Mower Humor

Semtex

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Post your funny images, videos, jokes and riddles to do with mowers, lawn equipment and lawn care in general. ???
I will start the thread off with a few.

Hedge Trimmer
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Is the lateral or horizontal thinking?
 

fritz1255

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I don't have a picture, just a story. I do the "trim" mowing with a steel deck Snapper from the 1990's. The mower is so heavy that it takes two of us to lift it into the car if we need to bring it somewhere. I was away on a business trip, so my wife decided to cut the grass. Later, she complained about how hard it was to push. I asked her if she had used the self-propelled feature. You guessed it, no. She must have built some muscles that day.
 

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THIS might be better than an OEM filter. Put a little SAE 30w on her and give it a squeeze. Has two stages of ultra cleanness. Probably cheaper than most filters too. Little trimming to fit the housing.......

Forget K&N, the wife's kitchen sponges are the new hot rod filter.

Okay all jokes aside, what would be wrong with this if it was trimmed proper to fit and oiled?

slomo
 
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We had one of those Craftsman 22" 6.75 Eager-1 self-propelled lawn mowers' w/Tecumseh engine. One day it wouldn't start before I discovered it had a blown cylinder head gasket. Found one online at searspartsdirect; OEM; great price (I think approx $7); arrived in a couple days.

I set the mower up on a table I hastily constructed in the garage from sawhorses & half a solid core door blank. My Shining Bride came out to watch my amazing mechanical skills in action.

While cleaning the cylinder head and gasket surfaces, I somewhat smugly showed her my classic Craftsman 1/2" torque wrench I had found at Hardwick & Sons over 20 years ago, as I confidently explained what it was for, and how important it was to torque bolts to their correct torque values &c!
And saying, Yeah, Sweetie, I've had this ol' 1/2" Craftsman torque wrench here since I was a mere teenager! Yeah, I've been using this trusty ol' torque wrench for some 20 or 30 years! Yep. Prolly on too many vehicles to even count. *smug sniff & nod of a pro*

She was impressed.

Then I told her she'd have to wait a few moments—while I went to check the torque value specs—before being even more impressed by witnessing it and me in action as I performed incredible mechanical feats of torqueing.

I took a quick glance at the tech manual; the torque value spec showed: 200 lbs.

After returning to the garage and adjusted the torque wrench up to 200 lbs, I recall saying something like . . . Hmmm, I haven't torqued anything to this high of a torque setting for a long time, if ever!

Then while ratcheting the head bolts in their torque sequence pattern—several times, over and over, and over without the TW clicking—I recall repeating something like . . . Hmm, this seems really tight for these bolts!?. . . while my Shining Bride was still watching me, still looking impressed, still with that look of: Oooh! That's my man. Fixin' our lawnmower!

Then as I continued ratcheting we both heard the sharp report of the aluminum cylinder head crack. ? ? ?

Hmmm, I said, as I noticed the crack. Um, I think I'll go double-check the torque spec.

200 in-lbs . . INCH POUNDS ! ? = 16.6 ft-lbs = 22.5 N-m

I didn't even own or know anything about in-lbs & N-m torque wrenches at the time!

New cylinder head . . . $40

Another cylinder head gasket . . . $7

Paying close and proper attention to the specifications, while not being so over-confident you forget to exercise some good ol' common sense for crying out loud, so to avoid looking like a complete and total idiot . . . Priceless !
 
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Scrubcadet10

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LOL!!
i'm surprised the threads didn't strip out before the head cracked!
 
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