I bought a snapper commercial 5 hp back in the 80’s when I was mowing for extra money in the summer and it ran and lasted for more than 20 years. It was self propelled. Made my job so much easier! Repaired everything myself as when you mow commercially things do wear out faster than just your own. Carried spare bearings and springs with me. Never really knew when a wheel bearing or drive spring might wear out. Loved mine and still have 3, all self propelled. The customers liked the way their yards looked when I finished with them!
still got a HiVac. Third engine. From 1983. Henry ain't getting it. The six-speed self propel is the unit. With clutch trigger. Great set up, great deck, great cut, great control. Some non-self-propel with an oil old bomb of a B&S up/pull engine won't cut it. Ran Tecunseh, 12 years. Ran a B&S Sprint, 12 years, now been Quantum power since 2009. Best power ever. Still going strong! Every other mower is only 5/10 compared to a Quantum Snapper. Too bad that engine arrived after the original Macon GA Snappers went out of production. That's what I got & it's 10/10.
I did like my snapper back in the day. The first one I had was self propelled. That drive system was overly complicated so I traded it back in for a pusher. Those decks really do cut well. The high vacs can clean the yard like a vacuum cleaner!
I think it’s something nostalgic about snappers. Several of the old guys in my neighborhood had snappers when I was growing up in the 70s. They swore by these machines and they had them forever.
I owned a Snapper similar to that one. Bought it brand new, lasted 38 years. I/C Briggs and Stratton, bullet proof. You get used to the bagger. No zipper to break. Bagged leaves every fall, up to 50 trash bags in a day, the trash bag took two bagger loads to fill. Bag was still good when it finally quit. Great quality, wish they still made them.
I have one snapper high vac with no drive, the rest are all drive versions and high vac, baggers, and I have one with the pac&sac bagger, I have a bunch of the robin 2 cycle and 4 cycle pros, and a bunch of bigger ones, I collect them, and those 2, the one you fixed has the alum/mag deck, but not really wanted.
Henry, I wish that I wasn’t so far away, Because I always liked the Snapper that I own. Unfortunately the OEM gas tanks are getting harder and harder to find, Especially a very decent one.
@@MowersNBlowers A while back, I purchased a very nice gas tank with all of the brackets, the wind vane governor and all the bolts and I had to pay a hefty price from a seller off of eBay. I figured that buying the fuel tank was the cheaper option rather than buying a new engine from Harbor Freight Tools. I wouldn’t have bothered with the Snapper if it hadn’t belonged to my dad. Actually I was really surprised that NOS and brand new blades were so available for a mower of that time period..That Hi-Vac mower deck has been around for several years now. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that you don’t want to use one of the Snapper mowers around a gravel driveway because the flying rocks do not feel very good.
Can’t stand those Snappers. My scrapper buddy offered me one just like that only in nice shape for free, told him thanks but no thanks. I owned a self propelled one for a very short time, absolutely hated it and sold it after one season of mowing with it. Guess ya either love ‘em or hate ‘em, but I’m with you on this one!
I bought a snapper commercial 5 hp back in the 80’s when I was mowing for extra money in the summer and it ran and lasted for more than 20 years. It was self propelled. Made my job so much easier! Repaired everything myself as when you mow commercially things do wear out faster than just your own. Carried spare bearings and springs with me. Never really knew when a wheel bearing or drive spring might wear out. Loved mine and still have 3, all self propelled. The customers liked the way their yards looked when I finished with them!
still got a HiVac. Third engine. From 1983.
Henry ain't getting it. The six-speed self propel is the unit. With clutch trigger.
Great set up, great deck, great cut, great control.
Some non-self-propel with an oil old bomb of a B&S up/pull engine won't cut it.
Ran Tecunseh, 12 years. Ran a B&S Sprint, 12 years, now been Quantum power since 2009. Best power ever. Still going strong! Every other mower is only 5/10 compared to a Quantum Snapper. Too bad that engine arrived after the original Macon GA Snappers went out of production. That's what I got & it's 10/10.
I did like my snapper back in the day. The first one I had was self propelled. That drive system was overly complicated so I traded it back in for a pusher. Those decks really do cut well. The high vacs can clean the yard like a vacuum cleaner!
