“The 4-wheeler tires have plenty of tread to pull the tracks,” he notes.Ĭontact: FARM SHOW Followup, James Bassett, 9632 Goody Hill, Berlin, Md. If I need to haul more than one deer I pull the second one on a rope behind me.”īassett also replaced the mower’s original rear tires with lugged ATV tires.
I use the mower’s original controls to steer and to go forward and backward. “The rear tires drive the machine without any slippage inside the tracks, and the side pieces keep water from splashing on me as I drive. Now I want to shoot deer on the marsh just for a chance to use it,” says Bassett.
“I built the machine 5 years ago and it has really changed the way I hunt. The gas tanks were in the way of the tracks so he added 2 wooden side panels to the machine and bolted the gas tanks onto them.
He mounted 2 boat trailer axles on front. square tubing to lengthen the mower frame by 18 in. He removed the deck, then cut off the front part of the mower frame and used 2-in. The Yazoo mower was equipped with a 25 hp. “I already had the zero-turn mower, and a friend gave me some old hard plastic tracks off an old Argo off-road vehicle.” My marsh buggy works excellent both on and off the marsh,” says Bassett. We do a lot of deer hunting there, and it’s always a battle getting dead deer off the marsh. “I live on a big farm that borders a bay with lots of marshland.
A wooden compartment just in front of the driver is used for storage and to haul dead deer. The mower’s original rear wheels drive the machine, and the tracks ride around them and 2 more sets of axles in front. The tracks ride around 3 sets of wheels and axles. James Bassett, Berlin, Md., turned an early 1990’s Yazoo zero-turn riding mower into a camouflaged marsh buggy that rides on tracks, and can motor through the marsh land on his property.
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