Hydrogear will pay 3 hours plus parts for repair or 1 hour labor plus the cost of the complete unit for warranty. If complete unit replaced will have to sent complete unit to hydrogear for warranty evaulation. If they determine failure not warranty you get billed the cost of the complete unit. Hydrogear will only warranty replacement units not covered by the original warranty for 90 days if you install the unit or as is if sold over the counter.Other than that three vendors not returning emails all last week. Will be on the phone this morning calling them. Probably get a lot run around especially from Hydro Gear as I got find what involved in becoming a dealer in order to get parts and complete new units warrantied. Gardner won't warranty then unless I am a dealer. I got a Bad Boy down with RH hydro bad that either needs a complete replacement or a major rebuild.
As for parts delivery it seems all the delivery companies are screwing up the last year. USPS is finally getting better with on time deliveries. They took a couple times to bearing three weeks on a three day priority shipment. UPS has lately been getting packages in Nashville and sending to Montgomery instead of Tullahoma before they finally get here. Takes an extra day to get the parts in. Don't usually get FedEx packages except when I order parts from Jacks.
I run into that issue with MTD/Yard Man/Yard machine/Remington all the time. Customer will call about an issue with the trimmer head. Warranty specifically excludes spark plug after first scheduled maintenance, air filter, starter rope, starter handle, starter pulley, starter spring, inner spool, outer spool, bump head, bump knob.
What's worst the customers never read the warranty fully to see that they written in such a way the manufacture covers nothing if they chose not cover it their faults.
GeesUpdate on injury. I have a high grade almost complete separation of the bicep tendon with the torn pieces retracting 9 mm, and a partial tear of the tendon that caused tennis elbow. Waiting on update from the doctor for treatment plan. Most likely will have surgery in the next week. Then start the 3-4 month recovery period.
Good for you...It is our place to made the OEM whole by doing work for free when it is not our fault. I just signed up for the Hydro Gear dealer program and already thinking it is a mistake. Just ordered my first new transaxle and am getting a surprise $150 shipping charge from Gardner. No mention of it when I placed the order. And look at this nasty note on my invoice.We quit doing Briggs warranty work, not our place to do warranty work for free.
Medart isn't any better for freight, And Star is not in their distribution zone for Hydrogear. He is in Gardners distribution area for hydrogear and several other brands.Try Medart https://www.medartengine.com/
You right as I am in the AL/TN area. And I can actually the Hydro Gear parts from RBI too just at slightly higher cost. It is Tuff Torq parts that I must buy thru Gardner.Medart isn't any better for freight, And Star is not in their distribution zone for Hydrogear. He is in Gardners distribution area for hydrogear and several other brands.
Hope you get better soon.Update on injury. I have a high grade almost complete separation of the bicep tendon with the torn pieces retracting 9 mm, and a partial tear of the tendon that caused tennis elbow. Waiting on update from the doctor for treatment plan. Most likely will have surgery in the next week. Then start the 3-4 month recovery period.
What in the heck did you do to get this injury? Just curious, you don't have to say. Just sounds really bad.Update on injury. I have a high grade almost complete separation of the bicep tendon with the torn pieces retracting 9 mm, and a partial tear of the tendon that caused tennis elbow. Waiting on update from the doctor for treatment plan. Most likely will have surgery in the next week. Then start the 3-4 month recovery period.
Large round chuck of firewood, that was leaning against another smaller piece and I put my fingers under the edge of the wood, and started to lift to set it on edge, and at the start of the lift things went pop pop. From my understanding it is a very common injury in the 40-60 year class. It is caused by pulling on a straight elbow and the tendons since they are totally straight attempt to hold the elbow together under the strain and tear loose from the bone when things go wrong.What in the heck did you do to get this injury? Just curious, you don't have to say. Just sounds really bad.
Holding the arm straight is the equivalent of banging your elbow on a table. rotating your wrist from palm down to palm up is like getting stabbed, and bending the elbow normally is like getting slapped with a rubber band while being burned. I can go from 1 to yelling out on the pain scale just by reaching for something.Yeoww ! Sounds very painful. Take care, & I'm in the well past 60 group.
I can see those not getting done for a while; unless, the customer pulls the jobs.And this weeks projects was suppose to be replacing the rear cv shafts and doing a full service on a Polaris ranger. replacing the hydro drive belt and replacing the right hydro hose on a Big dog mower.
