Hey everyone! Hope everyone enjoyed the first day of spring!
I started mowing grass what I was knee high to a grass hopper and pulled my first mower apart when I was 10 years old. It was a neighbor's locked up Tecumseh powered Lawn Boy. Ran it without oil and he gave it to me to pull it apart so I could see how it all worked.
Pulled my first two cycle down shortly after the mower. It was a Homelite Yard Broom I believe. My other neighbor put it on the curb and I picked it up and actually got it running. Decided to pull it apart when the primmer blub on the old Zama carb finally busted. I actually ended up gaining that neighbor as a yard maintenance customer that I still have today. It takes me about 45 minutes to do his yard, but after I'm done we spend another hour or so talking about everything under the sun. He's an old machinist with tons of technical knowledge. Great guy and great friend.
Have a huge fleet of hand held equipment ranging from a 1973ish Homelite EZ saw all the way to a 2013 Echo SRM-280T weedeater. My mower fleet is also pretty large and includes an old Excello Reel mower with good ol' Briggs 5S from 1950 that runs like a top.
Looking forward to contributing to the various conversations that take place on this forum!
I started mowing grass what I was knee high to a grass hopper and pulled my first mower apart when I was 10 years old. It was a neighbor's locked up Tecumseh powered Lawn Boy. Ran it without oil and he gave it to me to pull it apart so I could see how it all worked.
Pulled my first two cycle down shortly after the mower. It was a Homelite Yard Broom I believe. My other neighbor put it on the curb and I picked it up and actually got it running. Decided to pull it apart when the primmer blub on the old Zama carb finally busted. I actually ended up gaining that neighbor as a yard maintenance customer that I still have today. It takes me about 45 minutes to do his yard, but after I'm done we spend another hour or so talking about everything under the sun. He's an old machinist with tons of technical knowledge. Great guy and great friend.
Have a huge fleet of hand held equipment ranging from a 1973ish Homelite EZ saw all the way to a 2013 Echo SRM-280T weedeater. My mower fleet is also pretty large and includes an old Excello Reel mower with good ol' Briggs 5S from 1950 that runs like a top.
Looking forward to contributing to the various conversations that take place on this forum!