Yes Tom, little gun violence back then because it was a moral and ethical society. Nowadays the left wants/needs gun control because the the country has become amoral and unspiritual. And the kicker is that the country has become that way because of the left’s ideology!
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First day of vacation today, “relaxed” some, enjoying the nice weather. Well, can’t sit still whole day, chunked 6 bags of wood (which is’nt much for the wood-guzzling Chevy) and did a little work on the outboard build.
A rough cardboard template for the bottom attachment.
Cutting down exhaust.
Cut out a plate, had a hard time trying to do some precision plasma cutting, there was some horseflies circling around, biting me
It can actually be seen in two places where i shake the torch, because them blood-sucking monsters bit me
Template for the engine.
I found a piece big enough to have room for the holes. I had no shorter bolts in inches thread, therefore i put the pieces of pipe on them, and some rubber, as vibration insulation.
Lineing it up, needs a 76mm high piece as a “base”.
Cutting a groove in the bottom shaft coupler, and the shaft, to weld in a “key” a piece of lawnmower blade worked good for this.
Hope the pic’s talk for themselves some
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Were they the black ones with the white dot on the back? We have them and Ouch! It hurts when they bite.
The other one is the deer fly, smaller light gray with black bars on the wings. 1/2 the ouch but we have a lot more of them at times. Right now lots of mosquitos at sunset, those females are looking for blood to reproduce.
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Yes, black ones with white dots, about 3/4" long, i wasn’t sure about the translation, and if we got the same species, we call them “broms” in Swedish.
They bite in the same millisecond they land on you, Ouch! is a very good description.
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Broms I like that name. That’s what I will call them for now on. " I got bitten by a brom" people will look at me, what did you say. A brom, a brom. Better than saying a horse fly a horse fly. Horses can’t fly.
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You wanna get technical Bob?
Plural “s” is rarely used in Swedish, unless it’s a Swenglish word. Instead it ends with -ar or -or for plural. One broms, two bromsar. Broms also means brake, as in brake pedal or brake drum. If you mention brom without any ending most Swedes will think of an element in the periodic table.
Sorry for the schooling 
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Hit the broms! We all got bit by the brom at one time! Bad grades were worse then bromsar bites in our house. 
I think i got that right.
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Thank you for the schooling. I appreciate it.
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It became a outboard engine after all 
Left to do is test it in water.
Man, those Kohler engines run smooth, and starts easy. I’ve probably don’t dared to start a Briggs & Stratton engine this way, without a “balancing” blade, had some horrible kick-back’s that way, once a B&S engine pulled the handle out of my hand, taking some skin with it, and whipped my inner arm. Anyone knowing why they act that way? To light flywheel to save material? Or the Easy-spin starting not working correctly without a load?
Piece of pipe as a “adapter” the cut-out is for reaching the oil drain plug, and to keep an eye on the shaft coupler.
Piece of pipe as handle, yes, it’s on the wrong side, but im left handed, and prefer to steer with my right hand
This engine had a fixed speed governor, and only a safety grip, braking the flywheel, i modifyed it some, cut the spring for the stop-brake, and attached the governor spring to a lawnmower push-pull cable instead of the fixed point.
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You are amazing.
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Test ride, test ride, test ride! 
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A hell of a red neck outboard. When you are going to test it, make sure it doesnt change to an inboard
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Good job of it Goran.
Most of the Briggs for rotary lawn mowers engines have very lightweight flywheel with the installed cutting blade accounting for four stroke carry trough flywheel effect.
Horizontal shaft Briggs almost always have heavy flywheels for just a pulley belt drive. Some, only some, of their small vertical shaft engines do have the heavy flywheels too.
Interesting note for a time Briggs and Stratton did make their air-cooled flatheads as an outboard assembly. Worked O.K. Painted overall with marine anti-corrosive paint.
Noisy in caparison to a water jacketed purpose outboard engine.
You will now find if for your purposes you will have to prop change that lower to account for the lower maximum engine RPM, maybe.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Thanks Jan, i just try to do something with all my saved stuff 
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Soon to be, maybe a youtube video? If it works somewhat satisfactory, so i don’t make a fool of myself 
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Thanks SteveU, and good information about the Briggs engines, just what i suspected about them flywheels.
About the prop i think it would work somewhat, it’s from a bigger engine, about 8hp, this lawnmower engine is only 5hp, it should compensate some for the lower rpm, otherwise i have a 15hp propeller to try, or maybe make my own prop? That would need some calculations to keep my brains excercised.
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What Jan said. I’d still be looking at the parts and scratching my head and here you have it assembled. I didn’t know prop size was gauged by horsepower. Still learning.
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Chunked up some wood today, but had to stop, and did some much needed repairs on my buzz-saw/chunker.
The plate where the chunks come out from the knifes had been loose for a good time, and become distorted so chunks can get stuck under it, stopping up the conveyor. Real irritating when it stops every once.
Hammered the plate back to normal, and welded it to the chute, so chunks cant get stuck and bend it. When i was done, it was to late to start chunking, have to be nice to the neighbours.
A sneak peek at my axle chunker, built it long time ago, when i got a big load of slab-wood for free.
Got the inspiration from a build in Finland i found on the net, i later discovered that Wayne was the inventor of the axle chunker
I need to “dig it out” from it’s hibernation.
If i couldn’t make some noise cutting wood, i could offer some “fireworks”, took the plasma cutter and made a new sieve for my garden mulcher.
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I commend your energy. I not sure you understand what vacation means. Of course I’ve never been able to sit around doing nothing either. I think you are supposed to take some time to pet the wife and play with the dog.
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30C=86F, but it feels like when it was close to 100F at Wayne’s place.
I managed to go harvest a bunch of thinning in the jungle. Soaked in sweat and breathing 50% air - 50% moscitos, it was a relief coming home and start chunking.
I can now spend the rest of the day sitting in the shade watching the chunks dry.
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