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Buy a cheap mower and you will have to replace it more often. Buy a good brand mower and pay a little more for it with good maintenance it will last for years. My Ferris is going on 20+ years old and still runs and mowes as good as the day I bought it.

It just seems for some reason this summer I have had more then normal snakes around my house and yard. I just don't care for them hanging around my house and my feeling is that the only good snake is a dead one.. I have been bagging them up live and giving them a throw into a drainage ditch...

Bought a new set of Harbor Freight 1/4 in hex drive socket kit. When I got it home I see some odd sizes I have never used or seen before. 9/32, 13/32, and 15/32. Has anybody ever seen a use for these odd sizes? I do see then for sale on E-Bay so somebody must use them. I do have some...

Looking for a used mower deck for a 53AA5B6L710 Cub Cadet, Part number 01008481 or 02000619. The old one is rusted too bad for repairs and customer don't want the cost of a new deck.

I have a few blue bird houses around my property in which ever year blue birds build nest in. For some reason this year one of the male birds keep attacking my front house windows. I just can't discourage him from doing so no matter what I do. I think what he sees is a reflection of another...

One of the earlier post got me thinking. Just what dose a lawn mower do to our environment. I go through a case of grease in a season. Just where dose all this grease go to. I would think it would just flake out onto our lawns and end up in our drinking water supply. The same with our oil...

Why am I getting 502 Bad Gateway on this forum? Am I the only person getting this?

I now have a Cub Cadet 2206 with a mower attachment that I really don't have a use for. So I offered it to my grand daughter and her husband. They can also use a snowblower on this tractor. Has anybody ever install a snowblower on this model tractor and if so how dose it work?

I have mower decks that come into my shop with either broken or rusted off brackets. I have a stick welder but find its just too hot to weld the thin metal that the decks are made of. I find that my best luck is to braze them back on with a gas torch. I have been looking at the electric...

1977 International model Cadet 80 I had one brought into my shop for loose mower deck pulleys. I took one of the mower deck spindles out and took it apart. It has a system with a gear that seems to tighten the pulley as it goes under power. I have never seen anything like this and...

Don't know that this THING is trying to prove. But if IT can't speak in English I say give IT the boot. I can see no use for it on this forum`:thumbdown:

It just seems that Mister Vippeter81 and minh robin lava just got all mixed up on what forum they were on. They just must of had too much to drink last night:thumbdown:

What is wrong with these people?

What is happing here with Cuc437432, :thumbdown:

Free Multimeter http://images.harborfreight.com/cpi/emails/2816/b_final/images/free_3.jpg I see that Harbor Freight is giving free multimeters. Its sure something you need when you are doing any electrical diagnosing.

Was going to order new mower deck blades for the Cub. Cub Cadet list three different style blades for this mower. Low Lift, High Lift, and hard coated. Dose anybody know that the different is in these mower blades and what they do? All I was hoping for was just a set of standard mower blades.

In the job of rebuilding the mower deck on my Cub's mower deck. I have found that all the idler pulley bearings are noisy and feel gritty. It just looks like they had used poor quality 6203 bearing in these pulleys. The pulleys them self's still look in good shape but are spot welded...

Not new to the forum but new to owning a 2206 Cub. One of my customers gave up hope on repairs and just wanted a new mower so he gave me his old 2206 Cub Cadet with a Kohler CH20 engine. I got it home and found bent push rods. I haven't taken it apart other then removing the valve covers, I...

Have had a off road bike in my shop the last few days. The type of job the customer just knows everything. He has been working on this bike for weeks and he couldn't get it to fire once. This bike has a lot of electronics on it. He had the carburetor all apart and when putting it back...

After 50 years of hard use my 7 in. Skill angle grinder fan broke and destroyed the armature. So now is the time for a new one. I am seeing a lot of different price ranges for them from Harbor Freight to big money commensal models. I am thinking about getting a DE Walt in the 150 dollar...

I went on the nikas post . When I opened it looked like a good place to put a virus on my computer

This last fall we lost another dealer in our town. He started with Wheel Horse and then went to Toro/Wheel Horse. The only good I can see from it I might gain some new repair customers. Time will tell. I know am going to miss them because they were a close source of parts and information...

I have a nice patch of Staghorn Sumac at my home which just seems to grow wild. I was thinking that I wanted to start a patch of it at my camp. What would be the best way to do this. Plant some of the small plants or some of the seed pods ? It grows and spreads fast and was hoping it...

This pass Saturday and Sunday ever time I tried to get on this mower forum all I could get was 502 Bad gateway. I even try it on two different computers and got the same thing. Now today its OK. Has anybody else ever had this problem? and if so what happen?

Had just got done rebuilding a HS50 Tecumseh on a wood splitter. It started right up and ran perfect. The only thing was it would only run for about 5 min's and the engine would quit running. One pull with the rope and it would be running again with the same problem over again. I was...

Don't drive the car very often but took the car out to do some shopping. Didn't go 2 miles and the check engine light came on and I just made it home a because the car ran so bad. I checked it out with the scanner and the engine knock sensor was bad. Now I know why I hate working on cars...

I have a old log splitter with a HS50 Tecumseh engine in it. The engine has seen it better days, using oil and puffs out of the breather vent bad. I was thinking it was OH time till I started pricing parts. Parts and my labor it will be cheaper to replace the engine with a Chinese Predator...

