Resurrection 1950s TORO SPORTLAWN Lawnmower Power Reel Mower
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2021
- Will it run again vintage street find lawnmower. Step by step revival of a truly special one of a kind historic artifact that was abandoned and left for dead. Please join us in reviving this mechanized wonder of the industrial carbon fueled age.
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Its Shango066 meets Mustie1, awesome!
I actually thought it was video from Mustie1 when i saw it on my feed, what a surprise! Now lets hope Mustie surprises us the same way and resurrects an old tube tv from a free pile on the side of the road!
@@woox2k He did find an old tube radio a few months back, so you never know.
@@woox2k so do i....lol
Mustie has an ultrasonic cleaner - Shango has a lemon tree. Game set match.
@@woox2k same!
Whoever pitched that in the trash obviously doesn't know the value of a dollar. That reel mower is worth some real cash.
Worth a lot more running.
Probably a karen or young teen pitched it.
Our scrap recycler frequently has a reel mower set apart from all the junk mowers and they are usually priced over a hundred and fifty bucks in really poor condition.
They don't hang around, so people must want them.
I can’t believe it runs that well ,, even though you didn’t change out a single capacitor.
And didn't get it up to 88mph (almost,lol)
It does have a mighty “condenser” under the flying wheel next to the points. Probably should replace it with and audiophile quality one for best sparkage
Well done. You have a really wide range of skills.
i also think that
Working on old machinery isn’t much different from old electronics. I’m pretty good with both.
Briggs & Stratton came over on the ark
that was awesome. you remind me of the old days of fixing everything and never throwing anything away.
This video brought back good memories. Ours had the same engine, except you lift the handle to engage the clutch. It had big tires and a wooden handle, and solid metal roller. Dad replaced the muffler many times. You had to run behind. Your commentary is priceless. Thanks for posting.
My grandfather mowed his small Minneapolis lawn once a week with this same mower for years until he passed in 1973.. thanks for the memories
I love this video! While old radios are cool, once you fix them you're stuck w/ today's inferior programs. These mowers bring back memories and, of course, grass still grows!
No safety guards or anything safe about it. When they made stuff like that in the day, people had enough common sense to use it without loosing a hand or toes ! Now days, they have to put a warning label to keep idiots from drinking the battery acid !
I do like some of the safety features on modern lawnmowers like the seat switch on a riding mower. If you fall off or get knocked off by a tree limb by accident, the engine dies. What I find annoying as hell is the reverse safety switch that kills the engine if you back up with the mower deck running. I disabled the stupid thing on my lawnmower. In my opinion, if you are stupid enough to mow your yard with your small children playing outside, you should NOT be allowed to operate a freaking can opener !
The men that used that mower stormed the sea at Normandy,,, no pussys in that generation....
My mower says caution spinning blade on the deck. Like duh!!
In that case the absence of safeties were a safety feature in itself, it was meant to interrupt the lineage .
My neighbor once had the 1968 version of this mower. It had guards over the moving parts, and recoil start. Ran until it threw a connecting rod after 20 years.
I worked with a guy whos mother mowed his arm off when he was a child! SAFTEY FEATURES ARE SO TERRIBLE,
Boy, does this bring back memories from the early 1950s! My dad had one and he was always lubing it and cleaning the spark plug. It started with a rope that had a wooden knob at the end. It did a yeoman's job for many many years. Later, engines from these mowers ended up in mini-bikes and go-karts when rotary lawn mowers became the mower of choice and these reel mowers were either junked, or like yours, pushed to the back of the garage and forgotten. I'm glad to see it still run. Good job and terrific video! Don't forget to lube the drive chains.
That's a fine old specimen of American pride and craftsmanship. Even when it was broke down and rusted up it's better than the cheap Chinese dung sold in big box bargain hunter havens. It's a beautiful thing that you got it running and cut some grass with it. 😁👍🇺🇸
And it still can drag shango's ass all over the place....lol
Now imaging getting one of these 'modern' mowers in the same condition (left in a shed for 60 years) I bet it will never run. Same goes for electronics, you can fairly easily resurrect the first TV's, try that in fifty years with an LCD - no way.
Give it a coat of Briggs and Stratton red paint.
one of your best videos for us wrench heads. loved it
"Found it in the alley" That's the same thing car thieves tell the cops
lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love it that you saved this great old mower, built in the days when quality ruled and no cheapo parts to last a year or two before being junked.
Wait a second this isnt mustie1 channel
There were less idiots back then because of stuff like this. Evolution was allowed to do its thing and weed them out.
Nature's way of thinning the herd.
Too much safety crap these days, how are the kids ever going to learn.
The survival idiots became politicians.
Okay that's enough for me, sticking a screwdriver between the valve in the valve seat and prying and then the vice grip!!!! 😂😂😂😂
I physically cringed and yelled at the screen!
