Poll Pick My Next Lawn Mower

Pick My Next Lawn Mower

  • Honda

    Votes: 14 51.9%

  • Toro

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • Potato Salad

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Total voters
    27
dikowt dowg said:
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2024 SCAG POWER EQUIPMENT CHEETAH II 72 IN. BRIGGS VANGUARD BIG BLOCK EFI 40 HP​


@fordman84 I'm looking at getting this mower. It comes with a 40hp Vanguard engine ... which I understand is a Briggs and Stratton product. I've never been a fan, but know you like them.

Do you have any information on this particular engine?
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If I were going that big, I think I'd look at ones with a spring suspension.
The 42'' I have beats me to death in residential yards.
 
dikowt dowg said:
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2024 SCAG POWER EQUIPMENT CHEETAH II 72 IN. BRIGGS VANGUARD BIG BLOCK EFI 40 HP​


@fordman84 I'm looking at getting this mower. It comes with a 40hp Vanguard engine ... which I understand is a Briggs and Stratton product. I've never been a fan, but know you like them.

Do you have any information on this particular engine?
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The vanguard line are commercial, I'd have no issue with it.
 
I've taken to using chevron 94 in my mower. Alcohol seems to gum things up and is hard on anything rubber.

I also syphoned the tank dry when I was finished with it in the fall, then let it run till it stopped.

When I pulled it out this year and put gas in, it started first pull.

25 years old Honda and still chugging hard.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
I've taken to using chevron 94 in my mower. Alcohol seems to gum things up and is hard on anything rubber.

I also syphoned the tank dry when I was finished with it in the fall, then let it run till it stopped.

When I pulled it out this year and put gas in, it started first pull.

25 years old Honda and still chugging hard.
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My 30 year old Craftsman B&S 6.75 still chugging along. After 29 years, I felt guilty and changed the air filter and spark plug for the first time!!!!
 
Center Ice said:
My 30 year old Craftsman B&S 6.75 still chugging along. After 29 years, I felt guilty and changed the air filter and spark plug for the first time!!!!
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Yeah, I’ve never done anything like that either. Changed the blade once. Both my craftsman’s rusted right through. I might’ve had that same 6.75 HP one you have. I loved it but it didn’t love me. At one point I took an old coffee can and spread it out, flattened it and screwed it on to the housing. Grass was flying up through it until I did that.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
Yeah, I’ve never done anything like that either. Changed the blade once. Both my craftsman’s rusted right through. I might’ve had that same 6.75 HP one you have. I loved it but it didn’t love me. At one point I took an old coffee can and spread it out, flattened it and screwed it on to the housing. Grass was flying up through it until I did that.
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ROFL!!! How the fuck did it rust through?
 
Center Ice said:
ROFL!!! How the fuck did it rust through?
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I don’t know, it wasn’t very heavy gauge metal and it wasn’t aluminum like my Honda. It just rusted through on the side opposite to the Shute.
Not a single thing other than that was ever wrong with it. And I just gave it to someone who bought my parents house that needed a lawnmower.
My first craftsman was a very simple one, but I fucked it up by hitting a stump. Broke the pin, bent the shaft. Off to the dump.
 
Left the battery plugged in to the charger all winter and can still get 75% of the lawn done

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I’ve been using the VP synthetic fuel in both premixed and four stroke.

It’s a little more expensive, but I can leave the fuel in there all winter long and they crank right up. No more cleaning carburetors, no more using a fuel stabilizer and no more having to buy carburetors when shit doesn’t crank.
 
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