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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: Pundyburn Lynn on April 26, 2015, 03:20:58 pm

Title: Towing with a 12.5hp lawnmower
Post by: Pundyburn Lynn on April 26, 2015, 03:20:58 pm

hello folks,


Quick question - a friend of a friend has offered me a 12.5 hp lawn tractor.  It's really a sit on mower with the cutting deck removed.  I like to think creatively, and because it has a tow-bar I'm wondering if it'll be any use towing a trailer? What about a  trailer of pigs? (6 at most) Our land is only 5 acres, so not far to go...


Thanks,
Lynn

Title: Re: Towing with a 12.5hp lawnmower
Post by: doganjo on April 26, 2015, 03:36:57 pm

I don't have a clue really, but I have had a few ride on mowers so I can use logic. 

We had one that was designed to pull a roller filled with water, a three gang mower, or a barrow.  None of them was heavy, but I would be inclined to find out the weight of your mower and only pull half of that,  Does your friend use it for towing at the moment?  I'd worry it might tip up with too much weight behind it.

Title: Re: Towing with a 12.5hp lawnmower
Post by: pgkevet on April 26, 2015, 05:56:52 pm

The manual for the machine should have towing limits... but they'll apply to dry flat ground specially with grass tyres and if it's two-wheel drive

Title: Re: Towing with a 12.5hp lawnmower
Post by: stufe35 on April 26, 2015, 06:14:07 pm

I have a 12.5 hp mower..you've no chance of towing a trailer of 6 pigs.

It's a good little machine, I have a four wheel cart for it which it handles well enough, it will for example pull a couple of people in the cart,  power isn't really the issue, it's traction. And remember they are belt driven so not made to handle massive weights.

Title: Re: Towing with a 12.5hp lawnmower
Post by: Pundyburn Lynn on April 26, 2015, 06:43:17 pm

Thanks guys, decision made.  You lot are worth your weight in gold!


Lynn x