Recent content by Very Fine Person

Thank you for your kind responses. Apologize Hell. We're supposed to be grown men here. If you don't like me, get me thrown out. A quip that I heard: In the South, when they say "Have a Nice Day", it means "Bleep You". In New York, when they say "Bleep you", it means "Have a Nice Day". (I...

I told you that this was going to get weird. What did I say that wasn't true?

I think that you should read the post that you respond to.

It's kinda both. But it's fast, yes it is. And let's talk about those pedals. Instead of having a pedal that makes it go, this thing only has a pedal that makes it stop. If a rider is incapacitated somehow and can't push the pedal, the machine doesn't stop, it goes, out of control, its merry...

Huh. I used to be a person who would want to climb under the machine, but age is really doing me in, which is why I bought a rider in the first place. "Just tip it up on it's butt" people say. Yeah, I lift ninety pounds all the time. Not. Thanks for the input. I don't know how much I can...

Hello. I hope that you are well and enjoying life in general. I've had this Rear Engine Relic for more than a month now, and I finally got around to putting in a battery and oil and climbing aboard. I'd never rode a rider before, and I was horrified at how fast it was. On Speed Number One...

Just now, just for Schlitz and giggles, I got the jack out of the car, jacked up the front of the Snapper, and lowered it onto the bathroom scale, set up with wood pieces to simulate a normal earth and a normal specimen. It read 90 pounds. I don't know what the standard accuracy of a bathroom...

Those of us who grew up with swing sets that weren't anchored to the ground have the experience of the swing set's legs lifting off the ground when the rider's weight was too far from the crossbar. So putting the swing set over the rear wheels might tip it forward when it starts to lift the...

I don't know what you mean. Let's talk about this. I get my shortened swing set with the Harbor Freight Haul-Master chain hoist on it. I want to lift the front of the machine. The hoist is above the front wheels, because that's where it needs to lift the front of the machine. I lift the...

How does this sound: A cheap or even abandoned (Free) swing set out of Craigslist. Shorten the top tube. And instead of swings, a modest chain hoist from Harbor Freight? I'd have to disassemble the swing frame to bring it home, and assemble it to use it, and disassemble it to store it, but...

I feel the same way. I mean, people are way too scairdy these days, but this is a good case for safety.

Oh, man, please get well.

Thank you for all the lovely and helpful responses to my question about the friction wheel on my newly-acquired rear-engine Snapper mower. Now about that wheel. I want to take a look at what I have before hauling off and buying a new wheel. Just pick the machine up and tip it over. Well, the...

I'm told elsewhere that if you have two or more of them stored together, they may reproduce:

I thought I was buying a cool antique but it's only 40 years old.