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An edge trimmer mounted as auxiliary equipment on a rotary lawn mower. A flexible drive shaft has a first end connected to the top end of the lawn mower engine crankshaft. The opposite end of the flexible shaft is connected to a rotatable input driver of a trimmer. A rotatable cutting head on the tr

An edge trimmer mounted as auxiliary equipment on a rotary lawn mower. A flexible drive shaft has a first end connected to the top end of the lawn mower engine crankshaft. The opposite end of the flexible shaft is connected to a rotatable input driver of a trimmer. A rotatable cutting head on the trimmer is connectable to the flexible drive shaft by the rotatable input driver. The trimmer is mounted on the lawn mower and may be removed therefrom while connected to the engine crankshaft to facilitate trimming of grass at a location away from the lawn mower. A compressor and reservoir tank is mounted to the lawn mower and may be powered by the flexible drive shaft for spraying insecticide or other liquid.

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A rotary lawn mower with auxiliary unit comprising: a lawn mower main frame with wheels to move across a lawn; an engine mounted on said frame having a rotatable drive means with a top end extending upwardly from said engine and a bottom end extending downwardly beneath said engine; a cutting head m

A rotary lawn mower with auxiliary unit comprising: a lawn mower main frame with wheels to move across a lawn; an engine mounted on said frame having a rotatable drive means with a top end extending upwardly from said engine and a bottom end extending downwardly beneath said engine; a cutting head mounted to said bottom end and being rotatable therewith about an axis of rotation perpendicular to a cutting plane with said cutting head including cutting elements extending outwardly therefrom in said plane for cutting vegetation beneath said main frame; an auxiliary frame sized to be moved away from said main frame with said auxiliary frame having an output means of power and a rotatable input driver; a flexible shaft with one end connected to said top end and an opposite end connected to said driver, said shaft being rotatable by said drive means of said engine to rotate said driver; a rigid extension mounted to said opposite end of said flexible shaft and mountingly received by said driver; clutch means on said auxiliary frame operable to connect and disconnect said output means of power to said flexible shaft; a flexible nonrotatable housing in which said flexible shaft rotates and extends from said one end to said opposite end of said flexible shaft and wherein said rotatable drive means is a crankshaft of said engine; an adaptor removably connecting said one end of said flexible shaft to said rotatable drive means, said adaptor including a main body with an internally threaded end portion removably threaded onto said top end of said rotatable drive means and an opposite end releaseably connected to said one end of said flexible shaft.