11-30-2014, 02:09 PM
We have two push mowers which are both less than a year old and both broken at the moment. One is a Honda self propelled the other a toro. Both cost between 3-4 hundred usually. We mow our acre every two weeks which takes 4 in a half hours each time we mow. So that equates to 9 hours a month or 108 hours a year.
Wheels fall off, gas caps get broken, blades bend, self-propelled part goes frequently all this and more happens before they are even a year old. I have yet to change a spark plug on any mower because they simply don't last long enough. Every year around these holidays I have to buy a new push mower and find a junkyard or chap who wants to recycle my Jason or Freddy type of machines.
I know I could buy a riding mower and miss the work out, yet then I may need a gym membership in hilo to burn some of these pounds that seem to find my waste easier with age. I figure someone who mows half an hour, once a month on a fifth of an acre can get these same type of mowers to last maybe 20 years. From what I have experienced from these cheap mowers these days is that they don't make them like they use too, kind of like cars. Hawaii's weather or climate may affect how long some of these mowers last also.
If anyone is fixing these types of machines in the area they are probably busy.
Wheels fall off, gas caps get broken, blades bend, self-propelled part goes frequently all this and more happens before they are even a year old. I have yet to change a spark plug on any mower because they simply don't last long enough. Every year around these holidays I have to buy a new push mower and find a junkyard or chap who wants to recycle my Jason or Freddy type of machines.
I know I could buy a riding mower and miss the work out, yet then I may need a gym membership in hilo to burn some of these pounds that seem to find my waste easier with age. I figure someone who mows half an hour, once a month on a fifth of an acre can get these same type of mowers to last maybe 20 years. From what I have experienced from these cheap mowers these days is that they don't make them like they use too, kind of like cars. Hawaii's weather or climate may affect how long some of these mowers last also.
If anyone is fixing these types of machines in the area they are probably busy.