This would look great with a full restoration.
Shango doesn't do restorations.
Not gonna happen..
I remember a similar mower (back in the day) that spun the blades by pushing the mower.person powered.
Thanks for recording this old mower, I had great fun!!
Cheap diesel oil will have the dinosaur guts that this mower needs.
Right you are
also Lucas oil it will stick to the bearings increase compression.
@@petepeterson4540 I would even suggest using some engine restore, to fill in scratches on the cylinder walls.
"The whole thing is just unsafe". Epic quote! It was designed and built by World War II GI's, like my father, who laughed in the face of danger. That said, some fingers, toes, hands, and feet were lost to machines like this.
My cousin lost the pinky finger just like that when he was a little boy back in the 60s they sewed it back on but it's crooked
That's funny, because my granddad was a WWII vet and a hell of a machinist and mechanic, and he taught me a LOT about safety... because besides being grossly inconvenient (hospital bills and inability to do your job), losing a limb because you took the guard off a belt or loaded a tractor the wrong way is just damned foolish.
@@iroll My grandfather was a WWII vet, who was 34 when drafted. He was already an orphan, so they kept him stateside as a drill sergeant. He was the parts manager for a mower plant for 20+ years after he came home.
+2 for the propane setup. I called every Calinazi organization I could find and reported this video for judicious salvage of a useful small machine. You should get some kind of environmental award for this one.
Brad! Fancy meeting you here. I watch your channel often, and we've had some back and forth (some nice ... some not so much), but I love how YT makes the world so small (I'm in shango's neck of the woods - L.A.area), and how connected we all are (whether we know it or not ...lol). Between you, shango, Mr. Carlson, others etc. I might someday actually know/learn electronics to resurrect my old Bandmaster. (ahh, that's a stretch)..but I've got a LONG way to go. Don't really even know the basics. Ya never know.
I was born in 1952 and remember that model as popular on our block.Very cool find!
We had a mower just like this one when I was a kid , I always cut our grass with it , we had the nicest looking lawn in our neighbourhood!
The post apocalyptic inventor would be proud of you.
Sweet! There was a rusty one of these in my garage when I was a kid. Really cool to see one running .
Awesome! what a win!! lots of learning on a mower, especially to let the blades lubricate when in touch with the grass
The reason why you could get this running again: Made in USA!! Need I say more? Great video, no surprise that you got it going.
Simple tough and reliable just the way I like it. Great find.
Wow, nice find. I have an affection for old reel type mowers.
They've made a come back tho!
Damn, i've jim-jammed some sh*t in my day, but you showed me there are depths still to be plumbed....thanks, Shango! You rock!
I gave 1 of these away 3 months ago to a old man, It ran like new. He loves it, said he had one just like as a kid doing lawns. All i can say hope you can walk fast.
Great video! Love the old mowers!
You did a good thing rescuing these. All parts can be bought. That's a foot valve in the take up tube .I never saw propane used as fuel. Good video.
That mower will probably run until Jesus comes back.
Amen
Actually not that far away
so lucky to find such things.. ive always wanted lawnmowers from 50's like these in general and if i was to find anything its probably more than i could afford lmao.
Like me, your living in the wrong area
yeah sadly that's the case and its weird cause area i live in is also from late 1800's early 1930's and think id find stuff like this sitting out waiting. but i guess its either sold or given away or was to late.
That is a very neat machine a real testament to quality.
It was made in the 1950's when people cared about quality
Survivorship bias, look it up.
@@GoldSrc_ that's assuming that this machine outperformed others of that Era.
I was gonna watch this briefly and go to the end and see what happened...but this was funny. And the fact that you didn't have to pull flywheels, gap points and it sounded that good...that was awesome. Very entertaining.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this upload. I follow/watch all your work (it's all good stuff, and decided to bing watch previous uploads), but will say, this has been refreshing. I hope you consider uploading something like this (mechanical resurrections) every once in a while in addition to the tech and obviously the underground adventures you share. TY for posting,
I'm sure California loves that old motor! Such a fun video. Luckily you can get zinc additive for modern oil.
Great fun video. Thanks Shango. I always look forward to your videos. You put a smile on a shitty day for me.
We got one about 1955 I was seven at the time and mowed the lawn every other day! honestly the best mover I have ever used, today's Safety mowers have nothing on that beauty, of course back then even a 7 year old had more common sense then todays adult!
That was super cool to see a vintag lawn mower being made to run and it will last forever.
I was saying to myself, 'there is no chance in hell he will get a spark out of that''... How did those points keep their surface I dunno.
Great idea with the propane too. I am hoping this video goes well. Shango deserves some big returns.
Although this is not an electronics video I did not hit the dislike because I figured "why not do something a bit different". Shango definitely needs more subs.
Tungsten points.
