Riding lawn mowers

[Mermaid]

a goat is a perfectly respectable alternative to buying a lawnmower.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

a goat is a perfectly respectable alternative to buying a lawnmower.

And goat hair can be sold. I watched Mike Rowe collect yak hair a few days ago. That man is still crazy.

[stromboli]

City people. Can you say goat droppings? We are talking about a lawn fertilized unevenly, with too much goat shit in one spot to burn the grass, other spots growing faster, etc. Goats are also somewhat territorial. They have skulls the thickness of a tree and like to butt things. Lawnmowers will not attack you when you bend over to pick something up. Unless, of course, you left it running in gear without the brake on..........

And females are more territorial than males. My brother had a goat for about a year. It ended up being goat stew after it butted one of his kids, ate some carefully grown and treasured flowers, got loose on several occasions and had to be hunted down, etc. And the only way you get milk is to get a nanny goat pregnant, which makes it more territorial and even nastier. And they will eat fucking near anything, including chewing the paint off your house. I speak from experience, growing up in farm country.

I'd give the service a second thought. Upkeep is zilch and you don't need a trailer to haul it into the dealer for maintenance. You can also leave whenever you want and know the yard work is done without having to be there periodically to do it yourself.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

So we settled on the sears model 20390.. Here's the reviews from  todaysmower.com.. http://todaysmower.com/2015/2014-2015-craftsman-t3000-model-20390-42-in-22-hp-yard-tractor-review/ Just in time for another week of rain..

[antediluvian]

So we settled on the sears model 20390.. Here's the reviews from  todaysmower.com.. http://todaysmower.com/2015/2014-2015-craftsman-t3000-model-20390-42-in-22-hp-yard-tractor-review/

Nice toy.  Have fun APA
From your ol gal.

[Desdinova]

APA, just don't end up like these guys....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHZWAaK_qzQ

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I took the maiden voyage on the tractor today and happy to report no deaths! I was nearly mortified for just a moment that I was going to dump it and myself into the lake,  but geometry kicked in and I was able to figure out how to not do that.. Grass is all cut and trimmed and no animals were harmed except the many ants I ran over to send flying at high speed across the yard and into the street..

[SGOS]

I fear my Cub Cadet might be giving up the ghost.  It's losing power. It no longer has the power to blow clippings up the tube into the grass catcher. And it crawls up hills.  The motor runs steady.  It just doesn't have any get up and go, and it's losing power day by day.  My lawn mower guy doesn't have a clue why.  He said that the compression was good, and the spark plug looked good.    The guy that works for Cub Cadet says he's booked up for two weeks.  I could probably get my neighbor to mow my lawn with his tractor once, but I'm getting mentally prepared to fork out some big cash for a new one.  That's right, just buy my way out of my headache.  Comments? 

[Johan]

I fear my Cub Cadet might be giving up the ghost.  It's losing power. It no longer has the power to blow clippings up the tube into the grass catcher. And it crawls up hills.  The motor runs steady.  It just doesn't have any get up and go, and it's losing power day by day. 

If the motor is running like normal and the compression is good, then something has to be happening between the motor and the work (i.e. mowing and going) which would suggest a transmission problem. Is it a hydrostatic drive? If so, hows the trans fluid? If everything is belt driven, are the belts tight?

[SGOS]

If the motor is running like normal and the compression is good, then something has to be happening between the motor and the work (i.e. mowing and going) which would suggest a transmission problem. Is it a hydrostatic drive? If so, hows the trans fluid? If everything is belt driven, are the belts tight?

The belts are one of my suspicions.  Last summer (mid summer), my mower guy replaced the main drive belt, which had broken.  The first time I used it this spring, the same drive belt broke again.  Something "hinkey" seems to be going on there, and I'm having second thoughts about my mower repair guy.  He didn't inspect the drive belt, but he still ruled it out as the problem.  Each time before the belt broke, there was a loss of power taking place.  Although this time it feels a little different to me.  I'm really bad about guessing mechanical problems.  I'm mechanically retarded.  It's just not my thing.  I'm happy some people like mechanical work.  I hate every minute of it, even if I know exactly what is wrong.  I do get a sense of satisfaction after I fix a mechanical problem, but the satisfaction isn't worth wading through the grief of fixing it.

[Johan]

With two previous belts broken, I would say that  your problem lies in the belt drive system somewhere. Look hard the pulleys and their alignment as well as the bearings if the pulleys are so equipped.

[SGOS]

We shall see in a couple of weeks.

[drunkenshoe]

Jeeze APA, fuck the yard!

[stromboli]

Future headline: "Man killed when he gunned riding lawn mower going up a hill and the mower flipped over and crushed him. Sears says warranty does not cover, no replacement".

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Future headline: "Man killed when he gunned riding lawn mower going up a hill and the mower flipped over and crushed him. Sears says warranty does not cover, no replacement".

I take things nice and slow.. If I do punch the accelerator it'll take off pretty fast, but that ain't happening to me.. I might occasionally get depressed and even think of suicide,  but getting crushed and chopped up along the way isn't how I envision my death.. I'll settle though for a 10 ton safe being accidentally dropped from the 40th floor on me and someone 16 blocks away saying,  "Ewww! Is that an eyeball?"