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Is there a reason why B&S does not install pull starters on their larger engines? I'm thinking anything larger than 15hp, like 18HP and up. Is it because an engine of this size would be too hard to pull start for the average person or do they figure people are just getting lazy?

I have a 2010 Craftsman (rebadged Husqvarna) with a B&S 22hp engine and a 48" deck. It has a hydrostatic transmission if that matters. The only reason I mention this is the website below says a weak battery or one with not enough CCA will damage the power take off.

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HUH? Does this even apply to my mower? Is a hydrostatic transmission and a POT the same thing? I thought a PTO was an yoke attachment that spins that came out of the rear differential on a tractor you could run a mowing machine or some other implement off of.

The battery on my mower has just recently bit the dust. It went flat over the winter so I recharged it in May when I started mowing this season (yeah really) and it actually held a charge for a couple of months until the other day when it went flat again. I gave it a quick charge for about 30 minutes then mowed for about 4 hours. I don't know if four hours was sufficient to charge a battery or not. Or if the dynamo has enough amps to actually recharge a dead battery.

As I normally do, I let it cool down before pulling into my yard barn. After sitting for a couple of hours, the starter struggled to turn over but it did start. The next day the battery was flat.

Since I am almost halfway through the mowing season, I'm thinking about just giving it a quick charge before mowing then come next spring I'll replace the battery. What's weird is, the date on the battery says Oct 2010, yet I purchased this mower in the May of 2010. How is that possible?

I've noticed that batteries are getting more expensive and the quailty is going downhill. I remember just ten years ago you could buy a cheap car battery for $30 that would last 7-10 years if you kept it topped off with demin water. Now a $110 car battery has a 2 year pro-rated warranty and you are lucky if they last three years.

A PTO is anything that is used to power another attachment, which would be the electric clutch that powers the mower deck. Batteries do seem to be getting weaker over the years. I imagine the date that you see on the battery is the recharge if not used by date, which would be a year after manufacture. which means your battery was made in October of 2009. if you purchased it is may 2010 then that would be an old battery when you purchased it, since wet charge batteries are to be put into use within 6 months of manufacture, and should have not even been on the shelf after 90 days.

ILENGINE said:

A PTO is anything that is used to power another attachment, which would be the electric clutch that powers the mower deck. Batteries do seem to be getting weaker over the years. I imagine the date that you see on the battery is the recharge if not used by date, which would be a year after manufacture. which means your battery was made in October of 2009. if you purchased it is may 2010 then that would be an old battery when you purchased it, since wet charge batteries are to be put into use within 6 months of manufacture, and should have not even been on the shelf after 90 days.

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This was a "brought back" mower I got which was marked down about at least $200. The battery on it was dead and I talked them into replacing it if I bought it.

The salesman said someone brought it back because it vibrarted too bad through the steering wheel with the blade on. It did vibrate but not enough to bother me. Interesting enough the salesman's stated that the 42" and the 56" decks did not do this. Only the 48" decks.

Come to find out, Husquvarna saved some money by deleting a plate that bolts to the frame under the engine. For some reason this only effected the 48" deck models. Apparantly the models with the 56" decks had this plate but the 42" decks without the plate did not cause any vibration. So they sent out a guy who installed a brace to go between the frame rails under the engine.