Mad Max mower with built in firewood saw!!. Will it run ??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- When I picked up the Bristol 25 bulldozer last month, I noticed this old Power Pony ride on tractor with a built in homemade firewood saw bench so I offered to get it running for the owner.
Very cool machine.
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Thanks Dan for your help on this project - / @worldslayer85
I was just waiting for that thing to throw the saw blade a couple of miles. Offset mower deck is a nice touch too. Just needs a vertical chainsaw to trim bushes as you drive past.
Maybe a coffee maker to keep you going
"She's a bit of a sketchy machine" is the best quote yet. What a terrifying contraption!
Can you rig it with the mower and the saw going at the same time or do they use the same pulley? I would pay money to see you cheerily walking behind that death trap, sawing wood and mowing the lawn at the same time. The person who made it must have been some sort of mad, rural genius.
Loosely strapping the petrol tank to the top of that mechanical spinning mess was a masterstroke, well in keeping with the rest of the madness.
Yeah it looks really safe with those belts running around your elbow! 😂👍
One belt on the saw, one on the mower and you could mow and trim hedges at the same time.
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Hey Marty. Your dont know how much you and your channel have done for me. I always enjoy your content! Love from America. Hope I have the pleasure of shaking your hand someday mate!
''Hey,what's up mate? I just finished mowing the lawn with my ''saw bench''...LOL. That is a special machine, never ''saw'' anything like that before. Tks , it's always nice to see new things.
You’re actually a genius. It’s so entertaining to basically see a real life Tony Stark work his magic haha good job man 👍
You need to hot rod that thing and bring it to the southern states for their lawn mower races! That thing would be lit!!
That thing you called a fuel filter is the fuel pump. It uses piston pulses from the crankcase to move a diaphragm to pump fuel. Small engines have been using that method for decades
Satan must have forgot where he parked his mower.
Maybe once in a lifetime you'll come across macines as quirky as this and you will HAVE try and resurrect them. Well done !!! Great stuff, highly enjoyable, thanks for sharing from an old Yorkshire "Geezer" in Ireland.
Really cool to see the old equipment back up and running again!
All that old stuff needs is tobacco spit and elbow grease then it runs like a dime! Prime example.
neglect beat the ever living shite out of that thing. I know this fella will get it going
Man I get so happy when I see you in the feed!
Well done Marty T, you just increased the trade/purchase price of that mower/firewood saw by 200% thanks for sharing
I lost 3 fingers just watching this
I leaned back when he got the saw going lol.
@@tyronepearson5327 so did I lmao
That's not dangerous at all.
You must have missed the end.
LMAO
Nice one, you managed to resurrect the death machine.
This sort of reminds me of the old Garden Mark Squire that has been passed down in our family since the 60's. It has a bucksaw attachment that bolts on the front and drives off of a forward extension of the engine's crankshaft. That old warhorse still mowed, still sawed, and tilled a garden until about 2 yrs ago... Time to rebuild the 1964 8hp Briggs... Parts, that's the hard part.
Man I'd like to see that. You should post a short video walkaround
Everyone should aspire to a Mad Max mower!
A V-twin engine! That should make some serious power. Looks like it is running quite rich. Most likely the carburetor needs a rebuild. Quite a machine indeed!
That contraption has death and dismemberment written all over it in bright neon letters! Love it.
Got another giggle, thanks Marty :)
You're a really clever bloke.
Love your videos.
Pull that carb,clean it and lean it up. Running waaay rich. Sounded fantastic for a few seconds when it leaned out running out of gas!
Well spotted, yeah it sounded racy just for a second.
Man i don't know why i love your channel and your work
Came for the amputation, stayed for the tetanus. That thing is cool. I want one.
Awesome machine Marty.. Back in the day folks did what they had to do to get the job done, instead of running out to buy every little gadget at Lowe's, like so many people do today.
When I was 14 on our sheep ,beef farm in waikato .my job was firewood. We had a saw like that behind a 80 hp JD tracktor . I busted 2x blades hitting a gate gudgen. And a t post ingrown in an old tree.. great memory. Love your channel.
WOW... That's one wicked looking lawnmower.
So glad to see young guys being DIY Mechanics as us old guys are fading away...
this has to be the most unsafe machine ive seen this year lol.
I thought the same thing.. that's a loss of a limb just waiting to happen LOL
it's perfect
Buzz saws are very safe. Stupid people use them wrong and loses limbs. No different then any saw
Even the smartest people have accidents. Sheesh1
@@adamgould7061 Hardly need to be 'stupid' to have an accident when there's a metre of totally exposed saw blade, and plenty of potential to trip on something.
