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petrol lawn mower recommendations?
On Thu, 31 May 2018 18:23:49 +0100, Martin Brown wrote:
Mine is a Mountfield 18" petrol with 135cc Honda engine. Briggs & Stratten on my 18" self propelled Mountfield. 20 odd years old, Steel deck that is corroding but no holes or seriously thin bits yet. Replaced the propulsion drive cover, which had cracked and had holes punched in it from stones (moles and snow blower deposits). Which makes me wonder if a plastic deck would last long, steel just shrugs off a stone... Have a new clutch cable for when the old one that I bodged to make work last year finally breaks. It had almost snapped and the free ends of wire where jaming in the cover. trimed them back wrapped in a thin layer of self amalgamting tape to control them, well greased, works a charm on the remaining 3 strands. B-) It has only stalled on me when I tried to cut a flagstone or edging with it and even then it sometimes cut a piece off. Ah reminds me caught something imoveable, stalled and bent the crank shaft at the point it exited the bottom of the engine. New crankshaft required, the vibration from the imbalance was intolerable. The 18" is my choice for a moderately large set of lawns with one of them on a fairly aggressive slope where the self propelled feature is helpful. On the flat I don't find it all that important. YMMV Self propelled is essential here, flat doesn't exist and we cut at the highest setting so there is always a fair bit of grass to push through. It only has one speed - sort of slow walking. Mine had a vari-speed but as I only ever use it flat out when the throttle cable end broke off I just removed it. I guess I ought to change the oil some time, I've done it once in 20 years... -- Cheers Dave. |
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