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I'm sure it depends a lot on how well they were maintained, what kind of conditions they were used in, and if they saw a lot of hard use. We had a Marion dragline back in the 60s and 70s with a 3-71 Detroit Diesel for power, and we finally had to overhaul it at ~22,000 hours because it wouldn't...

Power washed the BX and the JD today, before it gets evil hot for the next 5 or 6 days. The deck is next on the schedule to get power washed.

I remember them all but 12. Never haf peashooters, but did have slingshots, bb guns and pellet guns.

In 1981 my 1950 model decided she didn't need me any more, but did take half my money. Never bought another one. Had a few test drives though.

I cut out one side with the plasma cutter.

This is what I made for my BX FEL. Some 1.5" square tubing, a large washer and a 1.5" shaft collar.

Six turnin' and four burnin'.

In the eight years I've had my BX, I've never taken the FEl off. It comes in handy when mowing and stopping to trim low hanging branches. Cut them up, toss themin the bucket, and next trip past the brush pile dump them off.

Oh gee, you were there on show girl night. I've seen stuff that I would have taken a picture of, but I was afraid it would burn out the camera sensor.

Just because media reports don't agree with your world view, doesn't mean it isn't true. Think about that.

The rod I used is Grade 5, from McMaster-Carr. Not sure what rating the bolts are, I didn't really look at them, but since they are SAE bolts, I doubt they have a metric rating. After 2 hours of mowing the lawn Saturday, I rechecked the torque on the nuts, and they were still right at 70 ft lbs...

I haven't had to take wheels off my BX2230 very often, but when I did, I always cursed the damn wheel bolts. They are a real PIA to get back on, even after I made a couple of alignment studs. A while back, I replaced the front wheel bolts with 7/16"-20 studs and nuts, and the one time I have had...

I replaced the seals on the curl cylinder on my LA211 a couple of years ago. The only difficult part was getting the end cap off, it requires a spanner tool to unscrew it from the end of the cylinder barrel. The parts aren't that expensive and should be available from Messicks. The only other...

I have a couple of them, a 7" and a 10". I like them for certain things because they have smooth jaws instead of grooved jaws, for gripping things you don't want to mar up. Excellent gripping power too. I have several Knipex pliers and side cutters and they are excellent quality.

Don't see too many wheels loaded on that trailer. :confused:

I had a Troy-Bilt 4 stroke weed eater for 10 years or so, always ran the fuel dry in the fall and checked the plug so it was ready for spring. It always started after a few pulls and ran great. A couple of years ago in the spring, I gassed it up to do some trimming and it refused to start...

Thant's good to hear. The air filter on the 2230s is a bad design, seems prone to breakage from engine vibrations.

If that was my place, there'd be three cases of lead poisoning shortly thereafter.

Mowing the grass is my summertime mental therapy. Get my headset on, listen to some blues on the local station and git'er done.

Sounds pretty much like my 2230. Those little three cylinder engines do shake and rattle a lot at low idle speeds, I rarely idle mine below 1400 rpm. Also I see the air filter vibrating quite a bit, check the mount at the fuel pump to make sure it isn't loose or broken. That's a common problem...