Sitting 17+ YEARS! Can We Drive it Over 1 Mile HOME? (Abandoned Mower Revival)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- This 1993 Murry 12.5 hp riding lawn mower was left at an abandoned property after being pilfered for parts. Now i need to get it running to see if we can drive it home like George jones . This 12.5 horse Briggs and stratton lawn tractor was left behind on the abandoned property i bought. rather than scrap it lets see if this pile of junk will run, drive, and mow again. First we have to deal with a mower that won't start, if we can get it running we will see if we can make it home and make it cut
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I have no clue why this is so entertaining but it is!! Im waiting on the next one!! Also don't forget that other mower in the shed behind the main shop!!!
Thanks man. Means a lot. May not seem like much but I am working real hard on the editing to keep it fun.
@@betweenthesharksgarage Oh its real fun im stoked for the next video! Whats your upload schedule by the way?
@@Ericccc_1 thanks man I am trying to keep them coming every sunday, but I ll stumble eventually
@@betweenthesharksgarage Alright ill be waiting for the next! Also that other mower in the very broken fallen shed is a old toro and those things are super reliable and beasts! I would get that one going its better then your murrays.
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Ryian 🌨 Man you have been keeping it very amusing with your editing but more to the point, by your witty musings.
Some aged actor once young working with Hoffman could nary in 20 sequals of "Mission Impossible" do this that you so do wheel, nor be as humorous impromtu.
Yeah this episode garnered five 's out of 5 for editing production, screenplay on the fly, and mechanical aptitude.
Come on bud , get the Datsun running.
Stand by. I am dying to. But I have a dozen classic cars and not one of them helps cut my lawn
You got it going great job man
thanks man
Anybody who references good ole George Jones in their video is alright in my book. Good work.
Even the greatest master once knew nothing about that which they have mastered. As long as it's fun and you're learning something it's always worthwhile. At least some level of fun. Can't knock saving money by making the old useable once again either.
That's how I started wrenching on motors; fixing an old tractor and tinkering with it! Love seeing one get fixed up and used again.
Right on it’s a lot more fun than I thought it would be
Glad you enjoyed getting it Running and enjoying cutting the grass and Beautiful German Shepherd
I’m ready to get back to hot rodding, but I will say I have enjoyed this a lot more than I thought. I think there’s an instant gratification quality to it. Like yeah I took a couple days but A car build can take years …. Makes me understand the will it run craze, there’s really nothing to lose by trying. Yeah the German Shepherd’s real sweet she’s a rescue. We are fostering. She does need to find a forever home in case you are interested lol
i dont know why but its great to follow this weird adventure
i appreciate that ... it is a weird adventure... but it was pretty great
Nice job Ryan, one bite at a time and you’ll get there.
I must say that ride back home looked like fun, also those yellow tool cupboards are killer!!
The tool cabinets are really cool
This brings back memories. My first riding mower was a Murray like that but older that me and my dad salvaged from my neighbor. It didn’t have a 6 speed it had a high and a low speed. So I had bought another house and had remodeled everything including the yard. Short story long that thing would not cut level. It always cut lower on the left side. So one Sunday morning after making a couple passes and still cutting uneven I got pissed off and went and got a Sunday paper, pulled out the Sears ad and they had a mower sale. I called the number on my Sears card and checked my available credit told the old lady I’m going to Sears to buy myself a new mower and so I did. Had that mower 18 years and still looked and ran like new when I sold it. The problem with the old Murray was that the shaft on the spindle was bent. My dad fixed it and we used it at my grandparents house for 3 or 4 years. Good Times!
Love the lawnmower revival content would love to see how many there you can revive back to life when you can get the time😁👍❤
Was never the plan to do this… but it’s been fun. And now they are back in service instead of being in the scrap pile. There are at least two more on the property so we will get to those eventually thanks for watching
BEST... VIDEO... EVER!!! Congrats!!!
Thanks man
I love your shows. Glad to see you broke out the murder van I'm working on my 78 Van .instead of making a working lawnmower out of the tractor use an old wheel barrel and make a mini T bucket out of it..
Loved how happy you were driving that mower home but now I’m gonna be singing Big Iron for the rest of the day! And take the plastic off the digger, you’re screwing with my OCD! 😂
Dude that’s one of the nicest things I have ever bought… the whole thing is gonna be wrapped in plastic like grandmas couch.
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Well done on getting the old Murray back up and running. I have a bit of a collection of garden tractors and riding mowers (Murray, SEARS, Ford) and love getting the old ones from the 70's running again. If you need to tip the mower over, lean it the other way so you keep the carb up so you don't drain your oil out of the crank case vent. If you tip it far enough though, you may still lose some out the filler tube.
thanks for the "tip" lol!
I had a yard king rider (same thing as that red Murray) a couple years ago. I bought it for 35 dollars off the side of the road. All it needed was new blades and a battery. One of the best mowers I ever owned.
