Reviving the Crazy S#!% I Built in High School - MOWped First Start in YEARS
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- Today we bring the MOWPED back to life after sitting for a few years in the shed!
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Just did! Damn predatory impersonatin' assholes.
Just Reported one of'em...
John lookalike rooster from top gun
You can't mow of grass without the deck
make it again but safe n better? maybe😂😂🤞
This looks like something we would’ve built last week
I thought of your channel when I saw this fine piece of machinery.
Y’all should have kevin at mini mayhem!
I was about to comment with, [John, Ike, and Charles have entered the chat] 😂
I think they should fix it up and bring it over to you guys some time.
This would be a good candidate for a 670cc nitro methanol retrofit. Only problem is the booger welds might fall off.
John's deathtrap reminds me of the much less elaborate deathtrap my buddy and I threw together in high school.
He had one of those green mesh garden wagons and I had an old rototiller from like the '80s sitting around doing nothing so we decided to combine the two and make the shittiest go-kart you've ever seen. Robbed the engine and drive pulleys off the tiller, bolted the biggest pulley to one (1) wheel, sat the engine on top of it (held in place with two criss-crossed bungee cords), and connected the two with the old alternator belt off my Mazda. The belt wasn't tight enough so we took the tiller's idler pulley and hung it off the wagon's floor with a bolt and two hose clamps.
It was direct-drive all the time which meant it was both compression started _and_ stopped and steered via the pull handle held up in front of your face. This motherfucker went 30mph and was about as stable as a Geo Tracker with a fridge strapped to the roof. God I miss it.
I want one
Jesus christ that's a fuckin paragraph
The fact that Kevin’s first revival was a Honda express makes my heart so happy 🤣🤣🤣
My first was an 82 express that was my grandpas!
You can't mow of grass without the deck
My First One was my granpa 1960s vespa 50,my First road legal bike at 14, i still have It, restored tuned with a 130cc and i drive It daily in the summer
My first modification I ever did was to one of those cheap motovox mopeds, I took the governor out of it and proceeded to toast the rings the next day, it was fun while it lasted lol
My first was my moms 79 express,whe still have it today❤😂
I was born/raised/lived in Cedar Falls, IA til age 38.
My late parents got me a brand new blue Yamaha QT250 in 1984 when I was 12.
I rode it around our Amoco station lot til I was old enough for a license in 1986.
Rode it to part of 8th & 9th grade.
Rode it to part of 10th before I got my first car in 1988.
Lost interest after that (sadly) and ended up giving it to my late older brother that needed it to get around at drag racing events.
The last time I remember riding it before it finally died from all of my abuse (and his) was early/mid 90s.
I really appreciate this video, Kevin. Brought back so many memories for me!
Been watching your channel for a few years.
Much respect from Des Moines!
Seeing John at the end made me think of Fear and Loathing... “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
the corn is looking nice, cant wait to see the next video in the crop series.
I remember being younger and working out at a farm. One day I found a rusty old mini bike and asked if I could take it home, the farmer said it was a rusty piece of crap but I did not care. I brought it home and all the neighborhood kids pitched in for replacement parts and ones who couldn't helped tear it apart and clean it up. We got that sucker running and it moved quick. Surprised nobody ever got hurt on that thing. Anyways one day I came home and found out my brother (Who didn't contribute at all to it) sold it on me. I have never been so mad in my life. I would probably still ride that sucker today, it was amazing.
I would still be dealing with Anger Issues if my brother had done that to me. I'd have raised holy hell until it was returned to me.....but at the very least, Your brother owes you a mini-bike! Brightest Blessings!
@@joez870 with the late fees he owes me a mint condition 1967 cameo ss.
That would have been grounds for a good ass kicking, in my family.
I love this type of stuff. I want to build a motorised wheel barrow out of an old quad. One day .
Do it soon. As soon as you can. Don't wait. Tomorrow will. Turn in to the next day. Then next week, next month, next year. Then never.
@@mad-mason0319 it will be built when I need it.
@@anaphylastiks ok just don't wait too long. I see so many half done projects that never get finished and it's depressing
@@mad-mason0319 I built one for work great for landscaping and ground clean up 2 stroke 49cc and capable of 25mph
How we all survived our childhood continues to amaze me.
