cummins lawn mowers

[tpruitt]

is there any type of lawn mower that has a cummins motor. there was one a while ago but i do not have the name of it. anything that has between 60 and a 72 inch deck. i have found a Dixie Chopper that has a 50hp yahnmar diesel in it but i cant find one with the cummins.

 

[4 RAM TRACKS]

lawn eqipment

Heck yes,

Its made by MTD. They make a weed eater also, for those with

large coconuts!

 

[4 RAM TRACKS]

lawn equipment

here is the tractor

 

[Mactruck]

Good one!



:-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[bighammer]

Very creative! Nice work shoe-horning that B into a garden tractor. I'll bet the weed wacker gets real tiresome to carry around in a VERY short time.

 

[4 RAM TRACKS]

weed eater

It has the optional shoulder strap, with extra padding

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

That would rock if a garden tractor could be had with a small straight six diesel, Cummins or not. The closest deal I have seen are the 3-cylinder variety found in Kubota, Ford, J-D and so forth.



In the meantime if someone wanted to get their diesel fix while mowing the grass, I've been fairly successful at running straight #2 in my Briggs & Stratton powered lawnmower. It's a bit finicky when it comes to starting it, but once it starts to warm up it runs great: NW BOMBers "Mowed the lawn on diesel power"



Copied/pasted since BOMBers board has been having lots of issues lately:

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It was lawn-mowing day, and since the mower was outa gas and I only had diesel on hand, that's what it got to drink. After fillup the tank was at least 80% diesel.



I had serious doubts it would run at all, but with a few pushes of the primer button it did fire, with lots of smoke. It ran about 5 seconds and died. About 3 more rounds of this and it kept going, and after a couple minutes the smoke cleared completely. I mowed the front yard and it ran great. It would puff a bit of light blue smoke when loaded a bit and rattled some but otherwise sounded almost normal.



I parked the mower for 45 minutes, then drained the tank completely and filled up with straight diesel. I wanted to see how it would run since I figured there was enough gas in it before to basically initiate the combustion process. Since it was parked for awhile I didn't know if it would start. The motor was only warm to the touch by then. The primer button trick worked again, but making bigger clouds of white/blue smoke (and smelling wonderful by the way! ) when it fired. After 4 rounds of this I found that as soon as it would begin losing power, pumping the button would keep it going. After about 2 minutes of this it was able to sustain the fire and motored smoothly at a fast idle. At this point point the smoke was almost gone. Another minute and there was no visible smoke at all. I then proceeded to mow the back yard. Ran great, good power, but the grass wasn't heavy enough to load it much. When there was enough to load it, it would rattle and make a bit of black smoke, but otherwise it didn't smoke one bit. The exhaust odor was peculiar, smelled a bit diesely, but the overall it wasn't nearly as strong as when running gas. I also noted it seemed to use less fuel than usual.



Here's the interesting part. I shut it off once by pulling the spark plug wire. Any guesses on how it behaved by shutting it down this way?



Restarting it hot always required once primer button push. A quick puff of blue smoke and it was off to the races.



So that was my diesel fun for the night. Moderators: I demand a new forum for Briggs & Stratton Diesels!!!



Vaughn

 

[CROW]

About five years ago I loaned my Honda lawnmower to a neighbor (don't really like to loan it but hard to refuse). He brought it back and about a week later I started to mow the grass and the darn thing would not start. That is unusual for a Honda. Finally another neighbor and I diagnosed the problem; the fellow who borrowed it had inadvertently filled up the gas tank with kerosene. After draining and filling with gas, it finally started and smoked for the longest time. That was almost as bad as the time my son filled it up with used motor oil I had in a five gallon can sitting next to the gas can. Funny now.

 

[d90boy]

Don't think there's a Cummins mower out there but this Ferris is available with a Cat motor. They look awesome, the motor is yellow of course and the mower has these Cat diesel power badges on the side.



http://www.ferrisindustries.com/mz_is5000z.php