Three-Wheel-Drive! Broyhill M-4100 3×3

Another in the last category you ever thought would be on Barn Finds: a sports turf and infield groomer, this unusual and very cool 19XX Broyhill M-4100 3×3 (!) can be found listed here on Facebook Marketplace in Abbeville, Georgia. If it were closer, it would be part of the “Scotty G’s Garage” series. The seller is asking $975. Here is the original listing, and thanks to PRA4SNW for the tip!

I don’t know in what world I would ever need a three-wheel-drive sports turf grooming vehicle, but I think I could justify this one with the amount of yard work my wife (a master gardener) does. Or that would be my argument anyway. Hauling mulch and dirt/soil alone would be a no-brainer with this 3×3. Plus, then I would have a 2×2 Rokon and a 3×3 Broyhill M-4100. From what I can find, the company made this model from the 1990s to the 2000s, and they still make a similar but much nicer model. Here’s a brochure showing the new one. I could spend all day looking at that brochure for some odd reason.

When I think of Broyhill, I think of furniture, not that I have owned any Broyhill furniture either, but I’ve never even heard of this Dakota City, Nebraska company when it comes to heavy-duty maintenance vehicles and equipment. Broyhill still makes a vehicle like this unusual 3×3, but they also make baseball infield grooming equipment, such as the Ball Field Finisher equipment. Here’s another brochure showing their equipment line. This one is a Highlander Sport, and I can’t find much info on this exact model beyond a couple of old auction listings. I wish the seller had included a photo of a data plate.

We just saw the almost as unusual two-wheel drive Toro Sand Pro three-wheeler the other day, and this 780-pound Broyhill groomer is so much cooler, in my opinion. The Toro would have used an implement on the rear, as the current Broyhill company makes for grooming sports infields and other sporting uses. But this Broyhill has that fiberglass dump bed on the back, making it a great gardening machine, not to mention the single front wheel is also powered. That would be my argument for our hilly yard with all kinds of rain gardens and other things going on, if it weren’t a $1,000 shipping ride away from home.

This example has a 479-cc, 16-horsepower OHV four-stroke Vanguard (Briggs & Stratton) V-twin engine and hydostatic drive. It’s good for between 10 and 12 mph, fast enough for grooming and yard work. The seller posted a video of it in action. They also say they had it running and driving, but it needs a new carb, so I don’t know if that’s an old video or what the story is. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be hard to get it running like new, and I’d love to have this one. Have any of you heard of Broyhill turf equipment?