My New Mower!

[cutty1998]

Hey cutty check these out! Refurbed these this summer!

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OMG !! Outstanding! Very impressive. Those would take first place in a Lawn Boy convention!!

 

[Two-Stroke]

Yes ,I saw that it was a Suzuki engine .I have never seen one of those(Suzuki engine) on a mower. I owned several Yamaha RD400 2 stroke twin Street bikes when I was younger. They were too much fun. I think it would be neat to yank the muffler off ,& put an expansion chamber on a 2 stroke mower to hear it wing!! ,like the ones those kids put on their Go-peds. I guess it would be annoying after a while ,but crazy anyway.I wonder if anyone out there has done that.

I've thought about that mod for the Suzuki-Toro... it would require fabricating the expansion chamber and some mounts but the result would be awesome.

 

[Two-Stroke]

Hey cutty check these out! Refurbed these this summer!

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Those are a couple of the finest mowers ever made. The only trouble is that you make them so pretty that the tendency is to just look at them -- as opposed to doing some mowing. :laughing:

 

[Fireman 123]

Hey cutty check these out! Refurbed these this summer!

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Nice work! Those would fetch a pretty penny!

 

[thehemikid]

Thanks for the post & thread guys. I've saved some of the info under "next mower", :smile: about the F series with the air screw adjustment, & the Toro 21 possibly being a little stronger than the F. I have a LB 10227 I bought for mowing a steep bank (~28*) that I've attached to my 721D to make life easier (disabled) once a week.

One time the grass got more than a foot high on that bank cause the coil quit from moisture, & I learned (on this forum I think) to bake the coil. Had to do that a couple more times till finally bought a new coil. Anyway, the LB mowed it, not like butter, but far better than pushing it along the bank for about 200' x 4 passes.

Mine probably needs a better tune, but the more power of the F, & Toro 21 interests me "if & when" I decide I need Mo-power.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Thanks for the post & thread guys. I've saved some of the info under "next mower", :smile: about the F series with the air screw adjustment, & the Toro 21 possibly being a little stronger than the F. I have a LB 10227 I bought for mowing a steep bank (~28*) that I've attached to my 721D to make life easier (disabled) once a week.

One time the grass got more than a foot high on that bank cause the coil quit from moisture, & I learned (on this forum I think) to bake the coil. Had to do that a couple more times till finally bought a new coil. Anyway, the LB mowed it, not like butter, but far better than pushing it along the bank for about 200' x 4 passes.

Mine probably needs a better tune, but the more power of the F, & Toro 21 interests me "if & when" I decide I need Mo-power.

I like that pic...pretty cool! :thumbsup:

 

[dancer]

Is someone saying that you can still buy a two-stroke Lawn Boy walk-behind mower? I've been told (and did a minor amount of research to back it up) that the 2-strokes were history and the 4-strokes that "replaced" them (same color but nothing else as good) weren't worth having. I loved my two-strokes -- all three of them over a 10 year span -- because they would mow upside down if you could figure a way to get fuel into the carb. The engines wore out quickly in my use but the mowers were still worth the money and then some.

If I can get new ones, I want them!

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Is someone saying that you can still buy a two-stroke Lawn Boy walk-behind mower? I've been told (and did a minor amount of research to back it up) that the 2-strokes were history and the 4-strokes that "replaced" them (same color but nothing else as good) weren't worth having. I loved my two-strokes -- all three of them over a 10 year span -- because they would mow upside down if you could figure a way to get fuel into the carb. The engines wore out quickly in my use but the mowers were still worth the money and then some.

If I can get new ones, I want them!

WELCOME TO LMF!
I didn't think you could get any NEW 2-stroke Lawnboys. All the ones Lawnboy still makes (these: http://lawnboy.com/wpmModels/models.html) I believe are 4-cycle. I could be wrong. But a lot of people buy older Lawnboys on ebay or Craigslist, so people can still get 2-stroke ones even if they are not manufactured still.

 

[Fireman 123]

WELCOME TO LMF!
I didn't think you could get any NEW 2-stroke Lawnboys. All the ones Lawnboy still makes (these: http://lawnboy.com/wpmModels/models.html) I believe are 4-cycle. I could be wrong. But a lot of people buy older Lawnboys on ebay or Craigslist, so people can still get 2-stroke ones even if they are not manufactured still.

The tried and true 2 cycle LB's are long gone. The last "good" ones were the F series engines, and they stopped producing them back in the 90's. Then you could get the V series, and Duraforce up until '03 I think, but they don't have near the same reputation as the older models.

 

[turfboy1997]

Well i wasn't going to say anything about the mower that i have on ebay right now, but i just could not resist! I have a restored 1979 F series 7268 on ebay as we speak. I have been running lawn boys for a long time and have not enjoyed mowing the yard as much as i did this year with this mower! It has incredible compression, and it runs better than it looks! I am not going to cheap sell it though because i went the extra mile and found New OEM plastic wheels for it! i have had it on CL for a month now with no bites. It needs to go to a collector or someone who loves lawn boys and will take care of them like they should. I am hoping i get what i want out of it, but i am prepared to hang on to it through the winter and list it again in the spring if needed.