapore and the quality was never there anymore. Later on Clinton ended up in China.
It was the first mower that I used when I started cutting grass on the side. That was about 1972.
I've had to replace stuff on it over the years and kept some old parts like blades and rollers and blade adapters etc. to keep it running. It has always been the go-to mower when I had to cut the roughest stuff
out there. It will cut grass as best as any mower I've ever used as it has a blade speed way over 19000 FPM! I've cut cliffs with it, had to let go and let it fall to bottoms of ravines with me in tow! Saved me a lot of weedeater time!
Thanks!!!
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Stevie-Ray
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Welp, finally jumped on the tractor bandwagon, and it's about time. Used it today a few hours after delivery. My first rider, but until these past few years, I had nothing to cut but a small lot.
MaxSchau182
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Woah I had the same back in the day when I lived in Maryland. I had to move to Australia and leave it behind though... Such a waste...
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Thats interesting that your from Australia. Part of the Kerr family that was the original owners of Yazoo moved to Australia and built a similar big wheel mower there. They were called Red Roo's. I think it was at a place called Itawumba (sp?).
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My father was having the same one when we were living in Poras, but recently I changed my location and moved on to Melbourne where I don't have need of that so left it over there. It's now in my memories just like my father.:frown:
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