I was at a local landscape equipment dealer and they had battery powered lawn mowers. One line of these mowers had a feature similar to the indoor vacuum Roomba- that would cut the grass unattended.
My dad had a mower that cut the lawn without him attending to it. It was called Son.
Sure. ok.
I use DeWalt because much of my tool inventory is DeWalt and or Bosch.
That was interesting.
I have a small fleet of vintage Lawn-Boys, and wouldn't trade them for anything. Except for maybe more Lawn-Boys.
The old Lawn Boy mowers were tanks, especially the two strokes. Unfortunately the new ones are just rebranded low end Toros.
You got that right, Larry... Nothing like the sound and smells of a Kubota!! Although, in winter when I have the cab on, I sometimes get a little too much exhaust. When the wind hits just right it blows the exhaust right up inside from under the tractor. And of course this seems to happen right when you have a good roll of snow going and the little 3 banger is doing some actual work, making all the exhaust it canSon in law has those robot mowers like Roombas. Not this kid. Gimme some nice diesel fumes and the rattle of my Kubota. I LOVE it. Though I have switched all my other equipment to battery. I have DeWalt trimmer, blower, pole chain saw. All work great. I still have my little Honda walk behind as well. That little thing even has a miniature hydrostatic transmission. Amazing little machine.
I don't believe in those things of not changing oil. That's just dumb to me. When that Honda mower dies I will go to a battery one. Because I don't use it enough to justify a gas engined one. I only use it as a backup or for little trimming where it's hard to maneuver a 60" deck 1 ton machine
. I'm thinking of taking out the downward turned pipe and putting on a little stack like the older ones had. Those blow the exhaust away from the operator - makes more sense to me.
Nice machine. Bigger than mine. If you look at my posts from last spring you can see all the work I did on it. Did a nice cosmetic resto on it. Oddly back when i had gasoline tractors (my old Allis Chalmers B series), then my Queen Mary sized Simplicity Sovereign, the little Honda 4514 I has last. When I would come in the house I smelled terribly of gasoline exhaust fumes. But no such malady from the Kubota. Would like to have a smaller deck. 60" is over kill, but it's how it came LOLYou got that right, Larry... Nothing like the sound and smells of a Kubota!! Although, in winter when I have the cab on, I sometimes get a little too much exhaust. When the wind hits just right it blows the exhaust right up inside from under the tractor. And of course this seems to happen right when you have a good roll of snow going and the little 3 banger is doing some actual work, making all the exhaust it can
I purposely got the 54 inch deck because my yard was too lumpy for the 60. Even the 54 "shaves" the lumps down sometimes. I use the Honda for the front and side yards because it has a bag and makes it look nice. The Kubota does the heavier stuff out back.
I'd be lost without my little Kubota. She plows the yard (snow), cuts the heavy weeds, and carries (or drags) all the heavy stuff for me. I have no idea *how* I made it so far in life without this fabulous machine. A couple of pictures... One with cab-on (moving the new washing machine) and one with cab-off moving a pretty heavy chunk of iron (antique air compressor crankcase). In the cab-off photo you can see the little heater I installed on the transmission tunnel.
The portable generator industry for residential use is essentially based on the Honda small gas engine and hundreds of knockoffs.
Somewhat interesting story, I bought a Generac pressure washer some years back partly because it was claimed to be Made in USA. After using it and finding it to be satisfactory I left a positive review for it only noting that the engine on it was clearly Chinese. I never could find the review that I left. Fast forward a few years to firing it up for the first time one spring to discover that the pump housing had cracked (my own fault due to improper winter storage) and decided to replace the pump rather than buying a new unit. I then discovered that the pump was made by an Italian company and also not USA based. The only other part of the machine that possibly was made here is the cart, which is definitely the crappiest part of the whole thing. I still like the pressure washer, but Generac's claim of it being made in the USA really kind of irritated me after that.
Saw it on their web site a while back, also directly on their own engines. "precision made in our own Chinese plants".
