Does anyone else have an hour meter on their mower? Little or big? I put one on my new Toro Super Recycler and my wife thinks I am nuts. (I am a maintenance freak).
The 710 change intervals are 25 hours. I mow ~17,500 sqft 1 or 2 times a week which may take 1.5 to 2 hours a time. It still April and I already have 12 hours of run time on my old mower this season. (Granted this is a freakish season) I guess I could estimate but I would rather have an accurate reading.
How do you keep track? Once a season, when it needs it?
Just time how long it takes to use a tank of fuel. Or how long it takes to mow your yard. Or go by when you need to sharpen your blade. Or by the month of the year. The oil change is not set in stone. The oil police will not jump out from behind a tree and rough you up for draining at 12 hours instead of 25.
That would be entirely too simple for an engineer.
#4
pugaltitude
Fit a briggs service expert. Servis Expert
Fit it to machine and everytime the engine runs it vibrates the expert which then counts the hours and advises if you should change oil, filters etc...
I just now by the oil color brown ish black change clear keep mowing with a beer
#6
midnite rider
Heres another choice for a vibration activated hour meter. Check up to five results to perform an action.Totally sealed IP67, even works underwater. Five different mounting options.
I never rack up enough hours to require more than one service per season, but for future referance I keep track of the hours by keeping a list of each use and how long it was used for on a piece of paper.
I picked up one of the ones that works off the field generated by the charge in the spark plug wire. I like to mow so I do it once or twice a week and after a 20-30 week season running the mower 1-5 hours a week can have a pretty wide margin of error. Seemed like pretty cheap insurance. I was less asking advice about hour meters and more wondering if anyone else uses them. I think that I am using a 22" mower on 17.5k sq-ft is on the upper end of it's ability so I want to keep ahead on the maintainence.