I know nothing about riding mowers, these are the only ones I have ever had. But that green Murray with the “automatic” is rad. Foot pedal controls forward and reverse.
What a great episode! Watching you learn your way through that was like watching a new robot learn how to walk. 😂 I too just did the mower spindle thingy! What fun.
Enjoying your new property acquisition videos. How much did the free mower cost you? 😂
Thanks man. It was fun to figure it out and very satisfying to make it work.
All in it took about 65 bucks in part that actually ended up on the machine but I prolly spent twice that on stuff that was wrong or now a spare ( belts, other spindle, etc ) small price considering the learning curve
Good job, well done.
Thank you! Cheers!
It's cool you inherited another dog I had one parrot and inherited another parrots. Gotta love your fur babies.
She is sweet. A rescue foster that needs a forever home
Bro, I love all of your videos
Thanks man.
Success ! Riding mowers keeping them running.
There are surprisingly fun to work on. Believe it or not, I’ve never had a riding mower I’ve always borrow them. But these two that I inherited with the property are sure coming in handy now that they work
That's why you keep working on it that's how you learn buddy
i've got a 94 and mow with it every weekend..those 12 horse briggs industrial are hard to beat
That motor wanted to run. I just can’t Celine I got the deck put together. The shafts and pulley splines are stout but I could see how the new ones would round out fast
No Whammys!! Keep on kicking ass!!
thanks man!
Nice, new video 😊
Thanks
you are now a profession lawn mower repair expert, congrats ,,, side money fixing them at 60 an hour...
Lol. The instant gratification is appealing. But these just needed to get done to become tools for me again.
I'm laughing along to myself, been doing mowers for a long time ........good work though ps the looooong spring is your brakes 😊
dude i am glad you got a chuckle... thats what i am here for... at best i observed the obvious and for me... that is success
@@betweenthesharksgarage we all start from somewhere a city isn't built in a day
Reasoning behind the spring is incase the brakes fail / lock up you won't loose function of the clutch disengagement
Nice work buddy
Thanks 👍
I’d love to have the all wheel steer mower you have sitting under the lean tu. The transaxles on those are worth some money, people like me like making four wheel drive mowers out of them hope there’s a video on it or I would buy it from you! Btw im likin the random videos like this from you. Keep at it buddy!
Interesting… if you had now pointed it out I might not have noticed. Maybe I ll do a video on it see if we can get it going. And maybe we’ll get it into the hands of someone doing a conversion like you. Four-wheel-drive mower Sounds fun but I got a pretty long project list.
really enjoy the videos.. i would love to buy old garages/land and have fun with the stuff left behind. sad to say but i work on cars " body and paint" so my projects seem to never get my time.
but im new to the sharks garage but need to see your cars.
One more comment/suggestion about that damn dog. When I bought my new house I didn’t know the neighbor behind me was the dog whisperer! I swear they went to the pound every other weekend and picked up a dog. At one time I counted 9 and they barked 24/7 and they had a dog door that they could come and go all the time. Well I just so happen one evening to have had a firecracker and tossed it in my burn barrel and when it blew those dogs hauled ass to get back inside the house. So this discovery led to me removing my screen off my master bathroom window! So when those dogs started barking at all hours of the night I’d roll out of bed grab a firecracker out of the vanity drawer,ease the window open light and drop it and return to bed. Problem solved for atleast 2-3 hours! Ever seen 8 dogs trying to get through a dog door at one time? Pretty damn funny! I ended up finding what they call a sonic birdhouse. It was activated by barking and it would let off a silent frequency and shut those damn dogs up! They finally moved thank god! Look on Amazon for that bird house or something like that! Good Luck!
Nice you got those working
They have been really helpful
I have the older version of that Murray and the deck is designed to be unhooked from the front, unclimbed from the side hangers at the top, and then disconnected from the control rod. Then it slides out from the side. Also yours has a metal drive wheel on the deck which is good because the plastic ones break often. (I put an 18hp ohv into mine when I had problems with the 12 hp. )
My mistake you do have the plastic drive pulley. I was able to get a different model one that was metal and it helped quite a bit.
All good to know. I was clearly making it up as I went. It all worked out though. Good to know about the upgrades thoigh
If you put a 4x4 up in your rafter put a chain round the 4x4 then a chain fall that way you can lift the front of the mower to make it easier to work under the mower
Defiantly went better than my last test drive. Nothing fell off.
