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03-31-2020 09:19 AM #1
I love it! Absolutely agree about the hot rodder statement.
I have pieced together push mowers over the years, myself. I once took a Briggs engine and put it on a Lawn Boy frame with a homebuilt adapter. The local mower dealer sold me the old Lawn Boy frame cheap with the bagging attachment because the original 2-stroke engine was shot. Lawn Boy built great aluminum decks, but their engines weren't that great (IMO). I scrapped the Briggs engine together from my pile-O-parts and it made a really good mower. The same dealer that sold me the frame sold new Snapper push mowers for $300 to $400 at the time. Mine, that worked just as well, cost me about $30, if I recall.
When I was a kid, I mowed lawns to make money, mostly with a push mower. I had a bunch to mow in the end and went through an engine every 2 years. I was using a Snapper push mower with a Briggs engine. A replacement engine from the Snapper dealer was over $100 at the time, but I figured out that the mowers that the local Five and Dime stores sold new for around $40 on sale had basically the same Briggs engine. So, I bought one of the cheapo mowers and swapped engines to the better Snapper frame. Worked great and saved me a lot of hard earned cash.Mike
I seldom do anything within the scope of logical reason and calculated cost/benefit, etc-
I'm following my passion
Sorry for your loss of friend Mike McGee, Shine. Great trans men are few and far between, it seems. Sadly, Mike Frade was only 66 and had been talking about retirement for ten years that I know...
We Lost a Good One