Let's ban petrol lawn mowers!

**tri boy** · 8th May 2013, 19:50

I can't wait till the trees at chez tri boys lose enough leaves so pruning can start

Chainsaw/chipper and mulcher at 8.30 on Sunday morning

The farmers cows hate being woken up

**kiwi cowboy** · 23rd July 2013, 17:19

Originally Posted by scumdog

Cry me a river sunshine - YOU made the little larrikins didn't ya???

Well we hope it was him????.

**240** · 23rd July 2013, 18:03

Originally Posted by dangerous

Shit, ya can still buy a stroker... cool thought the PC brigade woulda stomped that by now... best mower I ever had was a Iron Horse (who remembers them?) mine was old in the early 90's exhaust went through the base above the blade, was a 2 piece half moon muffler, only the bottom half was missing on mine and it only had one speed... FARKING LOUD, suck on that OPer LOL, and tell ya what anything in its way was mauled.

Sure can mate most contractors buy victa 2 strokes.

**nallac** · 23rd July 2013, 19:44

Originally Posted by 240

Sure can mate most contractors buy victa 2 strokes.

Victas???? Almost all the contractors round here use Hondas..... except me i still run the good old Suzuki powered Rovers.

**awa355** · 24th July 2013, 23:22

A few years ago, the wife decided we were both going to lose some weight and get fitter. She went out and bought a handmower. We sold it a year later in a garage sale. Still had the black paint on the blades.

The earliest motor mower I can remember dad having was a yellow and gray BMW mower back in the 50's. Had the wind on rope start. Cant remember what BMW stood for, but it sure wasn't associated with sophisticated technology. No catcher on it. With dad mowing, one of us kids had to rake the grass into mounds, then onto the wheelbarrow and over to the A2 Bedford truck.

**T.W.R** · 24th July 2013, 23:52

MTD ride-on 42" with a 15hp boxxer twin with straight pipes & no baffle box

awesome @ 8am on saturday morning

33cc brush cutter with rotted out baffle plate spinning it up @22000rpm

the neighbours love that

**dangerous** · 25th July 2013, 07:04

Originally Posted by T.W.R

MTD ride-on 42" with a 15hp boxxer twin with straight pipes & no baffle box

awesome @ 8am on saturday morning

cool... whats a boxxer? mines a brigs V2 and Id love straight pipes

**unstuck** · 25th July 2013, 07:37

My mower is a red one that the wife pushes. Must have a look at the brand next time im in the garden shed.

**Ocean1** · 25th July 2013, 08:29

Originally Posted by dangerous

cool... whats a boxxer? mines a brigs V2 and Id love straight pipes

Aye, mine's a Kawasaki V twin.

No straight pipes.

Does have a mini-bar though.

**T.W.R** · 25th July 2013, 09:31

Originally Posted by dangerous

cool... whats a boxxer? mines a brigs V2 and Id love straight pipes

lol boxxer twin

same layout as a BMW.....you know those jerry built gizmos

The motor was a Briggs & Stratton

pipes were about 200mm long, 20mm dia

You've seen the beastie in the past anyhow

up at Charing Cross...mowed that whole property with it even topped out the hay paddocks...damn glad it had a tinny holder for a brew on it....used to get a few odd looks mowing the roadside along Bealey Rd having beer at the same time

Drink driving lol

**dangerous** · 25th July 2013, 17:58

Originally Posted by T.W.R

lol boxxer twin

same layout as a BMW.....you know those jerry built gizmos

The motor was a Briggs & Stratton

pipes were about 200mm long, 20mm dia

You've seen the beastie in the past anyhow

up at Charing Cross...mowed that whole property with it even topped out the hay paddocks...damn glad it had a tinny holder for a brew on it....used to get a few odd looks mowing the roadside along Bealey Rd having beer at the same time

Drink driving lol

ahh yeah, didet know brigs did a flat twin

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Aye, mine's a Kawasaki V twin.
No straight pipes.
Does have a mini-bar though.

My beer holder is flored aye, I find it shakes the shit out of the can and I loose more than I drink... what to do?

Hey look, all this big bore talk has me thinking, as its non mowing season and I think the mowers out of its warantee its time to use the off cut from my truck... what ya s reckon out the bottom where the muffler is or go the tractor tradition way through the hood?

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**unstuck** · 25th July 2013, 18:07

Originally Posted by dangerous

ahh yeah, didet know brigs did a flat twin

My beer holder is flored aye, I find it shakes the shit out of the can and I loose more than I drink... what to do?

Hey look, all this big bore talk has me thinking, as its non mowing season and I think the mowers out of its warantee its time to use the off cut from my truck... what ya s reckon out the bottom where the muffler is or go the tractor tradition way through the hood?

Unless you get off on the fumes from a labouring engine, I would face it down towards the ground.

**dangerous** · 25th July 2013, 18:40

Originally Posted by unstuck

Unless you get off on the fumes from a labouring engine, I would face it down towards the ground.

what if I run it on avgas and add a tad a castor?

**unstuck** · 25th July 2013, 18:44

Originally Posted by dangerous

what if I run it on avgas and add a tad a castor?

In that case it would need to be coming through the bonnet.

**T.W.R** · 25th July 2013, 18:55

Originally Posted by dangerous

ahh yeah, didet know brigs did a flat twin

My beer holder is flored aye, I find it shakes the shit out of the can and I loose more than I drink... what to do?

Hey look, all this big bore talk has me thinking, as its non mowing season and I think the mowers out of its warantee its time to use the off cut from my truck... what ya s reckon out the bottom where the muffler is or go the tractor tradition way through the hood?

Get a fat neoprene holder.... chunker version of the ones Dale was palming off to peeps with Southern rider logo on them

the one the MTD was on the guard never had a problem with getting the turps shaken up.... or just drink the stuff faster

or a strategically located chilly bin for drive-by pick ups

What ya done to the truck?

Put the pipes out the side like a decent V8 with lake pipes