Here in upper NY the weather sure has been unreal. Today its calling for temperatures in the low 70's. We had no plowable snow so far. I just know it wouldn't last but sure hoping. I may even have a nice December motorcycle ride today seeing they haven't needed to salt the roads yet.

They made the model 13AM693G026 MTD two years, 2000 and 2001. I found out the hard way that the drive belt is one in. shorter for the 2000 then the 2001. Part number 248076 for the 2000 and part number 248077 for the 2001. Thank-you for the lesson MTD seeing I got the wrong belt and even...

I was thinking about investing in a Ultrasonic Carburetor Cleaner. The problem I am seeing is the ones I was looking at run around 3 hundred dollars + the cleaning solution. For just my small shop and my age I just don't see recouping my money for that big of a investment. Do they make...

I was digging around in my old work tool box of when I retired in 2004. I ran across a old work flashlight which I thought was junk. To my surprise it still worked after sitting for over 11 years with the same old D cell battery's in it. So I tested the battery's and they still had over 1.3...

I went to use my old worn out cord grass trimmer today. It is ready for the trash pile. I am in the market for a new battery power grass trimmer. I want something good quality and will last me a few years. I didn't really don't want a gas power trimmer because they are too heavy, noisy, and a...

I have through the years bought battery powered tools like drill motors etc. When the battery's go bad I just don't see much different in cost between buying new battery's and buying a another new battery powered tool with the new batteries. As a rule you get two new battery's with that...

I have been looking at some You tube repairs. I have come to the conclusion you can't always believe what is being said as being what the person is doing just doesn't know what they talking about or know what they are doing. I also found they will talk around a repair without doing anything...

Been heating my house with a fireplace wood burning insert for the last 15 years. I bought the unit used so really don't know how old it is. So I have had three contractors look at my unit and all three told me it was junk and I needed to replace it. I have to decide now with a new heater...

I seen on earlier post 10 years for a mower life? First of all I buy used if I can. I bought my push mowers in the 70's, my JD 1980, my Wheel Horse 1991, and my Ferris 1999 new and only one I ever bough new. The push mowers only get used for trim work so they don't get many hours per year...

Just had a job come into my shop which was a tiller with a Honda engine. Ever time it would go under a load it would start running bad. I knew it needed carburetor work. When I went on line to look for parts I found a new carburetor only cost 18 dollars. I couldn't rebuild the old one for...

One of my customers is thinking about buying a new Craftsman mower. He was looking to buy one of the lower priced mowers. The mower he was looking at has a Craftsman 4 cycle 420cc engine in it. The only information on that engine I could find is it is made by MTD. Has anybody have any...

My small repair shop I have been using a bernzomatic torch using mapp gas. I have been getting by with it, but there are times I just can't get enough heat from it. Also I would like to do some small brazing jobs at times. I know bernzomatic makes a set like that but uses mapp gas instead of...

Its about time that a manufacture came out with this idea. I have seen it many times a person buys a mower and never changes the oil. I can see this coming more all the time with the newer synthetic oils coming out. They say the engine runs cooler so the oil doesn't break down, time will...

Here we are coming into the last of February. We just had another snow storm last night and its still going strong this morning. This is my first year of cleaning out my driveway with my ATV and a plow. I was working at it this morning and its getting to the point the piles of snow are...

Our TV was off in the color so I called the company we bought it from. The service person came to our house took the hand control which it took him less then 5 min. and readjusted it. He got 183 dollars for this little job. I'm not complaining because he knew what he was doing and I didn't.

I have a good set of Hanson SAE taps and dies and have used them for years. So when I needed a set of metrics I bought a cheap set from HF. I have been getting by with them but you get what you pay for. (Chinese Junk) I have been looking on E-Bay but find many different brands and prices. I...

One of my clients that I deliver home meals to that lives in a wheel chair has a Wheel Horse that all wiring has been cut off all the safety switches. He hates using it that way because he said if he ever fell off it, it would keep going and who knows what would happen. :confused2: I told him...

Been thinking about getting a hydraulic press for my shop. I see cheap presses that run anywhere from 160 to 200 dollars. They also have different tonnage, from 5 to 20 ton. I would like to use it for bearings and every once in a wile to straighten something. Has anyone have one of...

When ever I come across the brand Electrolux I think Electrolux vacuum cleaners . I had a Sears mower come into my shop this week and when I looked up parts for it the name Electrolux came up. Did Electrolux make lawn mowers or just put there name on them?

I went to a farm show called Empire Farm Days. Kohler had a booth set up. So I asked the person at the Kohler booth about the cracked engine blocks they were having in the Courage engines. He told me that Kohler knew about the problem and was covering the cost of parts if the work was done...

I have a B&S gas tank that has sat a long time and now its rusty inside. The rust turn to a fine power when I stall gas and run the mower its plugs the carburetor. Has anybody have any ideas how to stop this other then buying a new tank? I now have the tank setting full of carburetor...

My neighbor needed to till up his garden. So me being a good neighbor let him take my rototiller. I needed to do my own garden so I went to his house to bring it back home again. He told me it ran out of gas so he added gas but now it won't start anymore. So I brought it into my shop to...

For some reason I have ants bad this year. I have been spraying seven on them but it just doesn't seen to do anything to them. I spray the seven around the outside of my house on the bottom of the house and ground. I have two different type of ants, large black ants and real small black ants...