I think a lot of us have...Or at least I did back in my mid 20's by just lifting an IBM Selectric typewriter from on shelf to one higher. I didn't make it but as I went to the floor I did manage to save the typewriter. Out of work for two months then. Got better but 10 yrs the pain came back. I finally gotten it straighten out around 60. Turned out I had been living with a dislocated vertebrata for years.Ouch, I wear a back brace when I'm gonna do some heavy stuff. It helps. Hurt my back very long ago.
I can understand the back pain also. diagnosed with mild to moderate spondylosis with nitrogen gas pocket formation in the l1-l5 with stenosis at the l5/s1 junction.I think a lot of us have...Or at least I did back in my mid 20's by just lifting an IBM Selectric typewriter from on shelf to one higher. I didn't make it but as I went to the floor I did manage to save the typewriter. Out of work for two months then. Got better but 10 yrs the pain came back. I finally gotten it straighten out around 60. Turned out I had been living with a dislocated vertebrata for years.
Now if I got to done things like removing an engine I use a lift. Oh I know it looks like overkill but I don't enjoy pain.
All it takes to get hurt is to lift the wrong way at the wrong time. It sorta like my luck with the lottery tickets, all bad at times.
That at least you are still got better coverage a lot better than my zero coverage.Star I have coverage if I use their facilities. Outside of the network I foot 100% of the bill.
I keep hearing things like they want to cut it out altogether.
Yes it was initially setup to maintain itself but as you said they just keep dipping into it for other purposes and never repaying the fund. And the fund really took a hit the first two years of the Covid pandemic. Well actually the tax scheme took a hit. Plus it doesn't help that some taxpayers completely avoid paying their fair share in taxes.And call it an "Entitlement"............. Well it is, I paid in all my working years to it, since I was a kid.. But the politicians had to dip into it, it was self sufficient..Sustaining itself.
And how many of those people that retire at 62-65 due to past injuries and other health issues will now be drawing disability.Yes it was initially setup to maintain itself but as you said they just keep dipping into it for other purposes and never repaying the fund. And the fund really took a hit the first two years of the Covid pandemic. Well actually the tax scheme took a hit. Plus it doesn't help that some taxpayers completely avoid paying their fair share in taxes.
Right now I know a company that paying its workers cash and not paying any payroll taxes, plus when they sale products for cash they don't collect and pay the sale taxes. So it looks like they are not making as much as they are. No wonder they are building up so fast.
Just yesterday I read where the Republicans are now pushing for Medicare to start at 70 instead of 65 and they wanting to raise the full retirement age for Social Security benefits be move to 70 too instead of the current 67. The reason behind the idea is that we are living longer due better health care. It bad enough for me when they moved me to 67 and 8 months years ago now. Well I will just take the hit on the monthly payments and still retire at 65 which is 1yr and 7 months (and counting down) away.
As the article mention we seniors as a whole will be a lot less healthy by then and will actually cost Medicare more to cover us. But that is apparently not taken into the thinking of the bureaucrats. That sorta like buying cheaper mower to only find out later that it costs more to maintain it.
Dang!!!!! Praying for you bro.Update on elbow. If nothing changes will be having distal bicep reattachment surgery after the first of the year. Then will start my 4 month vacation.
IF it is going to work then go for itUpdate on elbow. If nothing changes will be having distal bicep reattachment surgery after the first of the year. Then will start my 4 month vacation.
With this surgery and recovery. Taking your time is the name of the game. One week of wearing a cast or locked arm brace. Five weeks of the lockable arm brace that is set to limit arm movement to avoid tearing the bicep tendon loose again while stretching the tendon back out to reach full arm straightening because it takes 6 weeks for the tendon to start to grow back into the bone and couple more weeks to be fully attached. Then at least another 6 weeks of rehab to strengthen the muscles before being turned loose for full use. Without this tendon repair I could be very limited in being able to lift anything palm up or tightening anything that resembles turning a doorknob. Up to 60% lose of strength is possibleIF it is going to work then go for it
Times like this makes me very grateful we have universal health care down here.
Take it easy, do the rehab & don't rush yourself
It has been 18 months since the RA crippled me and despite regularly challenging the body & doing all of the exercises the grip strength is less that 1/2 the pre RA and increasing very slowly , forearms are just over 1/2 & legs and just about as good as I can expect according to the occupational therapist .
We don't heal any where near as fast as we age so it is easy to say "what the heck" , turn on the TV and get caught in that downward spiral .
Good luck