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Old 09-07-2003, 12:56 PM
Bushy
 
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G'day all, trying to find a mower for my girlfriend who loves to mow the
lawn but has to get someone to pull start the mower for her.

I've been to a couple of hardware or bunnings stores (notice the two terms
are different?) and they tell me there are electric start petrol mowers but
don't stock them. Nor do the old Victa windup start mowers appear to be
available, but my local mower/chainsaw place will keep an eye out for one
for me.

Does anyone know a good model that doesn't cost the earth. It would be nice
to be four stroke and a reasonable bit of grunt to hack through the back
yard which is covered in the dropped limbs of the poinciana tree and a bit
of green panic up the back and the rest if often left to grow a bit.

Peter


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Old 09-07-2003, 09:46 PM
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g'day peter,

mowers are only easy to start to a point, after that it depends on how
well maintained they are as to how easy they start. if you deal only
with specialist mower/garden equipment specialist who provide on site
sales and service you are more likely to end up with the right
equipment for the right job.

either way you will need to be clearing the area of those fallen
branches etc.,. as no mower is made to act like a bulldozer. the old
victa impulse starter would be pretty scarce nowadays and have my
doubts as to whether a victa that old would do much for you even if
you rebuilt it.

sounds like you should be looking at a b&s 5 or so hp commercial
model, they are very reliable machines, not sure if you can get an
electric start model? they used to have them, they were never very
popular as the battery and starter mechanism added weigh to the
overall package.

a starting procedure that works well with all 4 stroke engines is as
follows:

slowly rotate engine using the starter until the engine just passes
the compression stage (that is when the motor gets the hardest to turn
past). once at this stage let the starter cord return to its prestart
position. then pulling on the starter handle engage the starter then
pull the cord to rotate the motor and cause it to start.

the problem most people have with using pull cord starters is when
they meet that compression part the way through the starting
procedure, using this method helps avoid this.

good luck in your quest

len

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Old 10-07-2003, 07:44 AM
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"Bushy" wrote in message
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G'day all, trying to find a mower for my girlfriend who loves to mow the
lawn but has to get someone to pull start the mower for her.


I have a Honda 4 stroke which by reputation (and my observation) starts 1st
or 2nd time. They are in the medium price range and are heavy duty IMHO.

I saw an ad for "Jims Mowing" showing they use Honda too.

http://world.honda.com/news/2000/c000328.html

gtoomey


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Old 10-07-2003, 08:32 AM
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Gregory Toomey wrote:

"Bushy" wrote in message
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G'day all, trying to find a mower for my girlfriend who loves to mow the
lawn but has to get someone to pull start the mower for her.


I have a Honda 4 stroke which by reputation (and my observation) starts 1st
or 2nd time. They are in the medium price range and are heavy duty IMHO.

I saw an ad for "Jims Mowing" showing they use Honda too.

http://world.honda.com/news/2000/c000328.html

gtoomey


I have to second Gregory's vote for Honda's. Mine starts
with very little effort. Both my wife and my mother-in-law
can start it without a problem.
Now if I can only get them to push it. ;-)
Andrew
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Old 11-07-2003, 04:56 PM
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"Bushy" wrote in message
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G'day all, trying to find a mower for my girlfriend who loves to mow the
lawn but has to get someone to pull start the mower for her.

I've been to a couple of hardware or bunnings stores (notice the two terms
are different?) and they tell me there are electric start petrol mowers

but
don't stock them. Nor do the old Victa windup start mowers appear to be
available, but my local mower/chainsaw place will keep an eye out for one
for me.

Does anyone know a good model that doesn't cost the earth. It would be

nice
to be four stroke and a reasonable bit of grunt to hack through the back
yard which is covered in the dropped limbs of the poinciana tree and a bit
of green panic up the back and the rest if often left to grow a bit.

Peter


Forget the mower...how much for your girlfriend

I have a Victa 4 stroke, and it's started first pull for over 2 years now.
But then I always prime it, set the throttle to 3/4 and pull the cord to the
compression point ..then relax the cord..one pull of the cord then works
everytime.





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Old 12-07-2003, 06:32 AM
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Honda .....Honda......Honda. I bought one 2 years ago and I will swear that
it has never taken any more than two pulls to get it to go.
Bloody great motor also!
Robby
"Bushy" wrote in message
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G'day all, trying to find a mower for my girlfriend who loves to mow the
lawn but has to get someone to pull start the mower for her.

I've been to a couple of hardware or bunnings stores (notice the two terms
are different?) and they tell me there are electric start petrol mowers

but
don't stock them. Nor do the old Victa windup start mowers appear to be
available, but my local mower/chainsaw place will keep an eye out for one
for me.

Does anyone know a good model that doesn't cost the earth. It would be

nice
to be four stroke and a reasonable bit of grunt to hack through the back
yard which is covered in the dropped limbs of the poinciana tree and a bit
of green panic up the back and the rest if often left to grow a bit.

Peter




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Old 18-07-2003, 01:02 AM
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"Michelle" wrote in message
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"Bushy" wrote in message

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G'day all, trying to find a mower for my girlfriend who loves to mow the
lawn but has to get someone to pull start the mower for her.

I've been to a couple of hardware or bunnings stores (notice the two

terms
are different?) and they tell me there are electric start petrol mowers

but
don't stock them. Nor do the old Victa windup start mowers appear to be
available, but my local mower/chainsaw place will keep an eye out for

one
for me.

Does anyone know a good model that doesn't cost the earth. It would be

nice
to be four stroke and a reasonable bit of grunt to hack through the back
yard which is covered in the dropped limbs of the poinciana tree and a

bit
of green panic up the back and the rest if often left to grow a bit.

Peter



Hi all

Buy a Honda! I share the mower with my brother-in-law, so can't claim
fame to actually owning it. BUT.... I can start it every time and
it's even easy to push around :-)))

Michelle


Right On!!! Honda it is, great mower.
Robby


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