You've Never Seen This AWESOME 1947 Battery Powered Mower
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- As seen on UNILAD Tech, Taryl received this super cool Jiffy battery powered mower from a fan and after scouring the internet and putting some feelers out there, he determined it's from around 1947! Check out this old piece of antique technology and see if the man himself can actually get this thing to operate like it once did back in 1947. And as Taryl always says... There's Your Dinner!!
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the very 1st DR field and brush mower,
I thought the same thing..lol..
You would hook it to 24v. lol
Exactly 😂
The K D Mower. Killer Diller.
U sure? The very first?
That's a pretty cool mower Taryl, aluminum can be polished to a mirror finish, that mower would really look amazing polished!
3:22 indeed I got some issues with push mower wheels roll over uncut grass in sections of our lawn
I used a human pwr. Real mower. At 6yrs old the bars were clean over my head. 50cents a yard paid in coinage. My lawn service grew to include a neighborhood bully. The big dude knocked me flat. I recall Jeff flight or fright. Those are not options with a high schooler on top of you. God's grace I got him in a chokehold for sometime I was afraid to let him go ask to be mincemeat. I heard my mom call for supper and simply told him I had to go. He didn't get up and attack me so he decidedly agree. Still have that non-motor push mower today at 73. I don't need a gym membership or corn gas
22:00 Had to laugh. That was my job when I was 8 years old, no push no allowance. That was 1959.
30:39 Where would the wires go from the charger to the battery ? Maybe that ground wire would have had a wire nut on it ?
even the modern sickle mower blades had a habit of breaking off . hit a rock with that thing you will be legless and still sober . but blade guards made of welded on chains are good
Great job Taryl.. love your videos... nice new sneakers!!
Had a question on an Ariens 936093 42" geared tractor.
The mow height lever or sometimes refereed to as the attachment lift lever, its badly out of adjustment.
The manual describes the level adjustment and the pitch adjustment, its not that, those are fine.
When you set the mow height at 2 1/2" its right down in the dirt, a normal cut is all the way to six inches or max.
Taryl you should make a 12volt one of these from scratch, with safety and light weight modern model.
Cool what’s your plan restore it or keep it original
Man get Carl out there with his sling blade. But I call it a Kaiser blade!
Them motor bearings where groaning holy smokes
11:47 new gingle? Cool👍
there was a fellow of the name darwin dapper, right after wwII created the service station supply company, it then turned into the dapper tire company.
Get one of them little Marine chargers that bolts near the battery and sharpen the damn blades
Min 25:55 to 25:57
I noticed sparks on the front wheel.
Hope Taryl don’t get shocked. 😧
Man that thing’s gotta be worth some coin, being as rare as hens’ teeth. Unlike Taryl’s teeth, which is big and plenty.
That thing predates the advent of safety. I just spent a good deal of time on the interscreen practicing my Google-Foo and I can't find a damn thing on "Best Manufacturing and Equipment Company", "Jiffy Mower", "Jiffy Lawn Machine".......and so on. The one thing I find that looks like that is, well, your thumbnail. Hopefully someone sees this video and goes "hey, I think great uncle Wilfred had one of those things" and finds a picture of it in their grandmother's family photo album or something.
The danger mower should make a reappearance around Halloween... torturer or mulcherer... you decide🧛♂️😱
Please lube the motor bushings the thing is screaming for some lube.
this one sounds like it should go in the X-file.
You sure have some interesting power equipment. Im thinking its time for a Taryl Museum. A nice pole barn with an old fashioned barn looking front. Sell the Taryl apparel, stickers, and your Taryl products and of course some Rat Krunches. Charge a 6 pack of Hamms per person to get in....theres yer dinner.
You have to remember we didnt very many real idiots using machines . Only accidents were the real stupid ones doing stuff the machine wasnt designed to do. Not many drug addicts worked , they were ones from war who got drugged up for pain and then hooked. Nobody learned to sue for millions like now. Dam neat mower tho I like it too. I think a good polish and paint it'll look great maybe a red n black trim.
Cool mower Taryl ... but yea, had some safety issues ... I'll bet the Ryobi boys went right to their drafting tables after they saw this video ... lol ... I also save that "stuff" .... lots of uses if you're creative ... makes excelent "bumbers" for things
The blade looks like it has a sickle bar tooth riveted to the end. Sickle bars use lead rivets. If it wears out you just replace it.
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This is pre . battery mower to what is out there today
in 1947, the aluminum that was made from was probably melted down WW2 aircraft.
Without even checking to they fire it up that blade could've took both of them without thinking if it wanted to made me back away from my phone
do they make lithium 6 v batteries?
Yes, you can now ignite your yard then bring that in the house to polish your floor and burn your house down.
Jippy mower.