@@wayneessar7489 Is that so?
@@martinda7446 I believe they were because you needed an extra hard file to dress them.
@@wayneessar7489 Thanks Wayne that is pretty cool to know...Could have done with a few sets back in the day..
excellent vid - you are a man of multiple talents
Thanks for sharing, Shango066. That awesome old classic mower turned out beautifully.... mega-kudos on your rescuing and resurrection of it. :-)
Great job Mr Lawn mower man.
I learned alot of things watching those video 🙏👍
Very cool, you, sir, are indeed a Jack of all Trades. I can recall the first lawn mower Dad picked up for our yard. It was the push type mower, like that except no motor. Back then you had to keep fit if you wanted a nice looking lawn. Our house sat on 1/2 a city block so it took a couple of days to get the whole yard done, by that time the first half was ready to be mowed. Dad saw me working so damn hard mowing the yard that he borrowed his brother's Ford Tractor and 2 bottom plow, he plowed up the south quarter block and put it in to potatoes. Then instead of mowing, I had to weed the damn thing. I think I like the mowing better, but man those home grown potatoes were great when you boiled them right after digging them out of the ground,
Loved the video, miss my reel mower - they are fun
"Nothing this unsafe could be sold today" It could but would need 10,000 warning labels plastered all over it & a licensed operator to use it. Thank you for saving it. AWESOME!
However, things only cause cancer if they're used in California a la Prop. 65. They're safe everywhere else.
Very cool find! I have a vintage manual reel mower that I still mow with. And, with proper maintenance, it continues to work like a dream.
i am 73 years and use to run one of these at 10 years old.. I was told what to do to start and run. No injuries because I and was careful and used COMMON SENSE. Thanks for the great memories
We had one like that from 1960s. My dad and I made a mini bike out of it. Had an old Briggs engine. Had to replace the magnet and McGiver a better pull start. In 1980 they young kid down the street took it. The frame needed welding. He and his dad made some upgrades and enjoyed it. Brought back great memories of my dad.
Thank you.
We had one like that when I was a kid! I think it started with first rope pull most of the time. As a kid, it was fun to follow it around our large yard. When I was 6, we got one of those new ones that was 22” and had side discharge. Had to push those! Thanks for bringing back the memory!
Ahhh, the good ol days before feminism. We had our wives bring us a beer and a cigarette as we were sitting in our metal clamshell lawn chair on the patio when our 7 children were gone who knows where with the neighborhood children running behind the barrel of a DDT mosquito spray nozzle . Primetime Ozzie and Harriot. Before we had the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat of ABC wide world of sports clogging up the airwaves. Of course, the signature Gleason, "To the moon, Alice"!
Good old "mothers little helpers" were in full effect to deal with it all
@@DanafoxyVixen What a drag it is getting old.
Just remember that those wives had likely been working the line at some factory during the war. Our fathersnail's mum was a 'Rosie the Riveter' in Buffalo during The War...
@@chezsnailez Not in the fifties. Their generation was called, "the lost generation. (born approx in the 30's) You're talking about their parents, "the greatest generation". When did "Rosie the riveter" burn her bra in defiance of men ?
@@mycomment474 ~ the housewives of the Fifties _were_ of the 'Greatest Generation' (1901/1927) - with the 'Silent Generation' (1928/1945) joining them in the latter half. The 'Lost Generation' was born around the late 1883/1900.
BTW Betty Friedan (author of The Feminine Mystique and considered the founder of modern feminism) was born in 1921.
Indeed, a fascinating look into the past. Not all that distant and perfectly preserved... old gas and all!
Awesome find and great work shango!
Shango you are the best at anything you touch. I was amazed at how you made the mower run.
I grew up mowing with that same mower..the mechanics of it facinated me and inspired my lifetime of playing with engines
LOVED THAT!! Thanks Dan, it really amazes me how you know so much about such a wide variety of subjects. And you’re not bullshitting your way through it either, you actually know what you’re talking about. BTW my sister and B-I-L had that exact same mower under their porch up in Mass. Last time I visited I went to dig it out and resurrect it but it was gone. They took it to the dump the fools!
Two reasons that 1952 mower still runs. One, things last forever in that dry California climate, and Two, nobody can fix things quite like Shango. Very entertaining video.
That thing is friggin awesome, especially the autopilot mode.
Nice Shango! Very entertaining and historical. Take care!
Used one of these as a kid back in the sixtys.It was a bear to operate but did a great job.
Awesome save! I was watching and thought...finally! Some who goes through all the same disasters as you save the Toro. That’s a sweet machine! I’m a big fan of reels.
So you are not only on TV, but also on motors! Cool!
Outstanding! It looked like you were really enjoying getting that beast running again. Very impressive!
What a wonderful find! I'm indeed envious.
