OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Other Walk-Behind Rotary Mowers Unknown Catcher

Someone on my Facebook page Vintage Mowers: Buy, Swap and Sell has just posted this catcher asking for info about it. Sadly no one had any info so i told him i would post it here, i'm hoping someone has some info i can give to him. Sorry if i put this in the wrong spot on the forums.

Hello Kye

I don't recognise this one at all.
There is something wrong with it though ...

The aperture or opening of catchers are designed to match
the chute size on the mower. The opening on this one is
enormous, and does not conform to any design I know.

My best opinion is that this is a backyard job made to
fit crudely to an unknown mower or purpose. It is even unclear
as to how it might have attached.

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Jack

i thought it looked like a home made one, some bloke probably said to his misses, "we don't need to buy that catcher! i can make one!" but as you said theres no way to attach it so perhaps it was a fail

Just a couple of thoughts:

1) are we sure it's a catcher?
1a) there's no exit hole for the air so any grass blown is likely to blow back out again, if it enters at all
2) instead of a catcher could it, for example, actually be a hopper?
2a) or a scoop for a particular purpose?
2b) or even just a cover for something?
3) are we sure it goes 'that way up'?
3a) for example, if the aperture was at the top, it could catch stuff that drops and it wouldn't need an exit hole for air.
4) note some of the horizontal marks on the side. Perhaps it slid into something?
4a) this would also explain the flush aperture faces with no apparent hook or other fixing mechanism, which would also enable it to be slid in/out parallel to the plane of the opening
4b) with the aperture facing down it could have covered something, held in place by gravity

However yes it does seem "home built".

Just some thoughts...

i am trying to get the owner to send me some more pics so we can try to identify it.

Having once upon a time been a farm boy myself, I wonder if this may be either: 1) a feeder for carrying mixed grain and chaff to cows, horses, or pigs. 2) a home-made chook nest box

what ever it is its home made, by handy man