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I pulled this mower out of the trash last summer. Physically it looked like it's in decent shape. And it has a bag. I tried to start it for the first time today. I'm not actually repairing it yet, I'll do that this summer. But I had it out so I figured let me give a few spins and see what...

Neighbor gave me a 10 year old Craftsman Yard Vac that was "used once then I never used it again". We have tons of large, old oak trees in this neighborhood that drop leaves the size of dinner plates, so a mulching yard vac is a very handy machine to have. Which is why I already have one! But...

I've been doing two fertilizer applications per season - one early in the spring, and one mid summer. I have a lawn spreader I purchased new that I use to apply. I also use it to spread insect killer twice a year and grass seed from time to time. So back to the fertilizer.... every time I...

I have a husqvarna push mower with a honda engine. I've been changing the oil every spring since it was new, always with mobile 1 0w-30 oil. Fancy stuff for a lawn mower but its only 19 oz so I think I can swing it. And the machine runs perfect. Basically brand new even though it's 5 years old...

I have an otherwise pretty nice Husqvarna 2 cycle gas weed wacker. AKA Trimmer. It's about 5 years old. It has two problems, which I'm sure are the same problem. And it's had them since it was new. Rather than fighting with this thing every week, I really should just fix it. Symptom 1: It dies...

I have an HU700H pushmower. It's about 6 years old maybe. I bought it brand new. It's a rear wheel drive model with a honda motor. Overall it's an excellent mower but man, they weren't thinking when they designed the oil drain! It's so short, and at a 45° angle, so as you tip it over, the oil...

I have a very old (1994) Craftsman yard vacuum. I use it every fall to suck up/mulch piles of leaves, and once in a while I use it to chip sticks if I have a large branch that falls. Attached is a photo so you can see the engine configuration. Nothing unusual. So here is the symptom: Every time...

I have a husqvarna mower (HU700H) with a single lever to adjust the mower height. It has 8 positions. I'm wondering what each lever position corresponds to grass height. I looked through the manual but this is all it says about the lever: During the season, I mow on the tallest setting which...

I have an HU700H model with a honda motor. I don't suppose this motor has the ability to make power? The days get real short in the fall and I would love to bolt a headlight on this thing. On my snow blower, I replaced it's incandescent bulb with an LED and then added another LED spot light...

My mother's lawnmower was smoking a little on startup. I mixed in some seafoam with her gas to try to clean it out. It no longer smokes but now it has this odd behavior. When you start it up and it's cold, it runs perfect. Then slowly, as it warms up, it starts pulsing. Not quite sputtering...

What is the mechanism this mower uses for it's clutch? Mine is starting to slip a lot, even though the cable feels nice and tight. The mower is only about 4 years old and is in great shape. But I have some steep areas of my lawn that are probably hard on whatever form of clutch it uses. This...

I had a post about this last year but had no luck. I took some fresh pics as it's started growing already. Location: Massachusetts This weed/grass starts growing way before anything else. They grow in bunches that are very... firm. When you mow the lawn and the wheels run over clumps, they...

I'm having particular problems with two different weeds in my lawn. Thankfully in different areas so I can tackle each separately. It may be relevant, I am located in the Northeast, outside of Boston but in the suburbs. And we've had a very cold spring so it's still very early in our growing...

This year when I fired up my snow blower for the first time, the engine was a little funny. It surges kind like the choke is on, but it does this with no choke on. And under no load, if I put it on half choke, it kind of smoothes out. We just got a big storm so I was clearing my driveway and...

I know this is the "lawnmowerforum" but is it ok to talk about other power machines besides lawn mowers? If so, I want to upgrade the lighting on my snow blower. Like so many, it has that one incandescent light bulb that does almost nothing. First, I need to know how much "free electricity" I...

I have a Craftsman yard vacuum. It actually works pretty well. But my yard is kind of rough and the thing has small wheels so I bought a pair of giant 12" wheels to help it roll smoother. They actually fit really well, AND turns out there's a second position I can put the axle in to help...

I'm 39 years old, I've been snow blowing for a very long time. I've used snow blowers of all sizes. The one thing they all have in common seems to be that they are underpowered for their size. Of course any blower can handle 2 inches of snow. But when you've got the deep stuff, most blowers...

Every time I click on the photos icon to add an image to a post, I get the following. I can select my image but there's no way to upload it. I have to click "manage attachments" down at the bottom of the new-post page and manage attachments through there to add an image to a post. I don't think...

My friend has an Ariens snow blower with a 420cc engine. It's in great shape, it's one of the giant 33" or 36" models. But, while everything is in good shape... the one exception is that the motor is junk. Harbor Freight makes a series of motors including a 420cc model that runs about $360. Is...

This trimmer is about 4 years old. I got it in an attempted to have all 4 cycle power tools so I wouldn't have to deal with mixing oil. But of course that didn't work out because you can't get 4 cycle chainsaws or leaf blowers. But whatever. This trimmer has been kind of high maintenance but...

I bought a fairly expensive troy bilt leaf blower because I specifically wanted one with a vacuum feature and their jump start feature. So of course the second time I go to use it, the jump start adapter shatters. Replacements are cheap enough thankfully: It looks like it just threads on, so...

I've been thinking about getting rid of the terrible incandescent bulb on the front of my snow blower and replacing it with an LED light. I was also thinking of taking it a little further and putting some other small amber lights in a few key spots to reduce the odds of me getting my *** run...

I just unboxed my new mower and it's very nice! You can certainly see the difference between this thing and a $200 machine. But I have one important question. It has a honda engine, 160cc i believe. The manual says it takes 18.5 ounces of oil, but the mower came with a bottle of just 15.5 ounce...

As you might imagine, I did not find this slit in my can by looking. Nope, I found it by trying to gas up my weed wacker, and spilling gas ALL OVER my shed. I easily spilled more gas from this one incident, than this new-fangled spill-reducing design has saved in the 3 years I've owned it...

I bought this old leaf blower for $35 on craigslist because I wanted something cheap that could vacuum and chop up leaves. It ran well at the time, except one of the exhaust bolts was stripped. Well it turns out it was the engine block that was stripped, not the bolt. But I was eventually able...

I was given this mower about 3 years ago. When I got it, it had all sorta of issues with the transmission and deck (see my other thread), but the engine ran great. I mean it was an ad for Honda. ~13 year old engine, deck falling apart, but the engine runs like it's brand new. Engine-wise, it...

I have an older craftsman mower that sputters a lot. It does it particularly bad when it's cold, much less so when it warms up. I've tried everything, fuel system cleaner, cleaning the carb, replacing the spark plug, using the freshest of fuel, changing the oil. Nothing seems to make any...

I was given a free Honda Harmony mower when I bought my house last summer. I wanted to buy a new mower but they are just so expensive. So I figured I'd see if I can fix up this Honda and use it for a year or two before getting something new (hopefully a husqvarna awd model). So anyway, the...