The only 80s kids that lived were the crazy geniuses lol
When I was about 13 I built a 3 wheeled go cart out of a cheap furniture dolly, the ones that have 8 inch pneumatic tires. Cut the handle off,and welded a 10 pneumatic castor wheel platform and rigged up a tiller steering bar with a 90 degree angle that stuck straight up at the end you held onto. Put a throttle off a Honda 3 wheeler on it. The load bearing plate became A. the backrest, and B.the anchor point for the very sketchy motor mount system of angle iron, rear, and about 5 layers of 1/8 inch sheet metal with about 200 rosette welds to make a solid motor plate which we bolted a 12 hp Tecumseh Rototiller engine and clutch assembly that ran a carb off a 250cc Harley Davidson 2 stroke dirtbike (so obviously no longer had a governor) and 2 .060"" valve spring shims on each valve. We ground approximately. 100" off the base circle of the cam lobes which with proper lash gave us .100" more lift. Took a lot of trial and error along with about 100 Allen screws to make homemade lash caps to get the correct lash which then created another problem. That much lift without a change in duration or lobe separation angles boosted our cylinder pressure dramatically which meant a 13 year old who weighed about 100 lbs would try to pull start it and about halfway through the compression stroke it would kick back and try to jerk your arms out of socket if you were dumb enough to try and hang on. Starting procedure became pulling it behind a 10 speed bike with the clutch disengaged and the kill switch in the off position as fast as possible then engage the clutch, wheels would slide about 3 feet then the engine would start turning, and then flip the switch to on about 2 seconds after the engine started turning. We were geared for top speed because that's the only sprockets we had (probably would've gone 80 mph if we'd had enough power) so that helped make this operation a lot easier, usually by the 3rd attempt we had it running. Then the trick was don't let it die until we were done riding for the day. It had a solid axle that drove both rear wheels and a home made "scrubber brake" that rubbed one tire to stop... so yeah kinda no brakes. We lived on a caliche road that was pretty decent for about a week after the maintainer came by which happened once per month. We had a 2 mile stretch of straight as an arrow road and only 2 families that lived on that road about 2 miles past us and over a cattle guard which we knew better than to attempt crossing with 8 inch diameter tires. Don't know how fast it went, felt like 200 mph but was probably around 45. Dad was a truck driver and only home on weekends, and we were always super busy helping nim work on cars when he was home so he knew we'd built this thing but I think he assumed we ran the rototiller self propelled drive system with a modification or two. One weekend he had a buddy over and the buddy asked how fast our cart went. Dad said probably about 15 mph. Highly offended me and my brother fired it up to show him what was what. I made a short pass by the shop at about half speed and then did the sketches rolling burnout with the front wheel turned about 75° to turn around then kinda coasted to a stop in front of my dad and his buddy who are standing there mouths agape. Dad's says lemme try that suckered out, and if I was smart I'd have stalled it right then and not been able to restart it...But nope, beaming with pride I get off, give my dad a quick tutorial on the controls and away he goes. Well he did a top speed pass, must used every inch of road we had because we'd never seen that thing go anywhere near that fast. He flies by us and starts pushing the most useless brake pedal in all of motorsports history and I guess he was down to about 30mph when he reached the cattleguard I mentioned earlier. I don't know exactly how high that thing flew when he jumped that cattleguard but I know I saw at least 4 feet of daylight between him and the road. When he managed to get it turned around and back to the shop we could see a definite bow in the frame and that castor wheel was about to snap off. The tiller steering bar had a new 45° bend in the middle of it, dad had a bruise on his cheek and a mouse over his eye. Without saying a word he walked into the shop and wheeled the Oxygen/acetylene torch out and cut up everything but the engine. His buddy got uncomfortable and left. That night he said, " I oughta whip yalls asses for building that damn death trap. I can't believe nobody ever got seriously hurt or killed on it. The only reason I'm not beating your asses is I'm kinda proud yall could make something go that fast for such a small amount of money, you gotta tell me what all you did to the engine."
We told him what all we'd done and he ended up selling the engine for $150 to a guy that was building some hotrod vintage looking 1/4 midget car to run exhibition laps at the dirt track in Roswell NM about 75 miles away. He gave us the money on the condition that if we built anything with an engine he had to check it out before we ran it. We probably had $35 in the whole cart so we weren't to upset, honestly I think we knew all along it was a death trap disaster waiting patiently to kill or maim someone but admitting this thing was a very bad idea was just not something we were gonna do. Didn't wanna look like a chicken... Better dead than scared I guess. Unfortunately I haven't processed much in some ways. Currently I'm building and riding a Vtwin powered minibike built off a Massimo Baja Warrior MB 200 chassis. Modifying as I go, riding daily and have it up over 70 mph so far, and my plans should have it over 100mph soon. I'm almost 52 now and after years of building and racing dragbikes including Nitromethane burning 140 cubic inch "Harley" Top Fuel/Pro Fuel bikes ( not a single actual Harley part on them) I guess I just can't walk away from it.
