Show us your......lawnmower !
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Couldn't see a thread for this and, well I like lawnmowers !
My first lawnmower;
A little Italian branded self propelled rotary with a honda engine. Bought it a couple of years ago and has been good, currently resides at my dads house as I didn't have any grass until this year.
As my father doesn't have his own mower and uses the yellow devil I decided a cheap mower from ebay was required and got this for the princely sum of £27 !
TBC forgot to take photos of the second mower
My first lawnmower;
A little Italian branded self propelled rotary with a honda engine. Bought it a couple of years ago and has been good, currently resides at my dads house as I didn't have any grass until this year.
As my father doesn't have his own mower and uses the yellow devil I decided a cheap mower from ebay was required and got this for the princely sum of £27 !
TBC forgot to take photos of the second mower
I started buying the Honda HT3813 a few years back to restore and sell on, it's a liquid cooled two cylinder 13hp engine.Very handy power unit for jobs around the land, and cheap to buy.
I converted one to a two seater, I have four at the moment but will be buying and selling again as it gets warm.
I converted one to a two seater, I have four at the moment but will be buying and selling again as it gets warm.
Can't take a pic at the minute but it's an Electrolux (since when did they make lawnmowers?), self-propelled walk behind, and an electric start. Probably about 15 years old I am guessing.
The battery was a little 6v Yuasa burglar alarm type and is long dead - now I jump-start it off a 24v truck battery and it spins over like it's about to take off, then fires up on any old fuel.
Nicely sun-bleached yellow plastic deck, has never been serviced nor the blade sharpened, has enough adjustment that I think I could fit it with a steering wheel and off-road on it!
The battery was a little 6v Yuasa burglar alarm type and is long dead - now I jump-start it off a 24v truck battery and it spins over like it's about to take off, then fires up on any old fuel.
Nicely sun-bleached yellow plastic deck, has never been serviced nor the blade sharpened, has enough adjustment that I think I could fit it with a steering wheel and off-road on it!
We bought our house last November, so going from perhaps 0.25 acre to 2.75, we bought the little lawn tractor:
bit of a project really. At some point it'll get stripped down and painted up. No plastic fantastic here - all steel.
This was the mower at the previous place. Can't recommend these enough. Cast ally deck, one lever height adjustment. Think they must have gone under as the spec for the price was great!
And then this, that sort of came with the house - we bought it from the house sellers:
It's a Webb, with a really decent Briggs motor.
I got this one out today, it's great fun, and cuts really nicely.
bit of a project really. At some point it'll get stripped down and painted up. No plastic fantastic here - all steel.
This was the mower at the previous place. Can't recommend these enough. Cast ally deck, one lever height adjustment. Think they must have gone under as the spec for the price was great!
And then this, that sort of came with the house - we bought it from the house sellers:
It's a Webb, with a really decent Briggs motor.
I got this one out today, it's great fun, and cuts really nicely.
Plastic deck McCulloch job, Brigg'n'Strat engine, cost ninety quid from Argos about 7 years ago. Cheap, cheerful and thus far has required nothing more than a new pull cord last year and the blade sharpening on the bench grinder 3 or 4 times.
Might even go crazy and service the engine one day!
Looks like this except for general grubbiness:
Might even go crazy and service the engine one day!
Looks like this except for general grubbiness:
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