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Lawnmower easy start?
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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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 On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:47:38 +1000, "Bushy" wrote: snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://hub.dataline.net.au/~gardnlen/ |
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"Bushy" wrote in message
... 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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Gregory Toomey wrote:
"Bushy" wrote in message ... 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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"Bushy" wrote in message ... 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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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 ... 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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"Michelle" wrote in message om... "Bushy" wrote in message ... 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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