Well I should be going to bed because my first day of school is tomorrow. But I'll just watch this new Junkyard Digs episode instead
Lol That's the spirit! 👏
Private school
Felt that
my first day was yesterday
My first was like 3 and half weeks ago
I'm 65, in the sixties we were the first to put a knobby tire on the FRONT of our bikes! Now mountain bikes and others have finally caught up! Farm life where you had to manufacture your own fun! Hey Kevin that's a nice looking stand of corn🌽 !
My first motorcycle was a Honda express but the orange one and my first mower was a snapper. Never did I ever think about putting them together. I love it!
just seeing everyone's faces at 0:00 and holding a brew made me figure this was gonna be a good one
Kevin, my dude. This. This is why I dig your stuff so much. Thanks for the smile and y’all just keep on. Thanks as always for quality content and just a great time.
This has got to be my most favorite Junkyard Digs video of all time right here, I have never seen anything that thrown together before in my life, AND I LOVE IT!!
Reminds me when 6 years ago i used to put old Drill motors in my Rc cars, and see how fast I could make them go, only to realize they were crappy brushed motors that didn't have much speed, but still made me happy because back then I didn't have any other motor to put in the Rc cars, and it was just genuinely fun to see my crazy abomination spin to life anyways. To this day I still have the same rc car with a drill motor in it, but I don't use it too often as I have moved onto brushless motors with higher speeds
I built a 3 wheeler as well...yamaha big bear front end, tao tao 50cc rear end. Runs great, has been great fun to ride. Putting 2 different rigs together is great fun, both to build and to run.
Is John a Marine? Veteran? He comes across that way, reminds me of my brother.
That's a Mustache straight outta Me, Myself and Irene. Maybe an application to the Rhode Island State Patrol, officer? 🧡
I think you believe its so sketchy now is cuz you were a person of smaller stature when you did it. Now that you are more adult, its better built for more 'fun' sized people like...Mook and John and Jesse! Lots of FUN in this video!!!!
You should put a reel mower on the front where it says snapper and it will definitely be a mowped
I used to have a Snapper lawn mower and always thought someone could possibly do something cool with it. Years later I see this. Thank you for confirming my childhood suspicions of awesome.
The humble beginnings of JYD!!! Love it!!!
"Others call this junk, I call this treasure"
The best way to describe this thing is "contraption"
MOW-ped: official pace vehicle of the 2023 Grand Prix Grand Prix
In MI you can get a road legal moped license at age 15 so I also was pretty familiar with a similar style bike in HS, a QT50 I also road as a dirt bike and even on frozen lakes with studded tires
well, Honda certainly knows how to build an engine
seconded. honda engines are the best
Brings me back 40 years! Awesome video
There's a select few people in the world who'd I'd love to buy a beer for. You Kevin, along with Mook Jessie and John. Yall seem like some cool people. love the videos my dude.
I agree
Brilliantly insane. I love it.
Also, the corn is looking good out in the back field.
This looks like something my neighbor would build he loves to work on crazy stuff all the time!
Having experienced a few of Kevin's vids, this is not a surprise that he was nuts as a kid. LOVE IT!
Kevin use to mostly impress me by his dedication to breathing life into the old, the forgotten and given up on vehicles of the past. Now, after seeing this death trap, I am most impressed with the fact that he has survived as long as he has.
Dude, put pedals on the snapper-side and use bike cables for gas/brake. Also, any way to get more power outta that thing?
Mow ped lol
I had to make my dirt bikes run with nothing when I was a kid aswell. And now I'm a mchanicly inclined all prosseses welder fabricator. Fix anything with not much. There is always a way.
i wish john was on every show . you never know what he will say or do but you know your going to smile and laugh because he's funny.
I think this is Kevin's shortest video so far🤔
Love your stuff man keep them coming
Well of course, it’s and old Honda there’s never much to do to them
My first revival was a 84 Honda 3 wheeler
Got it running and almost restored during highschool, took it for 2 trips up and down the road, blew up the motor, and had to push it a quarter mile home on gravel.
