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There are two within an hour of me too but mowers sell for next to nothing, someone brought a truck load of used garden tractors to the one last month, mostly all late model stuff that was all turn key and running, only two green one's went over $100, the rest went for pocket change and I'm not...

They tried that here with a few auctions and no one bid, the guys who frequent the auctions refused to bid online. I feel the same way, i'm not bidding on something I'm not standing there to inspect. If they want to do online, put it on eBay. Now most auctions either get canceled because no...

There used to be a dozen or more huge consignment auctions around here every spring and every fall but now there's none. Its a combination of the auctioneers who ran them getting old and dying with no one to replace them, a lack of attendance, and a lack of things bringing enough money to cover...

I've got a neighbor with an acre of grass that always needs mowing, anyone buying anything is welcome to go next door and try it out, the neighbor won't complain. He hates mowing. It don't take a rocket scientist to look at a machine and see its had no real use either. Anything that's 30 years...

I put new blades on it, changed the oil and filter, the belts and tires were like new, installed a new seat and pan, and listed it for $999. It was listed for two months without a single serious message on FB and CL. I got a bunch of $100 and even one $300 offer if I deliver it 400 miles away...

Found this today, not the usual find but it works as found, missing a few wood rollers but sharp as a razor. 17 passes and it mowed my front lawn in about 20 minutes. Strangely it seemed like less work than using the self propelled bagger. Model number 123.8172 It looks like a candidate for a...

I pretty much stopped picking up the rough one's like that, even if it runs like new you won't ever be able to sell it. People around here won't touch anything that don't match the one's on the floor down at Lowes or HD, then they won't pay more than $10 maybe $20 for one because they don't have...

As far as I'm concerned B&S went out of business when they filed Bankruptcy in 2020, and sold out. Any resemblance of the brand we knew before was likely gone long before that. They started to go downhill once the OHV stuff started to appear. Those motors don't hold a candle to anything that...

I had one of those back in the early 80's, got it from a neighbor who passed away at the time. It was red not gold or copper with some sort of bicentennial decals on the deck, so it was likely 1975-76 or so. It had a Tecumseh motor, they called it 6.0hp I believe but it looked like an other...

I've had quite a few of those with bent rear wheel brackets, either the handle/wheel bracket gets bent or the deck itself bends from being tipped on its side or just rouch handled. The tall handle brackets put a lot of leverage on the corners of those things and they get out of shape. If the...

One of my first jobs was at an automotive machine shop. The place was in an area with lots of farms and big lawn properties. We had about 8 guys, each did a separate process on each motor, sort of assembly line style. We would get small engines in all the time for which we used a boring bar on...

I always figured the governor spring they chose had to do with the deck size, it always seemed like the softer springs were on the mowers with larger decks. Possibly to reduce blade tip speed. Most pressure washer and rototiller motors are set to run slower, likely knowing they can be put into...

Same here, all older models, 3.0, 3.5hp B&S, and Sears with the Eager 1 Tecumseh engines. Many of them run as-found, either out of gas or with a broken recoil cord. What I am finding on them, something that I've not seen before, is Magnetron style coils that won't shut off when you ground the...

Being 'dry' is sometimes part of the problem when it comes to corrosion. We used to soak the points with WD40 to displace moisture and stop corrosion. The oily residue protects the points and has no effect on continuity. I do think that newer points are substandard to what came in most motors...

I've had a 2135 for 20 or so years that I bought without a deck off CL for $50, I cleaned out the carb, repaired some linkage to the hydro and replaced the gas strut underneath and its been used to clear snow and drag a lawn roller ever since. I actually found it a deck but I haven't had the...

Saw this on marketplace today: Could be AI.... https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/26840910208904130

That's why so many newer carburetors are never really 100% once they see some age on them. Plastic shrinks, cracks, and warps. Aluminum corrodes from ethanol and dissimilar metal issues yet carbs from the 60's and 70's are still perfectly fine after a minor cleaning. What's worse is many carbs...

Stripped of its motor and deck is a far cry away from one that's running, cuts grass with new filters, oil and blades. If you figure the labor alone at the local repair shop to put that back together, your looking at maybe $300 for a use engine, $200 for a deck, and $450 or more in labor, not...

Pushing down the release bar should depress two hydraulic release pins. They need to be completely compressed to release, sometimes you need to rock the machine back and forth a bit to release the pressure. Be sure to clean that area well before pushing that down, they're been known to stick...

