well it dint say so on the can!!!!!!

glennster

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• Aug 7, 2010

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so i have this 20 year old lawn boy 2 cycle self propelled mower. dang nice little walk behind, i can pick it up easy and toss it in the back of the truck, all i ever put in it was an ignition module and a couple blades, couple spark plugs in 20 years. the wife had to have an electric start personal pace walk behind for trimming. too heavy and hard to maneuver. all my small gas cans if premix are written 20-1,32-1, 40-1 premix in big letters. get home , my trimming mower is parked under a tree in the yard. wife says....it was banging when i was cutting. i pulled the spark plug and tried to turn the blade. kinda sounded like stepping on corn flakes. asked.....did you put premix in the mower like it says on the gas cap???? i used that can she says.......pointing to one that just says GASOLINE. i inform her that the motor on MY mower is toast. asked why she put straight gas in the lawn boy??? well, it didnt say it wasnt pre mix on the can...i'm still trying to figure out what that means.....grrrrrrrrrrr.

 

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camju

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

I hear ya. sometimes it would be better they never do anything when your gone.

 

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bodid1998

Member

• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

Hey Glennster I just bought a new Gravely zero turn last month and my wife wanted to mow at first it was just too danged funny !!!But after the 52" deck ate a roll of barbed wire beside shop now not so funny !!!

Dustin Il

 

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S.Crum

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

Not a problem! 22 year old son YES 22 YEARS OLD!!! filled my John Deere 112 with diesel fuel from a can labled 'Diesel Fuel'. Told him if he didn't want to mow, go stick his face back in his video game and never touch my equipment again! He thought that was a fair deal, until he wanted to use my truck.

 

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Wesley Stephens

Member

• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

I hate to hear your Lawn Boy got messed up. I have one that I really like. It is a beast of a mower.

 

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Fullthrottle

Member

• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

I filled my chainsaw with antifreeze one time. Mixed gas in a old jug and didn't mark it. Grabbed the wrong one an filled it up. Lucky I spilled some and realized what I'd done before I tried to run it. Filled my diesel pickup with unleaded once too. More interested in pretty girl puttn gas in her car than what the pump said. Such is life ;-)

 

560farm

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NEIL

• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

Glennster I sent you a response to your question over on the farmall section, I think on the second page. I know you post here and over there also.
Brad

 

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Inno

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

Wasn't it you who had a rock chucked through your window by your wife on a riding mower or was that someone else? If so it might be cheaper just to hire someone to cut your grass! :lol:

 

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BCnT

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

not sure where youre at but i got 3 Lawn Boys i'll give you if you come gettem...2 of em are 30 years old at least and one is older than i am and been in a box as long as i can remember...my dad bent the crankshaft on the oldest one and the other 2 havent been run in 20+ years...all in the barn under cover...they ran when parked
i'm in Sheridan,Tx.

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

Is she a good cook? Then you must say it was your fault ! lol

 

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glennster

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

yup, that was her that took my winder out!! if there were a couple more days in a week, i could prolly get everything done myself!!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

22 year old still living in "Moms house" EH? Kick the lazy bugger out!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

(quoted from post at 19:09:13 08/07/10) i'm still trying to figure out what that means.....grrrrrrrrrrr.

Click to expand...

Doesn't matter.
Just say "I Love You" and go to Hooters for a beer and burger. Pick up your new lawnmower on the way home.

There are worse things in life.

Dave

 

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Keith Molden

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

I want you guys to know that I really appreciate your posts. It makes me feel alot better knowing I'm not alone when it comes to dumb things happening to me & believe me they do. ALL TOO OFTEN. Keith

 

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S.Crum

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

College kid home on break. Yup one of tomorrow's leaders.

 

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tractorhead

Member

• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

You just gotta take better care of your sweet gal.It's a woman thing. Have your mowers all gased up and ready for her. Ifin she willing to help around the yard, good for her, but you gotta help her around anything mechinal

 

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IOWA NORTHEAST

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

My neighbor lady did not use premix on a weed wacker for two mowings. She had it backwards in here mind. Best I can explain is the gas can must not have been very empty when she filled it with straight gas. That was five plus years ago, and I still have to wonder?

