Probably the extensions and it runs a lot faster. It looks like it was designed for mining ore carrying big heavy rocks. Most of our grain or hay elevators use belt drives with .75hp 110v motors not a hardcore gear reduction boxes.
keeping that thing full is going to be a workout… but if that isn’t enough of a work out, it could double as a treadmill. 
If I were younger I might emigrate. Apparently in Sweden everything is made out of stainless and it’s just laying around to be picked up and something amazing like a conveyor is free for the picking. From the pictures JO has posted, everyone has their own lake and there are big piles of wood stacked everywhere one drives and Jan just drives his tracked Iller with it’s hydraulic grappler on a trailer and loads it up. 
You don’t have it too bad either. You have a plethera of small game. There is plenty of wine within stumbling distance. If you get bored, you can go look for petoskey stones. And it is dead quiet about 9 months out of the year.
Tom, you got that pretty much right. There’s one problem though - we’re low on garbage. We even import garbage from other countries, but still not enough 
Now, that you mention you need more garbage. I am going to start interpreting “forgotten” more loosely and potentially a more socially acceptable synonym for “curb shopped” from all this garbage you are importing. If I recall correctly those solar panels that were installed on the side of the building were ‘forgotten’ as well.
I just have a hard time imagining being so incredibly wealthy and have so much space that I would simply forget about 1000+ dollar large items.
I like that 20 times
It will be a freightliner…
this found me yesterday while i was running ice.
4 good tires and working water heater
tires are 18" though. they’ll fit something sooner or later…or we’ll use for barter goods.
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I’m the same way. Anything I can grab off the side of the road I’ll jump out and grab. Found two hot water heaters and some spare wheels that way.
forum member thierry trigaux from canada is also a proud owner of a nice oliver crawler…
Not with an updraft charcoal gasifier. I never tried it with a downdraft gasifier but no big deal because you said it started on coalgas very easily.
Good Morning MarcusN.
Nice find on the walk-behind mower.
Just what you need for our variable conditions heavy early Spring growths here PNW Wetside.
Working and commuting a fellow has to slam-out a full mowing in limited amounts narrow time frames.
Get behind, or want to mown areas growths expand you know well you can force a powered machine like this to hog out dense growth stuff. (have to bungie cord pump up open; or stick wedge open the side discharge flap to do this)
Why a reel-type sweat powered push mower is unrealistic for anyone truly Rural. Only as TomH said you have teener kids you want to keep busy after school on postage stamp lots.
You, JacobN and his brother Luke saw my shop stack up of old used up until unusable walk-behinds. I have decks, handles bases, and wheel axles complete worn out those out doing our actually 1/2 acre around the house “yard”. And the mandated added 3 acres of former cow pastures down at Yacolt home. Very uneven ground with poking up rock shoulders and remains tree stumps roots hollows.
I hadn’t yet brought up the two old beat to sh#t JD rider mowers I’d worn out in the last decade since I turned 60 y.o.
Here some tips to make it live useable longest.
Use Casterol 5W-50 synthetic engine oil. Machine tipped over spill dumped it out as soon as it colors. At gasoline ran out until engine stopped
Before every use, spray can wet down with plastics safe silicone spray those plastic wheels at the steel axles insides and out. An oil or grease there will attract dirts and dusts Increasing wears. No-No.
Last. Do store inside of some type of building. Out on the ground even drape covered the rising ground moistures will react with the clinging grass trash underneath, and the deck corrosions thin greatly. The deck then tin-can rips at the axles base mounting points.
Enjoy the pushing sweating mowing. Just the thing after the hour and a half ass-sitting commute.
Steve Unruh
Bought this Murray off of my Uncle Otis.
These lawn tractor mowers have a significant problem of letting rainwater collect in the air cleaner and rusting away the carburetor. I’m buying a totally new one to put in here. Also draining the oil in the chance some water got inside from the pulse breather.
I know it starts and will run, it needs two new rear tires. Too bad it isn’t 4x4" golf cart lug pattern I could swap those wheels out in a heartbeat.
This must be a 90s model, not as square as the 80s models.
Oh if I had the money for a Vertical Shaft Predator v twin. This would be a hellacious woodgas mower.
Looking at the date code looks like it’s from 1990. Checks out with a quick Google Image search for a 1990 Murray.
Manual transmission or hydrostatic Cody?
S.U.
I am not sure but I think it’s manual, has multiple gear modes. It’s a rear transaxle. Feels like a Peerless detent shift style.
Update on the Murray: changed the rusty carburetor out and replaced the dry rotted valve stems in the rear wheels. Inflated tires to proper 12psi max. She runs like a scalded dog now!
I can see why everyone that builds a gasifier for a lawn mower mounts them up front, with my fat butt in the seat if I pop the clutch in 5th gear it does a wheelie.
Only thing I’m having trouble with now is either the battery or the charging stator. I am pretty sure the battery is just dead, I need to grab my multimeter and see if I’m getting charge voltage. I’m considering adding a rope start cup to the flywheel.
I can comment on that (before I get kidded about that happening to me at Argos). Thankfully there were enough men around that were not laughing to set me back straight again. 
The voltage regular could also be the culprit.
Ten years ago something we was a bunch of guy’s arranging a lawnmower race, nothing fancy, swapping pulleys and stuff, some of us had wheelie-bars on those tractors, using ordinary rubber-belts don’t help, they really grip, so it’s impossible to slip on the clutch 
We used to have lawn tractor racing, but also there was lawn tractor pulling. I have a tractor set up for racing with the pulley swap but the gear in the transmission is toast. It is hung with steel ubolts which froze to the aluminum transmission case. I’m not sure how to get it out.