Back in the 90's I had gone through a few ankle surgeries that made it painful to walk one summer, I picked up a used silver Craftsman Rear engine rider that I used for that summer, I kept it for years, but it took twice as long to use because I had to move the car out of the garage to get the...

The problem here is that the road is higher than the lawn, there's a berm at the road's edge on the lawn. So a big deck scalps that bad, then there's three trees, five bushes, and a row of flowering quince full of tire killing thorns along the driveway. To get a mower this size on the lawn, I...

When I loaded it onto my trailer, which works like a mini rollback, I didn't notice anything hanging down but I did see the ends of the right blade all chewed up. Its the third one of these I've found for free so far. Other then the wheel bushings and the blades, it wasn't in bad shape. Oddly...

It was on a GT 4000, a front engine garden tractor. The blades on the GT are no different than those on a push mower, just shorter. They're super thin. I stuck a new set on the thing, I think the total with shipping for two sets was under $25. The thing that got me was that they cut the end...

I went the other day to claim another free GT, this one a 4000 model with a 46" deck from 1998 Overall the machine is pretty clean, its got good rubber, no dryrot, and it looks very presentable overall. The deck is solid but the guy who had it said the thing shakes really bad and eats up right...

I need to find the pieces that go under the carb, the isolation block or spacer, and the aluminum adapter or intake manifold, and the coil bolts. I took a ride out to one junk yard and they had five of these motors but all were stripped down to bare blocks. It looks like a pretty good set up to...

Last week I trash picked a 2155, the guy who owned it for what ever reason tore the entire machine apart, everything except the transaxle was in boxes, milk crates, bags, and buckets. The hour meter reads super low, only a few hundred hours showing, if the hour meter was working. Its got the...

Around here, every day before trash collection we get a string of rusted out, banged up old trucks and guys who drive around taking anything they can sell for scrap. They don't usually miss much but lately they've been absent, ether the city has cracked down on people picking up stuff off the...

I've seen those Vanguard motors go 2,500+ hours. A buddy has one on a jump start rig with over 4k on it that still runs fine.

I got the one out already with heat and by cutting a slot in the top of the broken stub. The other one is buggered up pretty good, he already tried to drill it and missed. the plan is to just drill the mess out, tap it to a 1/4" or 5/16", locktite in an insert and re-drill and tap it for a new...

I just found the Cub Cadet, its mostly a pile of parts and a rolling chassis. Someone had an add on CL for it for free the other night. I drove right over with my truck and trailer and grabbed it. The Its all there but the headlight lens and bulbs. The motor is apart, he gave up after breaking...

I got the seat and bracket today. Judging by the way it sits with the seat all the way back they didn't build these for guys 6ft 3in tall and 300lbs? With the OEM seat, minus the pad even, I can't get a leg between the steering wheel and the front edge of the seat. With a seat off an LT2000, its...

The old guy that had it parked it in the garage and forgot about it I suppose, the tires were all up when I found it, they needed a bit of air but none were flat. all four tires still have their little nipples on the tread surface and the garage there is open to a game room, so its heated in the...

I appreciate the offer but I'm a good 12 to 14 hrs from say Smyrna or Murfreesboro area. (Used to make that drive years ago). I have the seat pan parts coming, putting a seat on it won't break a $20 bill. I had a seat, got a stack of misc seats I've saved, including two that say Craftsman on...

I almost bought that one but I called the small engine shop where I used to live n PA, they had a complete new assembly for less, it comes with the pan, hinge, switch, wire pigtail, and hardware. They're going to drop it off when they get over this way on Mon. Under $20 problem solved. I can...

The scrappers around here have been oddly absent lately, but the city has cracked down on trash picking. They hired an outside company to collect recyclables and the city is supposed to be the one to take 'large items'. If I hadn't gone down there and grabbed it, chances are it would have been...

I've got an older Simplicity 7116H that I've had for years, I only use it to clear the driveway when it snows or to move my boat trailer in and out of the back yard. The Craftsman won't replace that, and I don't need a mower. The GT 3000 looks a lot heavier built than say a typical Craftsman...

A neighbor who's in his late 90's, put this out to the curb, or rather his son did. He's had a lawn service mowing his lawn for the last 25 or so years, so its been sitting in the garage since it was new. The rubber nipples are still on the tires. The blade edges still have paint on them. The...