The Great Big Lawnmower Thread

If you have 6 acres of grass to cut, thats a large field. You'll need a commercial mower, at least 1.5m/60" like the Toro Ground master, or a small farm tractor with a rotary mowing bar or a towed topper if its rough and high. You'll need about €15k also. With that much grpund the small tractor is a very useful asset. Unless you meant .6 of an acre.

Corded electric mower?

Still not clear. 0.6 of an acre, or one 6th of an acre? 0.6 is manageable with any decent size walk behind mower, but if its overgrown the first cut will be difficult. A mower with a high cut setting, and only take a half width at a time will get through it. If it's really overgrown you might need to hire a powerful weedeater/strimmer or a brush cutter to get it down to ground level, then mow from then on. Buying a trimmer to cut a large area regularly is only an option if the ground underneath is too rough for a wheeled mower, such as banks, ditches, overgrown landfill and earth heaps, often left after construction work.

Any recommendations for somebody/company, in the Limerick/Nenagh area, who repair corroded ride on lawnmower decks?

I spent a few k with them and they were fine delivery on a pallet iirc took about 4 working days.

Clean under the deck regularly and at end of season with a wire brush, give it a coat of rustins or any rust primer paint. It will last forever. And change the oil yourself. If opening the plug underneath puts you off, just open the oil filler cap/dipstick and pour the old (warmed up) oil out through the filler by tipping the mower over (let it run out of petrol first). No disrespect to mower shops, but you might pay three quarters of the mower price for labour, oil, an unnecessary spark plug, and a replacement air filter which is probably only a washable sponge type. As long as you don't clatter the blade off stones (well, not too much), it's not going to need removal and sharpening/balancing. See above a few posts, @The Continental Op knocks the shyte out of his until it drops.

How long did delivery take? I’m planning on getting the Legacy off them.

I ordered it on the 2nd of may, it was delivered on the bank holiday Monday 6th which I was delighted with. Mower delivered assembled ready for use.

great so far.

Went for one of these in the end. Got it from stakelums for 500 delivered but it may have been the last one.

Did almost the full very overgrown 1/3 acre on a single tank, immensely powerful, the self drive did indeed drag me along. Only ran the highest setting as there's a lot of drying out still required. Starts first time as well. Plastic deck vs 2 year warranty on a Honda won out for me.

I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so

I sat down and had a cold beer.

The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.

My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing,

and I said, "Nothing."

The reason I said "nothing" instead of saying "just thinking" is because she then would have asked, "About what?"

At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.

Finally I pondered an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?

Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?

Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question.

Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn't really know, here is the reason for my conclusion:

A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "It might be nice to have another child."

But you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts."

I rest my case.

Time for another beer. Then maybe a nap.

Happy Gardening

same mower as the woodies pro lawn one just different colour

Anybody any suggestions for best ride on mulcher mower. 1acre site so stroring grass clippings is becoming a pain. Anybody any experience of this

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Father has ride on with bag. What we have been using. Just wondering what people think is best mulcher ride on.

It's solid but there are probably still a couple of fit and finish issues which could be down to stakelums repackaging it before shipping. The main drive handle was not in its socket, and evidence of scraping the paint where it had come out. One of the hubcaps was off and didn't feel particularly ready to get back in.

Oddest part is that there's an enormous gap at the top of the deck showing the motor housing. That's aluminium but still doesn't make a lot of sense to me when it would be cleaner to have the whole thing covered.

Only to say that yer wan in the photo is a midget, to make the little mower look huge.

With any, you have decent real store warranty. The Co-Op one is an 18" self propelled, the Screwfix a smaller 16". Either can be maneuvered like a push mower, you just let go of the drive bar lever. The 18" push Legacy will keep you fit in a decent sized rural garden, but a good choice for a suburban one. There's a 10% discount on your first co-op purchase when you sign up, the offer page intermittently pops up when you open the web page, though it can not appear if you dismiss it. That would make the Webb €270, pretty good value for an established brand, and sold by a reliable retailer.

Castelgarden TCR102 Hydro 2005

Today my mower kept cutting out while I was mowing. High pitched whistle (like the basket full noise, but continuous), mower stalls, whistle fades over about 5 seconds (stops immediately when ignition is turned off, but if I turn it back on within the 5 seconds it continues its fade). I can then restart the mower.

Grass was a bit wet and I thought there may be some connection as it seemed to be happening whenever the deck got clogged up (though its never happened before), but once or twice it happened immediately after I had cleared the deck & chute, so I think that ruled that theory out.

Mostly happened when blades were engaged, but did happen at least once when I was driving without blades on.

Any ideas what I should be looking for?

Thanks

Battery is 13v when engine is off, 14.25V when idling, so I guess the confirms it is charging

Tightened batter terminal connections (though they were fairly tight anyway), buzzed with multimeter between negative terminal and chassis under engine (after I scraped off all the muck), and ensured all connectors into the PCB were pushed home. Anything else to check?

Next time I mow I'll see if the issue is gone - if it isn't then should I look at replacing the PCB?

Its a possibility, there's one post here going back a bit from someone with similar issues, I remember looking up the wiring diagrams and they were next to useless for the TC102. One thing I remember on my own was what looked like a random wire going to chassis on the engine, a spade connector. It seemed to be a common ground for the various interlocks, if it got loose and popped off, you could dismount and the blade would still run, or remove the bag and the same. The buzzer/beeper is also associated with leaving the ignition on, say you dismount and the engine cuts because the blade is engaged in a manual clutch machine. The ignition is still on, and will sound the beeper after a time. You could try checking the continuity of all interlocks back to the board, fairly tedious. A shop will probably just try a new board and if it works, that's the cure. A crack on the print, a loose connection or a dry solder joint all possibilities. So much vibration, 19 years worth!

The sounds you describe, sound like the starter motor pinion gear failing to engage with the engine ring gear. The pinion could be sticking (it pops up to engage with the ring gear as result of the spinning motion of the motor). The pinion gear may be damaged and stripped, or there may be a poor 12v connection from the battery to the solenoid, or from the solenoid to the motor. A quick test is to use car jump lead from battery positive straight to the starter 12v in terminal, a thickish cable held by a nut on a terminal post. If this turns the engine over, but the key doesn't, you have a connection problem. The clicking sound is very like a sticky solenoid, which is failing to close the heavy amperage contact from battery to starter motor. If you have clear view of the solenoid 12v battery in and out contacts, check that these are tight, and give all the connections on the solenoid a firm wiggle in case they have got tarnished or corroded slightly.

Sounds OK to me the safety issue is if you leave it bypassed when you go back to boxing off grass. Normally all you need a small metal mending plate and a self tapping screw. Just screw the plate on so it holds the switch closed.

I have a Stihl 5112z ride on and like the OP said it's a lot easier to manoeuvre when mulching without the grassbox attached. So I drilled two small holes behind the lever which the grassbox presses down and cable tied it down.

However , I find mulching with this machine a bit of a let down, probably because, as Deezel said, you really need mulching blades. Using a mulching plug with ordinary blades just doesn't work as well. I have found that the only way to avoid lines of clippings being left behind is to to cut so soon again that it can actually be difficult to tell what parts you have mown already.