Oakley,MI Old Gas Engine show

johnlobb · Aug 30, 2019

Old Yazoo zero turn. I'm probably the only guy in the USA without my own zero turn!!

Bob Harvey · Aug 30, 2019

Thanx for the pics.

johnlobb · Aug 30, 2019

You're welcome! Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever even looks at them...Sometimes it's obvious they do..

Jeff NWOH · Aug 30, 2019

I have an uncle that still mows with one of that vintage.

SweetFeet · Aug 30, 2019

Anybody know the approximate year that a critter like this would have been manufactured?

lenray · Aug 30, 2019

Love your pics--loved going to the show. I have 2 tractors that I didn't see at the show. one is the MM M5 DIESEL--THERE was a gasser MM M5. I HAVE THE M R S Mississippi Road Service. M R S I-80--4 wheel drive 4 wheel steer-4-71 Detroit.

big daddy t · Aug 30, 2019

Late 70?s Early 80?s my dad bought on brand new in the early 80?s for his landscaping company. That thing was ahead of its time if you turn the wheel all the way it would about throw you off in high gear.

Richard G. · Aug 31, 2019

I don't and never will own a zero turn mower. The way I see a lot of folks driving those things, they will be sorry one of these days when their backs are shot.
Plus, when my son's worker tried one on our yard, it would not hold on to the hills.
He was scared he was going to slide into the pond.
Richard in NW SC

Janicholson · Aug 31, 2019

Needs a head rest on that recliner, and a big gulp cup holder. Or it could be an ejection seat. Jim

K Effective · Aug 31, 2019

I bought a used Yazoo similar to the one pictured in 1992/3- came from a golf course. VERY simply designed and easy to maintain. With many small trees on hillsides at my first house, the turning ability was welcome, as was the 76" cut width. You could pull on a lever connected to a cable to slightly raise the deck, putting more weight on the drive tires when they slipped. That thing made small twigs dissapear and mowed really well for such a large deck.

Mine had a 16HP Wisconsin motor, the oil pump failed and the motor seized before I knew to shut it down. Smack in the middle of cherry harvest season, the local Wisconsin guru was weeks behind, since the majority of cherry shakers used those motors at the time. I pulled it out and took it to the local motor machine shop, they rebuilt it with a new long block and the old oil pump. It seized back up after less than a minute of run time, and they refused to stand behind it. I happened to stumble across a guy selling out his lawn mowing business including a nearly-new Woods Mow-N-Machine, and the Yazoo went off for spare parts to a local guy. I'd have another one without question.

Frank 41 · Aug 31, 2019

If you have a Yazoo, you cut your mowing in half and if you have 2 you don't have to mow at all.

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