I think it’s something nostalgic about snappers. Several of the old guys in my neighborhood had snappers when I was growing up in the 70s. They swore by these machines and they had them forever.
Good video Henry. Thanks. 🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it
I owned a Snapper similar to that one. Bought it brand new, lasted 38 years. I/C Briggs and Stratton, bullet proof. You get used to the bagger. No zipper to break. Bagged leaves every fall, up to 50 trash bags in a day, the trash bag took two bagger loads to fill. Bag was still good when it finally quit. Great quality, wish they still made them.
You’re free to come get mine anytime
@@MowersNBlowers a little far, I am in Texas
@@dalestanley506 go cowboys
Love my Snappers...1993 6 hp Briggs. Other is a 5 hp Briggs I took off a Turf King from 1995.
That one has clean gas tank. I like snapper and have two one commercial 21” with Kawasaki the other 21” residential with Honda engine. Nice tutorial
You got to love the old Briggs classic engines I bet if you cleaned the fuel tank in the other snapper and the carburetor it run as well
Sorry bro.... "Nothing cuts like a Snapper".... LMAO
Man it's been a while since I was a kid mowing with one of these Briggs motors
I’ll take a good Georgia Snapper anytime. Too bad you aren’t in PSL Fl, I’d have gladly paid $20 weeks ago
I would have gladly sold it to you and then thank you for taking them off my hands
That's the old briggs carb, that's a special gasket, it's a pain to work on, not as easy as the newer carbs on the 3.75 engines that you're use to.
Hi Henry, turn that S & N into a C & R
I’m take some time and try and figure out any of that means
CRapper not SNapper
@@andrewbratos6907 gotcha
I garbage picked a nasty Snapper Hi-Vac earlier this summer. Got it running and, man, does it revv high.
I have one snapper high vac with no drive, the rest are all drive versions and high vac, baggers, and I have one with the pac&sac bagger, I have a bunch of the robin 2 cycle and 4 cycle pros, and a bunch of bigger ones, I collect them, and those 2, the one you fixed has the alum/mag deck, but not really wanted.
The one with the bag is a high vac, the other one isn't, the high vac is a better machine.
They are both high vac . Just one of them is missing a bagger
@@ommah3667 oh ok, what makes the deck a high vac, and not a high vac, there is a difference?
Henry, I wish that I wasn’t so far away, Because I always liked the Snapper that I own. Unfortunately the OEM gas tanks are getting harder and harder to find, Especially a very decent one.
I should just sell you the gas tank, it’s pristine!
@@MowersNBlowers A while back, I purchased a very nice gas tank with all of the brackets, the wind vane governor and all the bolts and I had to pay a hefty price from a seller off of eBay. I figured that buying the fuel tank was the cheaper option rather than buying a new engine from Harbor Freight Tools. I wouldn’t have bothered with the Snapper if it hadn’t belonged to my dad.
Actually I was really surprised that NOS and brand new blades were so available for a mower of that time period..That Hi-Vac mower deck has been around for several years now.
Unfortunately I found out the hard way that you don’t want to use one of the Snapper mowers around a gravel driveway because the flying rocks do not feel very good.
See the v shaped mark above snapper name, that means it's a V deck.... The deck is collectable.
Well you can have them both when you come up north
As long as it Mows, the grass
Great job henry
I live in Westland mich i take both to for $20.
Sure come get them
What you doing with the other engine?
Selling both machines together!
@@MowersNBlowers ok that sounds good I was just wondering what you were going to do with it 👍
@@Bottldiggerofnz I literally can’t even give them away!
@@MowersNBlowers that a bummer A but it’s not the engines it’s the decks?
@@Bottldiggerofnz well, there was nothing wrong with either of the decks, aluminum
I'm beginning to think you don't like snappers.
I can see how they probably worked in their prime. But I’m not a fan either.
Can’t stand those Snappers. My scrapper buddy offered me one just like that only in nice shape for free, told him thanks but no thanks. I owned a self propelled one for a very short time, absolutely hated it and sold it after one season of mowing with it. Guess ya either love ‘em or hate ‘em, but I’m with you on this one!
Sooooo.... You're saying Snapper sucks?..... LMAO