Working on mowers myself I think the choke is on the left in the throttles on the right and you keep checking it out out
you looked surprised when it started , I think so far you have a high success rate
of getting old things started and moving . New stuff is different with computers .
There was a time when something like that buzzsaw was a huge labor saving device. We laugh now, but there are still a lot of those type saws used today.
I recall one mounted on a Farmall M running on a flat belt pulley on a Farm in the 1960s.
Saw some videos on Russian backcountry farms. They still use similar home made saws powered by their cultivators. Log splitters too.
I used to have four Power Ponys, 16 & 18 hp models, two with front end loaders, one with a rotary hoe, and the was set up for spraying, good NZ built tractors
I just love watching your videos, I just never know what your going to come up with, stay safe buddy 🚜
Saw a glimpse of a J series Bedford truck sitting in the elements, how sad they just let this stuff rot. Farmers are notorious for this.
This looks like some dodgy as contraption that Wile E. Coyote would order out of the Acme catalogue...
LMAO 😂
Not joking!
Thats one awesome little machine............Thumbs Up Marty
Like watching you fix hydraulics, and ofcourse engines, one step at a time. Spark, fuel, air and with whatever it takes
What a fun project to work on! 👍
You should add a speaker that plays the guitar riff from 'shake hands with danger' every time that thing is operated
That leaver you are using for the throttle is the choke. That’s why it runs rich when you push it ahead and runs smooth when you pull it back..
What a machine! The one who designed it has got to be one smart feller! Being that old Marty be careful of flying parts. There's no dead machine that you can't bring back to life Marty, with your friend...😁 Take care my brother. ~Jay~.
I bought this really cheap from a guy they called “Lefty”
yeah.....3 fingers Lefty.....
@@bigrobnz No hand lefty i think lol
Old No-toes Lefty, I remember him from when I worked in casualty.
He was armless enough
lmao good one
oddly enough, not the sketchiest firewood machine i've ever seen online.
Largest mower deck I have even seen
"sketchy" is the understatement of the year. That thing is a dismemberment waiting to happen. LOL
Looks like a contraption my grandad had rigged up on his farm in South America. Good for all sorts of things. Including disposal of one's enemies...but then I've said too much.
Good on ya mate. Good to see a bit of number eight used to tie fuel tank to engine cover. Kiwi ingenuity at its best!
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That's brilliant it can still mow too.
I think “sketchy” might have been a generous term on your part Marty.
I love that you bring life back to these old machines and actually put them to work. Well done! Looking forward to more great videos like this.
Nice thinking of the owner, All-Season usecases for the machine!
I have owned motorcycles almost continuously since the early 1970s and they all had one thing in common, gravity fed fuel. All except the last 3. The first was a 535 Yamaha and the next 2 were Suzuki 800 Boulevards. While the electric fuel pumps on the last 3 have been very reliable, I just wish I had the gravity feed because it is one less thing to break. This lawn mower/saw bench is reminiscent of the Allis Chalmers tractor barn find you had in a later video you made. It had a saw bench attachment also.
I laughed out loud when you got out the bailing wire.
Baling and a pair of pliers can fix anything.
......and duct tape
Shooting the trailer for SAW NZ holiday edition...
« ...She’s a sketchy machine but she seems to go alright » You said it! 😂
I enjoy the channel, love seeing what you drag out next!
It looks like something we'd draw as kids as The Ultimate Death Machine.
Marty strikes again. Great job man.
You should have your own reality show, bringing old once great machines back to life...you can start with my 1987 mascot mower, ....
Nice job on that old machine! Once the rust was nocked off of the blade it wore off those wood pieces nice and slow! lol. Thumbs up.
LOL nothing says kiwi farmer, like mowing a lawn with a spinning wheel of death right next to your carotid artery. Love these videos Marty, well done.
hahahaha
Was missing two things. Flip flops and a beer.. o and smoking a joint..
@@briandufty1609 two diffent flip flops
@@billr1128 not sure what you mean. J andle is what you wear. Flip is the sting of a fist in your right ear and flop is what happens when u hit the ground. Am I missing sumthin.!.
Burt Munros mower???
I think I'll print out a few pictures of this machine and give them to my insurance agent...
Haha.. I bet he's never seen one of these
I can just picture the farmer who put this together :)
Yeah, he owned a homestead called, Missing Limbs Farm!
