I'm planning on making a small backyard rope tow for personal use for next winter. The plan is to use a small gasoline engine to drive a bullwheel at the top of the slope, and have a return bullwheel at the bottom. The slope is probably 100 feet long, on a roughly 30 degree hill. I'm going to have to do some pretty basic gearing to make this effective.
I have a 5.5 HP motor from a Sears push mower on hand that I'm planning on using but it has a vertical drive shaft. From my understanding, a horizontal drive shaft would be significantly easier to use because I'd then be able to have my pulley oriented vertically. However, I'm definitely not extremely knowledgeable in the field so I'm here to ask if I should just try to find a motor with a horizontal shaft, somehow make the one I have on hand convert the motion into a horizontal drive shaft, or maybe there's an effective way to run a bullwheel off of a vertical shaft that I didn't know about.
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