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| Just curious.
Is anyone here a fan of Lawn Boy Products. Old or new Lawn Boy |
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| Yup |
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| Yea, there's quite a few of us mixed in with some old 4 stroke fanatics. |
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| I have a 19" steel decked push LB with a 2 stroke. It is about 30 yrs old. I picked it up on Craigslist free stuff 3 yrs ago. It has just needed a carb adjustment and a blade sharpening.It sees about 1/2 hr's use every time I mow to trim around the house. It is a great little mower. The aluminum or magnesium decked 2 stroke LBs are quite collectable. I like mine,because it is old technology, that works well, better in fact than the modern stuff. I don't consider myself an LB fanatic. My main criteria for a mower is that it be free. However, I do see why these mowers have a following. |
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| Sorry for the selfless plug. but for those who are lawn boy fans, we need people for moderators and people who can write tutorials and help others for a lawn boy only community. |
Here is a link that might be useful: LB Hangout
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| That's like walking into a Ford Dealership and talking to customers about coming across the street to your Chevy dealership. What do you think this forum exists for? |
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| I went over there and it's just as bad a bunch of knotheads as it is over here. |
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- Posted by orangedotfever (My Page) on Wed, Mar 3, 10 at 0:24
| Just as bad but not as many. LOL |
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| Well, Yukkel, if you will behave and be nice, and not try to impress us with how smart ya are--we'll welcome you into this forum, and we'll answer any questions you post, to the best of our ability! There is an abundance of folks here who love Lawn boys, and they will answer your questions. As for me?? I junk every one i get! |
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| Well I am not trying to impress anything with how much i know. I have wanted to get a forum like that for awhile. I was never implying there was anything wrong with this forum. I have been reading this forum for awhile. I just always wanted to run a forum of my own. |
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| As I go about shopping for a cordless lawn mower (no fumes if I store indoors, no neighborhood exhaust outdoors), I am reminded of how stagnant--and even retrograde--gasoline lawn mower design has become. i.e. when was the last time you saw a push mower, of any price range, with a HOSE ATTACHMENT on it, for cleaning the blade and underside of the housing with the mower running? I was thinking back to a Lawn-Boy my parents had in the late 1960s. It was old then, so probably an early 60s design, but very "aerospace" and advanced in many ways. Instead of all the klugey machinery for self-propulsion (and even ELECTRIC START, lol) that was coming into vogue even back then (even on some LBs), on this particular model, Lawn-Boy went the other way (I'm guessing), and said "let's make a mower that is so LIGHTWEIGHT it won't NEED to be self-propelled". Features I recall: >LIGHTWEIGHT *MAGnesium* deck/housing, very "sculpted" in a form-follows-function obvious "air-channel" sorta way; >HOSE fitting on top of said deck for cleaning blade and deck underside WITH ENGINE RUNNING, of course, for maximum effect; >LIGHTWEIGHT aluminum-block 2-stroke engine designed to be EXTREMELY USER-SERVICEABLE; > If the pull-cord rewind mechanism broke, it was easily removed, and the flywheel still had a purpose-built notched pulley you could hand-wrap a cord around... UNlike some Sears crap I've seen of late... GRRRrrr... victim of bean-counters... or lawyers... or both. The whole thing (exc. engine hard parts) was (IIRC) coated in a bronze semi-metallic paint, vs. the green you always see on Lawn-Boys. AND... IT HAD THE BEST USER/SERVICE MANUAL ON THE PLANET! I was 10 or 11 years old and that fine document clearly explained 2-cycle engine operation, and guided me to a successful reed valve replacement! I was ten feet tall! Hair immediately sprouted on my pre-pubescent naughty bits, LOL! And that thing ran like a DEMON!... easily devouring the tough St. Augustine grass common in So-Fla. I forget what happened to that fine beast, but every mower (4-strokers) after that seemed heavy and lame by comparison. :( |
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| Yep Had a 2-Stroke Lawnboy back in the Mid Eightys Great Little Mower . Used it hard weed whacking & bushwhacking Took a real kicking and kept coming back for more . Finally the Crank Seal let go and I retired the Ole Girl . Thought about rebuilding it but the Brother In Law had eyes for the Chassis and put a 4-Cycle LB Engine on it and ran it for another 5 yrs lol . |
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