Good times
Kevin and John you both built really cool machines. 🙂
Friggin awesome. Youth was so awesome. The things we used to do. Wooohoooo! Keep On Motoring Brother!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
There's always something to learn when watching a Junkyard Digs video 😂
Thanks for the great content and teaching me a lot
First. Right off the bat... The most important part of this video, is indeed, that Ford Ranger..... 🤣🤣👍
Thanks guys I was having a crap day and this really gave me a good laugh! I built a go kart out of some old bed frame and a 3 horse engine when I was around 10… It had no brakes and the back wheels would commonly fall off!🤣
That thing is wicked cool! Ya better hold on to that thing for as long as it lives 😂 reminds me of the first moped i had 1980 Honda express. It had a bad engine in it and had no way to get it fixed because I was a city boy and like 13, so I gutted the front off of it and put it on a bicycle 😂 that thing was epic. This reminded me of some of the contraptions i would come up with in my parents backyard when I was a teen. Really cool to see great minds think alike when there's a will and way. I also had a 1982 Honda city express that also had a bad engine and a 2004 cool sports 50cc scooter engine and drivetrain. I mated the 2 together and it had like a 14 inch wheel in the front and a 10 inch wheel in the back 😂😂 it scooted though. Did like 40 and all the lights worked on the 1982, that's why I did the swap for legality. Rode that thing for years. Might still be running to this day maybe? Wish I still had all the cool things I made as a kid lol.
That is a terrifying contraption of doom, well done Young Kevin. 🤣
Back in the late 1990s, I built a sweet ass lawnmower. The thing I was most proud of was the hand crafted dual exhaust I made from 3/4” galvanized piping. Sounded like a Harley. 27mph and no brakes. Took it through the woods and tried to jump a fallen tree. Mower stopped dead in its tracks, but I went ass end over the steering wheel a few times. That was the end of that. I still have the exhaust and a picture of the mower for memories sake.
bored farm kid + broken moped + junk mower + welder = super happy fun time! during my time as a bored farm kid, i just made go karts out of old riding mowers, not full on monster-os-ities like this fubar clusterfuk of epic proportions! you know, it's truly a wonder you survived to adulthood with all of your appendages intact. did you play tarzan on the old hay bale trolley rope that was hanging from a track at the peak of the barn rafters like i did as well? i kept waiting for the bale fork that was stuck up there to break off and send me skying through the back wall of the barn like my dad was always yelling at me about, but it never happened. i guess it really is better to be lucky than good.
It was great seeing John again! And also this had to be the quickest revival ever!!!! Keep up the great work, the content has been outstanding
This channel is the most wholesome thing in my life.
you have a sad life
IMO the friend shouldnt look for faults as anybody who could make this preteen is a genius and don't forget 10 year olds don't have big budgets if any
Duuude this is awesome
As a fan of sketchy vehicles, I approve of this tomfoolery. Also would love to take it for a spin. :)
Best real people "King of The Hill" moment!!!!
I've never seen a skateboard kick actually work on a motorized vehicle until today.
That thing is about like me putting a car Stering wheel on my bicycle when I was a kid.. lol 😆
That looks fun as hell. I wanna build one for myself
This contraption cracks me up. The “training wheels” had me rolling!
So John made a 1930s Ford Roadster Sand Rail out of a old wheelBarrel now that is dope @9:09 @JunkYard Digs
The good old stuff always comes back to life
I built, and ride a mobility scooter that can do almost 40mph.
So i can safely say, that *thing* looks like a death trap 😂
I have one that I would love to do this with...
@@sykwookiee Mine requred a few gocart parts, an 1800w motor, 48v li-ion battery and controller. Fair bit of modifying frame and welding box sections (depends on scooter).
I found that a kids quad bike can be broken for a lot of parts and save a lot of money, that took trial and error lol
Dude, find yourself a knobby bicycle tire & replace the one on the rear with it!! Then it'll SERIOUSLY rip in the dirt!!😁 That thing looks GNARLY!!😉🍻
Hell yes! Looking forward to this!
This video is a great glimpse into the mind of a bored kid who wanted something to ride and didn't mind cobbling together whatever he could find.
OMG...me and the gang did stuff like this starting around 6,7,8 grade...we had a 2x4 frame go cart with a lawn mower engine....then actually converted a briggs and stratton 4 stroke into a 2 stroke....blew up in the first hour, but went like stink until it didn't. Love all your stuff! Hugs to you and Mook and Jesse too!!!
Im subscribed with the notification bell on and I love your awesome channel bro keep up the great work
Have you started the search for a harvester for your corn yet? I'm willing to bet anything you find for free/cheap will take a lot of work and long waits for parts
This is cool. Reminds me of the stuff my brother and I used to build.
When you see beers in hand at the very beginning you know it's going to be 🔥!
You’ve put more miles on that moped than I’ve put on my truck
John I love the new patrol car!
Love the videos keep it up
You guys never cease to amaze me with your creativity. I’d love to see a build off between all you guys just going to a junkyard and grabbing things. Junkyard Wars Junkyard Digs style.