10:37 This needs to be your new meme there Marty seriously funny
She's running rich/ still on choke!
Pretty cool machine! It looks like they ran it without an air cleaner. So either the carburetor is full of crap, or the engine ingested a lot of dirt. That coupled with the fact the cooling port on the front cover was clogged up. Probably not a lot of hours left in that engine. Pretty cool engineering though.
This is really neat lawn mower/ saw, thanks for sharing your video
The missing air filter does make a difference, it changes the carburettor vacuum which can have widespread effects especially if a vacuum ignition advance is fitted!
The original Mad Max ( not the hokey remake ) and The Road Warrior were genius Aussie movie making. That saw is probably good to go with a blade sharpening and the tilting table looks well designed.
12:45
“Oh my God.”
Marty: puts sunglasses on. 😎
The air was cleaner back in the day, didn’t need a filter🤔
All we needed was something to keep the birds out.
You are joking, of course! I've never seen a Briggs & Stratton engine that didn't use an air filter, unless it was on a Snow Blower!
Thanks
Dam that looks lethal
I don’t know how you always get away with just adding gas when it comes to the fuel. Lucky bastard. In my experience if there’s a carb it’s gummed up and has to come apart and the tank is always full of rust . 😂
What a Beast! I want one. Love your work Mart.
That thing is pure Mad Max. I love it
That looks like something right out of chitty chitty bang bang!
That's a diaphragm fuel pump that either works off a rod and cam or piston movement and crankcase pressure.
The diaphragm also acted as the body gasket.
Most likely it has dried out and become brittle.
Should be relatively cheap to get drop shipped.
You really should tear that carb apart and give it a good cleaning.
Especially if that tank has old fuel in it.
First thing you should do is take off the carb's float bowl and look for gunk in it and that the float moves freely.
Myself, I'd tear down the carb and completely clean it.
Check the crankcase breather filter.
If it's clogged up that can be the cause of the smoky exhaust.
That is a fuel pump that has a diaphragm in it.
👍Crankcase pulse diaphragm pump😂
Yep I figured that out, it was not working
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@@MartyT Yeah, the diaphragm is mostly rock hard after sitting so long.
Probably perished and holed, thats why fuel was coming out weep hole
Super cool saw. Love inventors and madmen who make stuff because they need it.
Built not bought ftw!
Three things ,some JD gators use a similar vacuum fuel pump (similar ),that saw style must have been common a friend of mine brought one from California to BC also there was one in the farmall video and was that a Ford baler in the weeds Cheers
Spinning blade of death 💀
Him: @12:43 puts on safety glasses...
me: yeah like that’s going to help! Lol
I saw that and laughed so hard. Giant spinning wheel of death, engage safety shades.
This guy has experience of machines fix right parts for it get to moving forward big saw awesome video keep up the good work friend bless you happy holidays Thanksgiving
That thing is running unbelievably rich. It's why she started revving up as the fuel ran out.
Everyone is saying it's dangerous looking, but it doesn't look like it's designed to be driven around while the saw is running. No more dangerous than any other mill saw at that point.
A bit like my grandpas PTO driven firewood saw.
I call it.... the delimbinator!
We had a similar saw (no guards) mounted on the front of an old Farmall F20. Dangerous as all getout but fun! If I still had the saw I'd definitely mount it on my lawnmower.
Mower seems to leave cut grass only between the wheels. Does the sheet metal outboard right side hide another blade that isn’t working?
Thats right, one drive belt is missing
fine piece of machinery
In the dictionary this is what a con-trap-tion is, everything needs sharpening, nice job Marty
I was wincing when the cameraman walked directly into the plane of rotation of that blade, and paused there. Talk about flaunting death
Our "dads & Grandfathers" made some pretty epic stuff alright.. "OrsumNess"
I’m sure that got thumbs up from from a safety standpoint!!😂😂😂😂😂
That is a really interesting machine.
I reckon they built this for Mad Max II, but couldn’t get an import clearance!!
LOL
Ha ha
Hard case,
I'd forgotten about the evil Power Pony.
Made in Tauranga, no less...
About as stylish as a Trekka, but they did the job.
Cool.
"What's the gearbox feel like?" *Lurch*
I watching all.your videos they're very therapeutic
Wow!! Mad Max!! Awesome work!
Lol this sorta reminds me of Belle's dad in Beauty and the Beast with the wood chopping machine 😂