Wow, I never thought I'd see one of these again. When I was in college in the early 70's the small rental house I lived in had one of these in the garage behind it. I would use the battery from the car (12 volts) and trigger the button on/off and mowed the small yard with it. Seems the motor was probably a generator or starter motor. Actually it worked pretty well for the small yard, the 12 volt battery gave it extra power and the grass was thin so I never did any damage to it I remember the blade being out of balance and with the over speed from the 12 volts I was careful to not run it to fast. I also remember sometimes after mowing having to charge the battery back up so it would start the car. Safety? It was more dangerous than the 14 inch arm saw at the lumber yard where I worked part time back in those days. .
I’ll justhuy
Since it ran the battery down so fast, that is why they had a charger attached to the rear?
"Does anyone else want to see this thing polish the floor?" Heck I do.
It looks like a floor buffer
It would polish the floor in a Jiffy it turns so fast!!!
That's more powerful that the floor buffers I use at Walmart! Hell you polish your floors with that and you will not be able to stand up on it... LOL
LLAP
@@Nighthawkrun 4:45
can you paint it like a vw bus?
Yeah it does kinda resemble one. LOL
The two channels I get outta bed early for on my Sunday off....thanks guys, love what ya do!
Where's the bagger
I can just hear Zip Ties And Bias Plys now. "You don't need to worry about safety equipment!"
I would just go to town with some aluminum polish and a mother's power ball and then clear coat it. It should shine like a mirror.
Yo Taryl, how about you grease the motor bearings ?
Smoother running
I'm only halfway in the video, maybe you gonna do it
Man, thats an amazing machine.
Another idea; try put combine blades on it, those are aggressive cutting blades and thats easier on the motor
Lubing the motor bearings would be of the highest importance on my list.
Agreed. All the older electric motors I've seen at least have an oil hole. Probably even replace the bearings, if there are any roller bearings & not just a "bearing surface." And probably some brushes too.
Taryl, 6 volt cars of that era had the positive terminal to frame unlike years later 12v negative grounded to frame. Could this be possible with this mower. Was the blade directional and motor spinning in the correct direction?
I was thinking the same thing.!
Wouldn't matter much with the blade using sickle mower blades.
Was likely positive ground. All cars were 6v positive ground back then. Wouldn’t really make a difference to the operation of this machine due to the blade configuration. Sickle mower type blades are sharpened on both side as they reciprocate to cut.
Agree with positive ground. Also, I put an 8 volt batter in my JOHN DEERE B, no modifications needed except for the regulator. Even the lights were OK. Made a big difference on the performance of the starter.
It will be a series wound universal motor, so either polarity will spin it the same direction.
The positive to chassis would have probably made it corrode faster though, especially aluminium.
Imagine how it might run with new bearings and brushes. That motor is 74 years old after all!
There is no reason this cannot be made to run like new.
Bet that motor would run great on 12v battry.
@@LeeHill66 What voltage are they using? I forget as I watched it a month ago.
@@tarstarkusz 6 V
If you polish it with a mirror finish you might be able to see yourself while you can shave your face, only if you're tough enough.
Looks like Jiffy got out of the grass cutting business and stayed with commerical floor scrubbers. That's right. Still battery operated floor scrubbers and buffers. I'm sure you've seen them at Walmart, Home Depo and other big chain stores. Walk behind and Riding versions. This came from just a few minutes of research. Give me a little time and see what else I can come up with.
Mr. Dactyl this is fabulous!!! You and your multi-talented family have once again hit a home run!!! Your channel is the go to source for any and all things small engine repair and history of the small engine in America. The Taryl Fixes All videos may end up in museums themselves as great sources of American history!! Thank you to all of you for yet another great production and making my Sunday's even more special than they already are. Your biggest fan Larry C
It might be lacking in safety features but without the shroud it would do well in Battle Bots ;-)
The aluminum would be its Achilles heel
i thought that too .
@@kwhp1507 Uhhh, I think the weapon motors in battle bots are just a _bit_ more powerful. Now, if you coated it in AR500, changed the blade to AR500, added a remote control, and upgraded the batteries to lithium, you'd basically have Tombstone. Now the real question is if you took Tombstone out to a field, how good a job would it do cutting the grass? Or, you could go the other way, just add a salad bowl to the top, and you'd have Rusty :)
Are you at all nervous about the future of your business as more yard equipment moves to electric?
**LOL, my 5 year old comes over to me to check out what I was watching and she asked if "her teeth would get like that" if she doesnt brush her teeth. I lied and said yes because its a struggle to get her to brush her teeth at times. THANKS!
Not really this Battree stuff is going to take a long time to purge out the gas powered stuff.By then I will probably be Dead. LOL
@@TarylFixesAll Plus, you can obviously repair the battree stuff too. Great video Taryl!
The video then will be: "What to do when your lithium battery explodes in a fireball"
I remember my grandma talking about a battery powered mower they had in the early 50s. (This was in the 90s) Everybody just thought she had too much wine.