Craziest vehicle thing I did as a ~8yo is- I added a whole accessory electrical system to my Power Wheels. Big lights, etc. Trouble is, I couldn't afford switches... so I used paperclips attached to wires that I'd chain together to turn on. Well.... they shorted, and the resultant red-hot wires did a fine job of smoking out my bewildered parent's garage. Good times. Still have the motors from that thing 25 years later, , stout little beasts.
Gr8 to see John.. u guys make it very 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣 hilarious for me and wife to watch.. u rock
I knew that if John got on it he'd go wot. He fears nothing. He'd ride a hungry gator to the store for groceries and with a big smile on his face.
I wish that I had photos of my first mini bike. It was not a revival however I followed the guidance from my uncle. I sanded down the head gasket surface on the head for more compression, drilled the air cleaner for more air flow and installed an electronic "ignition points eliminator" kit that I bought from Builders Emporium. (Anyone remember that chain store?). I eventually sold it in order to afford my first motorcycle. I do not regret that choice though. Going from a Tecumseh powered single speed mini bike to a 5 speed Hodaka was a mind bender for me.
This thing is crazy! I wish I had stuff like this to mess around with as a kid. Instead we have stuff around now for my kids to mess with. 👍
Some people just don't understand but over here in Northwest North Carolina we can surely relate. 🤣🤣
I made a gokart in junior high school I bought off a friend for 50 bucks had a 5 hp tiller engine in it and he blew said engine to smitthereens... I had a brand new kawasaki snowmobile from year before my brother in law stole it and was joyriding it hit a water well pipe and ripped the entire front end off of it 3 months after buying it new... So my ingenious plan was to cutoff the old gokart engine cage with engine and weld in new plate mounts and engine cage. I add the 660 kawasaki engine and had 2 speeds fast and holy chit batman... well that june about 2 months after building it I decided to see what topend was & went back to mile and half road to main county road placer er in holychit batman gear and slammed pedal to the floor made the mile and half what seemed like blink of an eye speedo went to 80 and was pegged out in 100 feet... I proceeded to take the long slow curver to the right to our machine shed at full balls backend slide out hit the ditch went airborne flipped over fence into a field and rolled it 500 feet+ luckily I had some brains and had a full rollcage with 5 point belts in it and wokeup a few minutes later popped belts and stumbled back to road pickin up pieces along the way.... Then my pops camehome......... I had the whoops face and he just snickered looked at me and said you okay boy? Said Yes sir and walked back to the house while he said pickup all that chit before mom sees it
Looks like the guy from super troopers without the mullet🤣
"YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO!?"
Kevin, consider sponsoring a contest for the local high-school students to build their versions of the Mow-ped. That would be great fun to watch and help students get their ingenious contraptions "internet fame".
Ok so now i know what happens when a crazy mechanic has to much time on his hands
I feel like this thing deserves a bit of a revival, you know, fix up the dings, dents and other things.
john trying to look like goose with that topgun stash
anyone else see the mower underneath the ol tractor at 10:59 ? interesting and i wonder if thats going to be in the next farm episode...
took the motor of the ringer washer and put it on a ol bike. awesome.
Old boy has the county issued moustache... he must have made the force.
Havent had a good 3 wheeler revival in a long time its about time
I love videos like this. Makes me want more of the revivals like the three wheelers and snowmobiles.
that is super awesome, and great to see where you got your starts
This ranks right up there with Phoenix's 600 cc golf cart for stupid, hilarious things
Yeah, brings back memories for sure. Growing up the neighbor kids and I always had go karts or mini bikes. All home built. When I was 17 I took the motor off my Artic Cat snowmobile and put it and the torque converter on my go kart. Wow. Now that thing moved! We clocked it at 90+. Miracle we all survived. I helped a good friend put a 350 honda motor on his. That thing also went like hell. Still have the go kart. I am 67 now!
That things insane!!!😂😂😂 You should go all out, and totally build it out, new paint and everything. You could raffle it off for charity or something. I'd buy a few tickets.
Need too swap it out for a manual old school push mower front end. Make chores great again!!!
Was watching another video about Mr. Pelosi drinking but when I saw this pop up I had to see this mini beast
This needs to go to the new carsandcameras mini mayhem event kevin!
Right off the bat "Kevin what the hell is that?" That's where I started laughing.
Actually we also did some sort of a death trap in high-school. A "trailer" which consisted of 2 motorcycle wheels welded to a VW buggy driver seat and we pulled it with a 50cc moped. It tipped over as soon as we got in the revs with first gear.