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Yes, it is possible to convert a Smart car into a mower; all it takes is sufficient time and money.
With 35 years of mechanical engineering experience behind me I can guarantee that the time and money to do so will far exceed what it would take to buy any reasonable ready-made alternative.
If you have the skills to do this, it would be a weird/cool/interesting thing to see. However, anyone with the skills to do this would not be asking a bunch of random strangers on the internet whether it could be done.
Post #13 is the answer. I’m sure you can find a turf tires to fit the car. I don’t understand all the negativity that’s been given (not from you) I actually find it interesting. I own a lawn service, so the hot and cold plays a role.
This one of a kind air-conditioned mower cab features a 22,000 BTU air condition unit with a 39,000 BTU condenser. The Air-Conditioner is designed to produce the highest capacity possible from a compact.unit. The resin housing is tough and good looking--perfect for our cab. The condenser is both rugged and versatile, allowing us to mount it without being on the roof top, thereby adding to the sleekness of the machine.
I would use it all year as a farm utility vehicle, so the heat would be great for the winter. It would be use it for fixing fences and other tasks. This would be similar to how some use Gators. I mow about 2 acres up around the house and I also mow some trails around the place. A trailer on the back would be perfect for hauling tree limbs, brush etc. and moving stuff around. A used Smart car appears to be about half the cost of a NEW Gator.
You know, you can buy a used tractor or gator or other side by side for your purposes...For the same price as your used smartcar. I know it seems like your getting a car and not a tractor, but remember that the tractors and smartcars sell for the same amount brand new.
The thing is, you'll tear the snot out of the smartcar in a hurry. The first wayward stone is going to gut it.
What kind of "farm" and "rural area" do you live in that a Smart car could drive around on with it's street only ground clearance? It would be hard to think of a worse utility vehicle than a Smart car.
All whimsy aside, there is a vexingly serious problem here: how to service multiple acres of rough, hilly ground in a wet, agriculturally-oriented climate... at moderate cost... in comfort?
Proper commercial-grade landscaping equipment is shockingly expensive, and for some reason, depreciates very slowly. In my part of the world, it is not at all outlandish to spend more money on such a machine, than on one's house!
If grassland is neglected, it only takes a few seasons before the "lawn" becomes unmowable by traditional mower decks, whether towed behind a vehicle, or suspended beneath it. I don't see how to do it, short of a dozer... but even the dozer might have difficulty negotiating steep hills, and waterlogged terrain. Has anyone priced a dozer lately?
Ideal would be a Jeep-style vehicle, with a power-takeoff at the front differential... with a hydraulic system of supporting a flail-style mower, and an armored cab to protect the operator from debris ejected at high speed. Is anything available along such lines?
All whimsy aside, there is a vexingly serious problem here: how to service multiple acres of rough, hilly ground in a wet, agriculturally-oriented climate... at moderate cost... in comfort?
Proper commercial-grade landscaping equipment is shockingly expensive, and for some reason, depreciates very slowly. In my part of the world, it is not at all outlandish to spend more money on such a machine, than on one's house!
If grassland is neglected, it only takes a few seasons before the "lawn" becomes unmowable by traditional mower decks, whether towed behind a vehicle, or suspended beneath it. I don't see how to do it, short of a dozer... but even the dozer might have difficulty negotiating steep hills, and waterlogged terrain. Has anyone priced a dozer lately?
Ideal would be a Jeep-style vehicle, with a power-takeoff at the front differential... with a hydraulic system of supporting a flail-style mower, and an armored cab to protect the operator from debris ejected at high speed. Is anything available along such lines?
How many years could you pay for someone else to do it for what it would cost to do what the OP is asking? Sit on your porch and watch someone else do it.
Turf tires and a pull-behind independently powered mower would probably work. I think the pull behind mowers are as large as 5 feet wide. If I find a good price on a used Smart car, I believe I will check it out. I would like the 3 cylinder diesel engine if possible. I think the ac and shade would be great, along with the stereo. A Smart car only weighs about 1,500 pounds. A turf golf cart weights about a 1,000 to 1,300 pounds, so I am not concerned about the weight on the grass. I have some tractors, but I was really looking for an economical route with ac and shade.
Let’s move this to the landscape fourm this has nothing to do with automotive none what so ever. This is a joke tread and is beyond stupid.
So someone came up with an idea of using a road legal vehicle that can drive on a freeway, to pull a cutting deck around there property and it has zero to do with automotive?!?! You do realize they could detatch the deck and drive to the store to buy beer to drink while cutting the lawn when it’s 105 and sunny, all while sitting in ac and listening to radio? Old people just hate change
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Can a mower deck be mounted on a Smart Car?
Given enough time and $$$, anything can be mounted on anything.
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