Amazing that thing runs again. But that's the way those things were built. Still works after nearly 70 years. Your talent on fixing things is top notch! There were even no capacitors you had to change!
Excellent video !!! ... Really enjoyed it Dan !!!
I use to push a Toro like that back in the 60's under my Dad's guidance. Got left in upstate New York after Dad died and took us back to California (still sane back then.........
Lovely bit of vintage machinery, looks like it cuts that grass very well, thanks for sharing the ressurection of a cool piece of technology!
When I was young we had an old Sears reel mower. Always did a nice cut.
Love finds like this, nothing better than taking something left out to die brought back to life.
The old Briggs and Stratton engine's are first class and beats any Chinese engine you can buy today my lawn mower is 40 years old and starts year after year it even runs on older petrol (Briggs) engine
My mower is 25. So far only the plastic carb. fell apart. After replacing it, still runs great.
I got sick of my 'modern' motor gumming up in the off season, chucked it away and fitted a 1 horse induction (electric) motor. Yeah the cord can be a pain, but it just runs, no last minute dash to the petrol station, and no more fumes - cut grass without gas fumes is SO much better.
Another Great Way To wake up on a Saturday morning watching Shango tackle something and bringing it back to life....and let's not forget the patented airplane noise the background. Reminds me of the old Sky king show in the early 60's Saturday morning. Perfect...absolutely perfect.
. . . and his "niece," Penny.
Yet another testament to the quality of old USA-made stuff.
As a former mechanic and radio enthusiast I do enjoy your mechanical videos and electronics videos. Cool old mower would be a good resto candidate
YYYESSS!!! EXCELLENT! More like this! I’ve been saying for a long time that if Mustie1 would just do electronics, the world would be complete, but having Shango do engines is just as complete! 😊😊😊
Cool find I have one of those good mower definitely a workout but fun to use. Great work 👍
I remember getting a used power rotary mower as a kid! After using a hand rotary, it was a joyous moment.... other than the fact that you’d get sprayed with all sorts of crap while mowing!!
I'd have been more surprised if that old Briggs didn't run!
Brigg's and Stratton went chinese too, what a shame.
Depends on the engine. They still have a plant in Auburn, AL and recently announced plans to expand it.
Why do think they worked hard to get Trump out and put in Chinese loving Biden
@@patrickjones5518 hahaha. Yeah and after Biden was inaugurated Briggs announced a multi million expansion to their US plant.
Trump talked tough on China.. Did very little except hurt American Farm exports. Congratulations on making this about politics when it isn't, great job.
American made : "Briggs and Stratton". China made: "Breaks and Scrap-iron"
@@cpmaverick The engines are assembled in America, from Chinese parts.
Shango, I heard that laugh when the thing first started running on its own. Sounded like Mustie! Something inside you just appreciates something this old getting a second chance on life. Bravo!
Those old power reel mowers are so cool. Nice save!
Old reel mowers have such a cool factor since Everything is rotary.
Hey shangooo it's me Joe you can actually hear the excitement in your voice once you.seen it had spark more than I've heard from you in the past working on electrical stuff maybe you missed your.calling great video stay safe God bless p.s. you can't beat them old Briggs and Strattons purrrrring like a kitten I'll bet you if that was made today and it was 70years later that wood not be running
As a dude from Eastern Urop, that's a Tom and Jerry mower.
Good job! That was cool how you ran it on propane. I never would have thought about that, or using a drill to start it. Smart!
You just took me back to my childhood! Yes, in the 1960s you could turn an 11 year old kid loose with one of these. In my case it was a 1949 vintage REO Royale with a REO slant one engine. Later when my Dad replaced it with a rotary mower, I inherited the engine to take apart and tinker with. It started a lifelong hobby of engine rebuilding. Now what are the wimpy coddled and insulated kids of today going to do for a hobby? Hotrod an Iphone? I don't think so!
So cool getting old stuff working again. Nice job Shangoman.
Shango, great stuff, it'll be good to get another roller put in, it'll give your lawn some stripey goodness👍😁. Wonderfully cool machine. I restored a 60s battery mower some years ago, which I believe is still going.
My childhood was spent in the family’s Motor Engineering business in the Dales of North Yorkshire U.K.
Every year, around August we’d get a flood of farmers dragging their Briggs & Stratton Elevator engines in for service/repair..
The abuse those motors can take and bounce back from gives me hope…👍
Great video. Nice to see you expand your repertoire. Never would have expected green rubber gloves.
Pretty sweet to see you work on something other than a television (which inspired me to revive a Sears black and white from 1964)
This is a crowning achievement. Basically put “ there is too much oil in it but no problem the valves are getting lubricated.” This video should be put in the Smithsonian.
Yup its well oiled now.☺☺ hell yes!!! Love the vid
What a nice mower, glad to see you were able to resurrect it.