dangeroustoys56

I have a 90's murray that i got free many years ago , it was a strange machine ( i never saw one before) - the kind with the back hinged hood , it also had a weird plastic box on the front and a weird bracket on the back.

After asking the PO , he said it used to have a bagger that the owner before him kept - so that explained the back bracket, the plastic box is used to hold water to weigh the tractor down ( no wheel weights) - ive kept these original pieces on it.

I scored a triple bagger assembly from the local 'Restore'- they receive good used/new building materials and other assorted stuff and resell to the public pretty darn cheep. I noticed it out back a few times, I asked the guy saturday what they wanted for it - he said " $15? " I came back with " Could you do $10 ? the housing is a bit cracked and missing the bags " he was like " $10 it is" .

Took it home, it fit my '90 murray bagger bracket ( U shaped hole) - pin fits- even came with the shute - amazingly the part that mounts to the deck bolts in perfect- no modding at all.

I need to do a lil fibreglassing to the bagger housing ( its a thin plastic- probably a universal bagger) , do some tweeking to the shute setup , and locate some sort of bins for it. It most likely came off a craftsman/AYP machine.

All in all, for $10 i think it was a great deal, considering new bagger setups run around $200 and up.

Another plus is my nephew gave me this lil 24 volt electric ATV a while back, i plan eventually on doing some stuff to it ( gas motor, lawntractor wheels), i took the electric motor n batteries off it - he said the batterys werent any good , but i threw em on the charger and they looked pretty good - so i hooked one up to one of my tractors , thing cranked right over and fired right up. Score on two new batterys, theyre even smaller then a motorcycle/atv battery.

Ill grab some pics and post em here tomorrow.

wjjones

It is a good score Murray stuff is getting harder to find..

dangeroustoys56

Theres plenty of murrays around here - theyre not cheep anymore tho. Im still surprised the bagger fit perfectly.

tractor beam

Don't you just love it when you find something such as that? Waiting for them pictures though....

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dangeroustoys56

I had to wait for the dang rain to stop - here they are:
90 murray with the $10 bagger :



I looked at a couple of my other newer murrays and noticed if i swapped the chassis bracket over- the bagger will fit them as well....the deck piece uses a bolt and small clip to hold it on.

Batteries - normal tractor battery on top - the lil ATV battery below:

farmertim

I got a Murray ride on mower for my wife. I thought it was a great swap
cheers

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Thomas

Now thats what I call making money the easy way.