There were cars in the 50s that had power locks and windows and electrically adjustable seats etc, of course they were top of the line and expensive back then but we always think thats a new invention.
They had just about everything back even in the 40s, just a lot of it was primitive and scarce.
This mower might have been just the thing for MY grandmother as she had little bitty piece of yard but she used a push reel mower in her 70s.
What? I always Mow my grass and then drag my grassy, greasy, dirt covered mower into the kitchen to sweep the floors 😅👌 That mowers a beaut Taryl Thanks for the viJeo!
Here's what became of Jiffy Mower Company.
So many engineers and technicians were losing body parts, the Doctor wanted his money in a Jiffy.
So the DR Field and Brush mower was born.
I'm from the fifties we are a lot stronger, we could push that baby with ease. Don't need no safety either.
Danger mower has a cousin that goes by killer tiller. It didn’t say how long are how many batteries you would need to mow 2 acres. The guys back then survived WW2 only to come home and loose a limb to there mower. Talk about getting it from every side.
Not bad for TALL grass, but a reel mower would be easier to push and faster on short grass. As a kid (1950's) I useta mow our back yard with a reel mower and I would RUN with it to get it finished FAST.
i used gas power reel mowers at the golf coarse when i was younger to mow greens 19 holes
Pull the motor and but new bearings and brushes in it.
Who says it’s got any bearings? Bushings at best! 😂
@@stevendegreef93 Bearings , bushings whatever..... it just sounds a bit rough when it's running and when he shuts it off and it's winding down. Same thing you get with an old vacuum motor , makes a world of difference and not hard or expensive to do.
The bearings were probably tightening up by the end of the video. Early in the vid, it spun for a while after it was switched off. By the end, it was stopping pretty quickly.
Taryl,I appreciate everything you guys do,and to prove it,I’m gonna sit through every five minute ad 😂 Thanks guys.
Hey David,
Glad you like ads, but my entire online experience is void of ads.
I've never seen ads in videos or ads on webpages.
Desktop computer with ad blockers give me more time to cut grass!
(I'm sure you're being funny...)
I imagine those motor bearings would appreciate some oil or grease
My first truck was a 52 Chevy with a 6 volt electrical system. You could not really say it had headlights. It was just a different shade of dark. Surprised you could find a 6 volt batt today.
Nice.can you plug your electric toothbrush in to it lol
Being it is from Wichita, you could use a Coleman lantern (also from Wichita) you could cut your 1-2 acre lawn at NIGHT!
Even now the Wichita lineman is still on the line
@@fair2middlin bet he's getting tired of looking for overloads all these years..
Well, I have an extremely rare Mountfield M4 Electric mower, from the late sixties! But it's mains electric. Roughly 3hp motor on it - definitely dims the lights for a second when you power it up!
How about a battery disconnect switch somewhere, and also a 8 volt battery for extra power
How about a switch you don't have to hold?
@@fair2middlin Button is a safety feature
Back in the day, we use 8 volt batteries when the old starters started getting sluggish and the engines got hard to start.
Taryl is worried about taking the guard cover off, but the first time he “fired it up” on the bench, the sketchy blades were at abdomen height. Glad those 74-year-old blades held on and didn’t fly into Taryl or Mr. Cameraman’s stomach!!
That's what I was thinking, then he even films them lol
Another fantastic chapter in the Dactyl saga. I believe this mower should be polished and sealed. Ironic that battery lawnmowers were made back in 1947 and now the majority of push mowers are battery!!!! Great video always look forward to seeing you and the Grass Rats. Cheers Chris 👍🏻🇦🇺🍻😷
I've seen one before. My old neighbor, old man Fowler is what I called him but his name was Brain Fowler. anyway the was junk dealer. He was in his 90's back then, probably about 25 years ago. He had one, and a lot of other old stuff, he even had a old electric mini bike. I'm pretty sure it all got scrapped when he died. He was WW2 veteran, he was missing part of his ear, he said, he got it shot off in WW2.
People had A Lot more Common Sense back then , unlike today where everything has to be Dumbed down for Clowns !
Taryl tinkering with the 'Good Ol' stuff are the best videos! Side note: dang, that thing makes as much noise as a modern 4 stroke!
made me nervous seeing that on the work table at groin level with the exposed blade spinning away below deck level.
my grandma had a sunbeam mixer that sounded like that beast.
That was fun. Way ahead of its time. I love my old equipment with zero safety features because it makes you learn to be careful which you can carry through life. Plus it's lighter and easier to work on. Just teach your kids the dangers if they're running it.
Yep
@21:40 Love those old Popular Mechanics magazines with their fanciful dreams of utopian ideas of transportation. My dad used to get them.
wheels are yellow. decal is a Black & Yellow buffalo in a circle with giant letters jiffy mower white outlined hollowed center .