 

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MeanGene1

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• Aug 8, 2010

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Just brought back something I hadn't thought about in many years- got home from work one day, and the girlfriend says with a smile, hey, I took all the laundry to the laundromat today- wow, thanks honey, let me give you some money. No need says she, I used the change from the top drawer in your dresser. Froze me for a second, went to check, sure enough, she had taken my collection of '64 silver Kennedy half-dollars and put them through the change machine at the laundromat to get quarters and dimes for the machines.... She was thinking ahead though, she didn't change just enough to get by, she changed them all so she could save the quarters & dimes for next time...
Gawd she was gorgeous, though, redhead, 38DD, extremely "fiesty" if you know what I mean-
At least I caught the bag with all my pink slips in it sitting in the garbage can after she "cleaned house", my 406 Galaxie, 69 Mach1...
Did I mention 38DD, redhead, fiesty...

 

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TomH in PA

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

"it didnt say it wasnt pre mix on the can...i'm still trying to figure out what that means"

I think that means you need a new lawnmower.

 

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IndianaRed

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

I think that means you get a new, (old), tractor now.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

It can get confusing. I bought a new Stihl "combo" rig- One piece is the engine and half the shaft, the other piece is the other half the shaft and the "implement" on the bottom. You can get about a dozen implements. Its pretty slick.

Its a 4 stroke, but takes mixed gas and oil. I put straight gas in one time (well, it is a 4 stroke, oil would foul the plug, right?) Just got this little nagging thought as I started it, so shut it down and went to check the manual.

No harm done- but close.

 

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Inno

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

My wife just recently decided to try the riding mower so she could free up some time for me so I could finish putting the laminate flooring in the bedroom. We tore up the carpet because of allergies.
So the worst thing she's done (so far) is she cut through one of the wires to my satellite dish (another hobby of mine). No biggie, just spliced it and it's all good now. Probably my fault as it should be in a conduit anyways.
Other than that she's very capable and even ran the string trimmer and push mower to finish up. Did a really nice job. Didn't do down in the ditches but I wouldn't want her to, they're pretty steep.

 

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Jiles

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• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

Several years ago, I had a practically new self propelled, electric start lawn mower. I decided it needed an oil change, drained the oil and replaced the drain plug.
I get a phone call that a friend has died, my wife comes out and askes if the mower is gassed up and I say yes.
I'me still on the phone and she makes two rounds of the yard and I remember. I got off the phone but its too late, the engine locks up.
I just wish she had asked me if I was finished with the service----but she didn't know I was servicing the mower :!:

 

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Mark-Mi

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Location

S.E. Mi.

• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

Neighbor gave me a Lawn Boy about 15 years ago. Said he loaned it to the BIL who ran straight gas in it and the motor was shot. I shot a little oil in it worked the blade back and forth took a compression check. Not to bad. Mixed up some gas, took right off.
Wanted to give it back, but the neighbor said no"I ain't no Indian giver".
I still mow my ditch bank in front of the house with it.
My BIL mixed gas for his string trimmer with Stabil thinking it was 2 stroke oil. The trimmer got hot and quit 3 times. Each time it quit he would let it cool and it would run again. Then he figured it out. Trimmer still runs today. Mark

 

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JMOR

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Location

TX

• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

you know that little toe space under the kitchen sink? made just to fit women's feet. keep 'em there.

 

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glennster

Well-known Member

• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

bc, if they are lawn boy silver series 4.5 hp two strokes,self propelled conventional with the mulching hood, shoot me an e-mail !!!! i'm interested!!

 

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Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Aug 8, 2010

• #1

Get a reel type mower for her to use, no fuel nessesary!

Tom

 

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JML755

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• Aug 9, 2010

• #1

glennster,
After convincing my wife that she should learn to use the "new" (1977 Ford 3600) tractor for brush hogging, I told her to just cut the wide open meadow I had cut a couple of weeks earlier to get used to it. As I watched from a distance she headed off into the 4 ft tall stuff at the edge that I had left uncut because of the fallen trees I had cut up a while back and hadn't cleaned up yet. Now you could see the big pieces laying all around (if you were looking where you were going :wink: ) but she just headed off into it. Kept on going even with the tractor bouncing over the wood, brush hog making a terrible clatter. I grit my teeth and didn't say a word as I knew if I did open my mouth, it would ruin BOTH of our days.

Later that day, she was helping me unload broken concrete (BIG pieces) from the pickup to use as rip-rap around a culvert. I was standing in the ditch to place them and told her to just drop them over the side of the bed. Well she TOSSED THEM and they proceeded to roll down the bank. As I dodged a couple of 20-30 pounders, I just said, "Whoa, let me get out of the ditch". I then showed her how to do it. I find that I'm mellowing in my old age and trying to be more tolerant of those who may not know how to do something the way I want. I figure if I didn't explain it right, I can't complain.

 

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CLTX

Member

• Aug 9, 2010

• #1

Amen!