[TheForge] Mower vs boot scraper

[Jeff Wilson]

Check the fly wheel key.  If the key, which is "soft", let the flywheel 
rotate on the shaft the timing is off.
Jeff in Poulsbo
Who has hit more that one big rock and had to fix the mower.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 1:01 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Mower vs boot scraper


>I was trimming around the shop yesterday.  When I came to the door my wife
> had set her goat grain bucket in the way as she does when she wants me to
> fill it.  Well I tried to move the bucket with one hand while holding on 
> to
> the mower with the other. My attention was brought back to the mower when 
> I
> heard it hit the boot scraper and stop cold. I tried to restart it but it
> would hardly turn over. When I checked it this morning the crank was bent.
> I straightened it with a bucking bar and sledge hammer. It turns free now
> but when it fires makes a funny noise.
>
> It made a huge gash in the mild steel boot scraper, with hardly a nick in
> the blade, but I think the mower is done. I got the mower in 87 when we
> moved to St. Louis, so it had a good run. It hasn't had much use since we
> moved to the farm in 98, most of the mowing is done on the rider. Pretty
> good service from a 3.5 hp brigs.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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