4:20 I think you're wrong. I think it will run on either or. Because the charger likely puts out enough current at 6.6v to run it.
They should call that the crappy more instead of jiffy that's why they're not around today not a practical tool
Doesn't it seem mthe bearing in the motor might be alittle on the grabby side ? Meaning they might need some cleaning or new bearings .. They didn't sound to great .
Mark Chriestenson on youtube has a video showing the decal on this mower.
Ever finish this? Or sell it? Buff that baby up to a high polished shine.
Someting about this reminds me of Rosie, the robot maid on "The Jetsons."
Maybe it's the lack of Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics."
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
(wow, three sentences, three different references!)
Chris B Critter Considering the free range safety standards @ the Jiffy Mower design team... more like.. 'Lost in Space'
"Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!"
There were so many magazines back then that tried to be like pop mechanics. Modern Mechanics, Mechanics and Handicraft, Mechanics illustrated, Science and Mechanics, Modern Mechanics & Inventions. Im sure its in there somewhere
Acreage might have had less square feet back then, Taryl. You know how modern math works.
Sorry Taryl, there is no ground. Ground is only with respect to "Earth" Negative battery is not ground....
Don't be to harsh on me >>>>
Automotive calls it ground. Chassis ground.
@@robertp7209 No earth connection....
@@robertp7209 No ground
25:40 You can see the body spark to the front wheel. :D
Bat tree power!!!
Does it have a master switch (for safety) besides the button on the handle? Would be interested to know more about the motor. Is it series wound? What is the ampere draw when free running and under normal load? Great video!
Imagine what a deep cycle battery could do on this thing when it was new.
@NuBz I think the motor has to be designed to deep cycle as well.
Might fry the motor with a 12v deep cycle battery, since motor was made for a 6v battery.
@@paradiselandscapes535 golf cart batteries are deep cycle and are 6 volt.
Awesome, thanks for sharing! I'd throw an 8 volt in it.
I love looking through those old PM magazines. I have a box of them that were my Dad's. I pull em out once in a while and just read em.
I think they got the blueprints from the Sherman tank to build that.
Who needs to yell at kids, to stay off your front lawn, when you have one of these !
Polish it buy going through the sandpapers and then use WD40 for the 1000-4000 grits. It with look awesome.
my grandfather has one of these. I knew it was super rare, I've seen lots of unusual antique mowers but nothing like this. Grandpa collects and restores antique small gasoline engines. We were at a show this weekend when one of your fans found us. Thanks for making this vid!
if it has decal sent Taryl pics .lucky your family has pone super cool
That's a pretty cool old mower!! Nice to see it running again. You certainly come across some really rare stuff. Nice job!!!
Polish that aluminum housing and it could look like a miniature Airstream Trailer on the end of a handle.
I love these antique stuff! Lovely to see! Cheers from Sweden!
If you get that thing up to 88 mph you can go back to 1947
what ever happen to slippers tractors he was fixing.
Absolutely Definitely have to polish that Jiffy Mower!!!! 1947 was heavily influenced by aviation. Plus it would look awesome.
Especially in Wichita, Kansas... The Airplane manufacturing capitol of the world.
That thing is somehow dangerously cool. When its restored you should have Uncle Andy see how many square feet of grass it cuts on a charge.
It's always a good day with a new taryl video
The "Ground-&-Go" switch is where the name Deadman originally came from - if you depended on it to not operate at the wrong time you would certainly be a dead man. The time it takes to coast down once it chops your foot off must have added significantly to the excitement of having a power mower back in the day. This thing probably left a bigger mark on the life insurance industry than it did on grass-cutting technology ... but I think it's great!!!
ohhh that was brought to Earth from aliens from a different solar system, the ones that they made the movie about called The Day the Earth Stood Still in 1951. The aliens were yapping about how Earth would have a carbon gas problem in about 75 years into the future. It would look best as shiny aluminum.
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With guard removed it can't be any more unsafer than a ( not sure) gravely,or bolens?? Brush mower with a saw blade
great work again Taryl; that motor probably has those small spring loaded lubrication ports like old generators and motors did.
That battery cable like slippers works when he wants to. Lol
Hey Taryl, just be careful with those motor windings if you take the motor apart to clean it. Being designed for 6v it's going to be wound with some super beefy wire, but I bet the insulation is incredibly brittle. When a high current motor like that blows to ground it ain't pretty(granted it's unlikely at only 6v), sometimes not even be repairable. I'd send it to your local motor or alternator shop for a good safe cleaning and a fresh hot-dip in varnish.
The company had a patent on it . Best Manufacturing and Equipment Company. "Description of patent, Lawn Mowers. 432.110; Aug. 19 Serial No. 509.690
Published May/06/1947. Class 23. This is all the info. I've seen on it.