mini tracked wheelbarrow or dumper In the USA?

[boggen]

looking at various riding lawn mowers over the years. most of them all have a hydrostatic transmission, and then a differential for rear tires. and then actual turning wheels up on the front of the riding mower. for riding mowers, a differential makes sense.

looking at some "zero turn mowers" is a different story. there is no differential. just 2 hydrostatic transmissions, one for each main drive wheel in rear of the machine. and then you have gauge wheels on the finishing mower deck/s. a zero turn would operate much like a "track" machine. looking through some websites. they make L shape instead of a large O body shaped hydrostatic transmissions. and most of the L shaped hydrostatic transmissions were labeled just for the purpose of a "tracked" machine.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Not wanting to be critical or anything, and I have followed all the design ideas with a lot of interest (it got me all enthused that I'd like to have a go at it myself ) Then I got to thinking, What's the real task, It's to mow the lawn. So why not just go for a zero turn mower and attach RC actuators to all of the controls. I'm sure there would be a way to cobble together a single joystick control.

From my way of looking at it you are spending a lot of time designing something centered around moving your flail mower. But the real task is to mow the lawn. With a zero turn you get the maneuverability, wide turf tires would spread your weight and reduce rutting, remove seat&ROP gives you low height, Width of cut would be only disadvantage, might take longer but that just gives you extra seat time.:thumbsup:

Sell the existing flail mower to cover some of the cost.


PS your dad has just learned that when you retire you have less time to do all those things you had put aside for your retirement.

 

[superfly611]

i know what your saying but i was wanting to cut the areas around the field and theres areas a regular mower wont go. plus i was hoping to make it able to do different tasks such as snow plowing and other things. its a project we are doing together. he can build pretty much anything im just getting ideas for him. we were going to ad controls to one of the mowers we have and still might. but like i said some areas are just not passable.