When I moved into my sisters house about 3 years ago I never knew how she or her 2 prior husbands had kept the yards. Well I learned after surveying the land that they did a poor job. Now I am no lawn expert but I think there should be grass there. This is a huge yard front and back and a small side yard. Green was all the many weeds that lived there and their friends. The house was empty for a year after my sister married the man from hell and moved. So when I moved in the house I had to ask the weeds where the grass was. So the first thing on the agenda was to get me a lawn mower and lots of weed killer. My mother that lived down the street (before she went into the depts of hell) gave me a push mower which was a Snapper mower. They had it for about 20 years and it was just fine for me. I cut the weeds and tried to find grass. Well, my mother didn't want me pushing a mower in this God forsaken heat that we have in the south so she offered to buy me a self propelled mower. I didn't argue of course. I went on my merry way to find me a mower.

I went to Home Quarters first and fell in love with the first mower I saw because it was pretty. It was Kelly green and self-propelled. That is all I knew about mowers and it was under the price that she was going to pay for it. So I said load her up in my car. Well I brought her home and was so happy to not have to push a mower again. I filled her up with fresh gas and put the good oil the she only required in her and started her up and had my walk man on and just gave her a some sort of direction that I wanted her to go. I thinking this is great even that it is hot a hell out side. She did fine for that summer and I took great care to make sure that she was cleaned up after every mow job before I put her in the laundry room.

Well, apparently she had the winter to get a bad attitude because when I pulled her out to do the next summers work she would not cooperate.
I did all the things I was suppose to as far as storing a mower for the winter. I thought. I put gas in her and new oil and primed her and nothing. she would not crank up if I paid her. Finally it happend and I cut the grass but every time I had to cut her off to empty the bag and tried to start her up she refused to cooperate. Well the anger level is pretty high by now. This happened so often untill she decided that she was not going to crank at all. So I call Home Quarters and they said I had to take it to their repair shop which was called Harry's saw shop(?)
I had my friend help me take her there in May of that year one year after I purchased her and did not get her back until July and the only thing wrong was that the gas thank was clogged or something like that. The cost of $12. Geesh. in the mean time I was using my trusty old snapper which could have cared less how old the oil was in him he cranked right up. When I finally got her home and used her again I was cutting the grass and didn't realize that I was bogging down and when I did I found out that the front wheel had fallen off.

I had to hunt in the yard to find the nut and bolt that held the wheel on and after I repeatedly kept putting it on I found my own nut and bolt. It didn't fit but hey if it don't fit make it fit. It did but she still refused to work. Then this year after I her dragged her out for yet another cussing match that I knew was going to happen I was trying to start her yet again and the handle the you have to pull up to start these machines I guess it is the cluch, well it never went back to the proper place so I guess I tore the cluch, who knows all I know is that she was offically dead. She is sitting in my storage shead waiting to be taken to Dr Dave. That is GaGirls husband that can bring any machine back to life. He is good, real good.

So in other word my Yard Machine was a lemon I guess but my snapper took up her slack and is still doing the job.. God bless him old oil and all.

model # 12A-458B372

HP Briggs & Stratton industrail/commercial XTE engine
9-postion height adjuster
front internal self-propelled belt drive
8 x 1.75 bar tread wheels
3-in-1 capable: bags-discharges-mulches-converts without tools
prime and pull starting system for easy one-pull starts..(a joke)




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