Walk behind Are lawn mowers ever lasting ?

[JDgreen]

Ok I'm going to be blunt Their is no way in hell that he has 10,000 hours on a air cooled engine
TOTAL BS

Yeah, HORSE SQUEEZE HORSE PATOOIE....:laughing:

 

[reynoldston]

Ok I'm going to be blunt Their is no way in hell that he has 10,000 hours on a air cooled engine
TOTAL BS

Who cares, you know and I know it's just a untrue story. I am sure this is not the first one you have ever heard. 10,000 hrs on a water cooled engine without any overhaul would be pushing it. Wouldn't that be like a 1,000,000 miles on a big truck?

 

[jmurray01]

OK guys, Jesus Christ!

Maybe I got the calculations a bit wrong but it does have a lot of hours on it.

I'm surprised I haven't been bombed yet the way you guys are acting.

Oh and for the record there is a truck that has 1,000,000 miles on it.

 

[possum]

It is common around here to take the miles divided by 50 to get the hours but is only a rough estimate. Semi tractor trailer rigs are common with over a million miles on the engine. Irrigation engines do some times make close to the 10,000 mark and I have seen some John Deer farm tractors with 10,000. But never have I ran across a small gasser with a claim of 10,000 lol. There is less than 10,000 hours in a year. Even in 20 years it is tough to be mowing for over a year.

 

[benski]

I'll overlook the math error.:smile: Heck, this is just a friendly place to talk about lawnmowers and related equipment, after all. My all-time high hour engine candidates are the diesels and heavy fuel engines found in commercial vessels. A lot of the slow-turners (less than 500 RPM) go 25,000 hrs. or more. But they do live a much better life than a lawnmower; centrifuge-cleaned oiling systems in addition to media filtering, almost constant inspection, steady state load for days on end, fresh water cooled,etc.:licking:

 

[reynoldston]

I guess the the point I was trying to make who cares how many hrs on a push mower. I guess you would have to rig up a hour meter somehow to know or keep a log every time you use it? jmurray01 wants his well liked mower to last forever . Who knows what is forever. I have two toro's push mowers that are over well 20 years old but have very few hours on them seeing they are just trim mowers. We are just talking about a homeowner throwaway mower. When it is worn out throwaway and buy new 1 year or 50 years. I guess I am not a saver when it comes to anything mechanical.

 

[JDgreen]

A while ago I started a thread on TBN asking:

If a tractor has one operating hour on it, about how many miles does that correspond to as compared to a road use vehicle? There were many different opinions suggested, but if I recall right, a majority of them thought one running hour on a tractor was equal to about 35-40 miles. If I use that calculation, my near-900 mile JD has about 32000 to 36000 miles of operation on it.

BTW, I used to drive medium-duty straight trucks up to 30 tons GVW for a living. Even the low end of the diesel engine range (Cummins 5.9, 3208 Cat, Navistar DT-466) etc would easily go 350,000 miles before a rebuild, with proper maintenance. A million miles of operation on a semitractor diesel is considered a low figure.

If we calculate the 3.5 mph walking speed most push mowers have, we end up with 35000 miles of walking for 10,000 hours of use. At the equator, it is close to 25,000 miles around the earth. At a 20 inch cutting width, how many acres would you mow during one trip around the earth?

Yes you guys, I am being silly here. :laughing:

 

[Black Bart]

A while ago I started a thread on TBN asking:

If a tractor has one operating hour on it, about how many miles does that correspond to as compared to a road use vehicle? There were many different opinions suggested, but if I recall right, a majority of them thought one running hour on a tractor was equal to about 35-40 miles. If I use that calculation, my near-900 mile JD has about 32000 to 36000 miles of operation on it.

BTW, I used to drive medium-duty straight trucks up to 30 tons GVW for a living. Even the low end of the diesel engine range (Cummins 5.9, 3208 Cat, Navistar DT-466) etc would easily go 350,000 miles before a rebuild, with proper maintenance. A million miles of operation on a semitractor diesel is considered a low figure.

If we calculate the 3.5 mph walking speed most push mowers have, we end up with 35000 miles of walking for 10,000 hours of use. At the equator, it is close to 25,000 miles around the earth. At a 20 inch cutting width, how many acres would you mow during one trip around the earth?

Yes you guys, I am being silly here. :laughing:

DAM How many axles did you have under that straight truck that you could Gross 60,000 lbs.

 

[JDgreen]

DAM How many axles did you have under that straight truck that you could Gross 60,000 lbs.

10 wheel straight truck, tandem rear axle, Chevy C-65, 366 gas big block, 5 speed/2 speed rear, 24 foot van body on the back. Michigan law permits 16,000 -18,000 pounds per axle and it was used mainly to deliver full pallets of copy paper. With no load the springs were stiff enough to shake the driver apart even when belted in. The GVW for commercial trucks is always higher than the legal weight limit they can carry.

 

[Black Bart]

10 wheel straight truck, tandem rear axle, Chevy C-65, 366 gas big block, 5 speed/2 speed rear, 24 foot van body on the back. Michigan law permits 16,000 -18,000 pounds per axle and it was used mainly to deliver full pallets of copy paper. With no load the springs were stiff enough to shake the driver apart even when belted in. The GVW for commercial trucks is always higher than the legal weight limit they can carry.

Ok you was talking what the tag said not what you hauled.

I know for years we were allowed 72,000 on 5 axle tractor trailer then they raised it to 80,000

I hated to go to Michigan in the spring that dam frost law I was legal everywhere but Michigan paid a few big fines up their.:frown: