I assume others on PE have to do yard work around this time of year. My mower wouldn't start, I didn't winterize it like I should have, so tried the below video and after a few tries fired up. I also put in a new spark plug, air cleaner, and fresh gas (with Sea Foam in it).
As long as nobody’s using Round-Up. That stuff is poison for the environment.
Can you use it to glaze a bathtub?
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Not sure. Can't think of a snappy answer...
Did you get it running? I'm clueless mechanically and my lawn mover is not running this season.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Toro lawn cutters with Honda motors are rock solid reliable
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Corded electric for me. Put it away for the season, take it out sharpen the blade. I have had the same one for almost 15 years.
I did go through a couple over the first 15 before finding the one. The gauge of the extension cord is critical for long life.
I really don't want a battery powered unit, much heavier. The cord is a minor hassle.
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One time a few years ago I was having trouble starting my mower. I must have been yanking on the pull cord for 15 minutes. I was pretty wiped out, so I went in the house to grab a cold drink, planning to squirt a little gas in the carburetor when I get back out there. All of a sudden I hear my mower running--WTF?
I ran back outside and find my neighbor from across the street standing next to the mower with a can of starter fluid.
[emoji23]Originally Posted by Dave (in MA)
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I didn't even know I was being observed.
Three pulls and the push mower started right up. The tractor started right up, too.
It's that time of year.
And +100000000 on the Round Up. I had a neighbor with six (!!) kids who used it all the time. He didn't seem to give a shit about the poison. He also never had his well water tested. (I'm using city water, BTW). He had a kitchen renovation that was out of code, his shed was out of code, and the house addition was a mess. Real dumbass, that guy.
EDIT: After they moved away, kid #7 came along. And the new neighbor had tp deal with all the shit he left behind.
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I have four mowers, two I bought and two were given to me. The battery one starts all the time. The electric one was given to my uncle when he opened a bank account maybe 35 years ago. I think my wife may have used it once, they are a pain in the ass. I have a light duty gas one I bought for about $100 which starts every time. I have a heavy duty all wheel drive lawn boy with a Kohler engine which starts with as much effort as flushing a toilet. My partner gave it to me because he like me already had too many mowers but I took it anyway. I leave the same gas in the mowers over the winter and keep the gas can outside year round under the back deck without a speck of problem with bad gas. My neighbor cuts lawns and has more problems with bad gas or dirty carburetors that I'm constantly helping him with mowers,weed eaters and chain saws. I helped my old mechanic around the corner yesterday by cutting his front lawn because they are both in bad health. Three hours and eight bags of grass later I finally finished, what a pain in he ass that was.
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My 20 yr old gas mower finally died at the end of last season, and I'm going battery this year; picked up an Ego mower and string trimmer. Still in the box, but looking forward to breaking out the quiet and fume-free soon.
David
Happy with what I have to be happy with.
We moved into a condo so I don't have to deal with that anymore. I hope to never touch a lawnmower or snowblower again in my life.
Charge those batteries at the end and beginning of every season.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
My friend just south of Minneapolis went out Wednesday and saw her lawn for the first time since last October. (snow / ice) There she "saw" 7 Months of Dog Poo from 4 dogs! She said she filled a 3-gallon bucket 8 times......NOW will need to get the mower out.
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I broke my toe this February so I hired company to do my driveway. Holy shit, how easy as that. I'm going to contract again next year. It costs me $230 to tune up my snowblower each year and the service is $540 - It' a no brainer to continue.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
I happen to enjoy shoveling snow and chopping wood. It's gives me a sense of accomplishment.
A few years ago, I was cutting my grass for the first time of the year with my tractor. After about 20 minutes or so, it started chugging like crazy and then just shut down. After letting it cool off, I checked the oil and realized that I never added any after the previous season's end-of-summer oil change. (I was out of oil at that time.) I let it cool off, filled it up and started cutting again. It lasted one more cut until it finally died.
Fucking idiot.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Way to waste all that high grade fertilizer!My friend just south of Minneapolis went out Wednesday and saw her lawn for the first time since last October. (snow / ice) There she "saw" 7 Months of Dog Poo from 4 dogs! She said she filled a 3-gallon bucket 8 times......NOW will need to get the mower out.
I've wondered how the electric equipment holds up. I assume it will be how most things move with the e-awareness and with e-cars.
Same here. I don't have to get up in the wee hours of the morning. To beat the 115 degree heat.
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Yes, I did. Just did like the guy in the video. Squirt some of that Sea Foam in the carburetor, and put some in the gas tank like he did. It took a little bit of messing with, but I'd squirt more of that SF in the carburetor, eventually it started right up and I started mowing.
What brand is it? I'd probably run over the chord. I did cut into a extension chord once when trimming bushes with a hedge trimmer.
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