That was a good video man lol. I usually leave my exhaust on the side of the road during a test drive
Excellent job!! Ya gotta love making junk actually do useful work. You may not realize it, but that old thing just became part of your mechanical family. You will probably continue to use it long after you could have easily replaced it.
thank man i am gonna use the hell out of it
"The Zip-Tie Paradox"; Yep, been there! 😅
...i live in it
They were good little lawn tractors I had one and it out lived my John Deere lawn tractor
I hope it holds up but so far it has done more than it owed me
You'll figure it out you'll learn as you go
When’s the house tour? We’ve seen the garage only
Here if a dog barks all day the dog lady will come time it. After 10 minutes the owner gets a $100 fine. I love dogs but not a barking dog. Great video as always 👍👍
Thanks man. I love dogs too. In most cases. This one included it’s not the dog but the owners
Hey bro. Between me And you on ordering your riding Murray lawnmower parts there's idented stamped in numbers and letter's on the engine shrouds.,or identification plates rivoted on the engine and frame of the riding lawnmower. Around the seat area underneath it.,or on the outside of it one. The last four numbers.,or whatever is your looking for the year. And the model and serial is for parts ordering to. You basically need the year model number and the serial number for your parts for the engine and the frame plate numbers to.
Dang! buying new wheels and tires is wild, but way easier. I'm too cheap and buy the cheapest or near that tires off eBay and just swap em on. Fun to work on small engines though, super simple usually.
I hear you but I got them from lawnmower tire store.con. Not sponsored. I paid 192.89 shipped. The difference was 40 bucks between the tires vs tires already mounted on wheels. 10 per wheel to take the old tire off wheel put the new one on set the bead. Fill it up with my air compressor at the other shop take it back, then install it on the lawnmower.
I would be interested in the camper.
That one is a manual transaxle. No release lever. You over tightened the brake and locked them up. Loosen the center lock nut just until it rolls in neutral.
Also the pedal is brake and clutch, so the clutch pulley is probably messed up
I've got the neighbor from hell with outdoor barking dogs also!!! 24/7!! Your style of tinkering and fixing is very similar to mine. Trial and error and wishful thinking.
Heavy ion the wishful thinking. I like how you phrase that though trial and error and wishful thinking
I am extremely curious now-about that mower in the fallin in shed
That video is about as close a look as I have taken we will get to that shed eventually
Who's Vehicle in the background
Not sure which one you mean ..: but I am pretty sure all the vehicles in the video are mine unless they passed me on the road
@@betweenthesharksgarage the little suv beside your van at that house
Don't forget to put oil back in the mower.
Texas red it is👌👌
Tho I’d av gone fo strawberry roan’❤
"tetanus red" ladies and gents... but i like that you all like marty robbins "big iron"
Tip the mower with the air filter up and it shouldn’t leak oil.
Thanks for the “tip”
And usually the transaxle transmission has A sticker bar code on it.,or aluminum plate.
The transaxle does But the sticker on the back of the mower is illegible. For some reason, I assume that the transaxle code was only referencing the transaxle.
Bungee cords should be standard equipment for a Murray.
I am learning that
It is better to have it on the wheels sucks laying down but you need to get a jack for the riders I got a jack for them
use the mower thats in the fallen down barn for parts :}
Man somebody said it was an 86 toro. I didn’t even notice what make it was. But If someone is that much of an enthusiast to spot it we gotta see if it will run
@@betweenthesharksgarage heck yeah man would be cool too see.
those machines are easy to work on i fixem all the time
Lol
The last 5 minutes or so of this video had a very vise grip garage kind of feel to it.
Sounds right man. That dude pretty much invented the get it running and drive it home you tube format. … and I have watched a lot of vice grip.
@@betweenthesharksgarage I think we all have.
I learned back in my early twenties I don't like sitting on the side of the road so I bought a car trailer to tow my projects home but I still think it's cool as F to drive an untested relic.
Now all that being said I think you are the first person to ever seen do it to a lawn mower.
On a side note I'm having a problem with the fact that a 1993 lawn mower is over 30 years old it's truly vintage and in my head I view it as pretty new.
Lawn mowers< trucks and cars
Man that’s confused me since elementary school
@@betweenthesharksgarage it’s ok I asked my kid what was the right direction before I posted it lol
If your going to junk that travel trailer you can bring it to my house
Will do lol
The bearing is probably shot
Need to be lifted up or something not flipped on its side
Put the original pulley back on.
Am I the only one who wants to see inside the abandoned house?
We will get there
29:02 I have a friend of a friend of a friend who can take care of that dog for you 😂😂
HUZZAH. HUZZAH. HUZZAH.
indeed my good man
lol. I hope you make enough off this video for what you put into that crappy mower. 🤣🤣
Unlikely… despite the fact that I only have about 75 bucks in the mower.
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In my opinion those style mowers are hot garbage. Save the engine and scrap the rest.
All I can say is my garbage never drove me a mile or cut my lawn. But this mower sure did
@@betweenthesharksgarage they work. Just unpleasant to work on. Watch that deck. It’s really not safe with holes in it like that.
I just noticed something... I got the same bottle opener ring.
Man a friend gave that to me 20 years ago. Somehow never lost it. Use it all the time
@@betweenthesharksgarage I got mine in a weird way. I was getting a Eaton 6 speed out of a dually dodge truck and it fell out of the shifter boot. I wear it on the middle finger right hand as it's too big fer all the other fingers and too small fer my left middle finger.