From July 08, 2009
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The day after we arrived home from Tennessee - two weeks ago last Tuesday - I took our lawnmower to the shop for repair. It's a Toro Personal Pace mower with a heavy, 6-1/2 horsepwer Briggs & Stratton and a busted transmission, and with the transmission not working it's like trying to push a wheel-less '71 Beetle.
So, off to the shop it went, and I sat back to play stare-down with my lawn. I would have won.
Because it's nearly August and my lawn's time to be dormant, it didn't look that bad. The shop finished fixing the mower today, and we went to pick it up. New wheels, a tighter starter cord, a new blade, and a fixed transmission. I got it into the driveway the moment we got home, primed the engine, pulled the starter cord...
...and the mower left without me. It didn't get far - only about four feet before the engine, deprived of someone holding the safety bar, quit - but it got there with amazing speed.
The Toro Personal Pace mower uses a slack belt drive which tightens the belt as you push - the harder you push, the faster it goes. Apparently the repairman put a new belt in tight, and the mower couldn't stop going.
So, in the staring contest between me and my lawn, I blinked, and borrowed my father-in-law's mower. It's a push-type, and runs kinda slow - the engine is very relaxed in its grass cutting efforts and as a result my lawn looks as though I mowed it with a scythe. The finer grasses simply ducked and the tougher grasses bent, but taken on average the lawn is shorter and that was the goal.
I'm looking forward to getting my mower back in proper working order.
The day after we arrived home from Tennessee - two weeks ago last Tuesday - I took our lawnmower to the shop for repair. It's a Toro Personal Pace mower with a heavy, 6-1/2 horsepwer Briggs & Stratton and a busted transmission, and with the transmission not working it's like trying to push a wheel-less '71 Beetle.
So, off to the shop it went, and I sat back to play stare-down with my lawn. I would have won.
Because it's nearly August and my lawn's time to be dormant, it didn't look that bad. The shop finished fixing the mower today, and we went to pick it up. New wheels, a tighter starter cord, a new blade, and a fixed transmission. I got it into the driveway the moment we got home, primed the engine, pulled the starter cord...
...and the mower left without me. It didn't get far - only about four feet before the engine, deprived of someone holding the safety bar, quit - but it got there with amazing speed.
The Toro Personal Pace mower uses a slack belt drive which tightens the belt as you push - the harder you push, the faster it goes. Apparently the repairman put a new belt in tight, and the mower couldn't stop going.
So, in the staring contest between me and my lawn, I blinked, and borrowed my father-in-law's mower. It's a push-type, and runs kinda slow - the engine is very relaxed in its grass cutting efforts and as a result my lawn looks as though I mowed it with a scythe. The finer grasses simply ducked and the tougher grasses bent, but taken on average the lawn is shorter and that was the goal.
I'm looking forward to getting my mower back in proper working order.