remmington
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Post by remmington on Mar 21, 2019 20:42:31 GMT 1
Just had a shock when I ordered parts for - my daughters Honda lawnmower.
Pressed steel deck - spark plug - air filter - tiny bottle of oil.
£147 delivered.
Mower is 2006 - touch or go - if it was worth doing?
If the labour was not being supplied free by Dad - it would not be worth doing.
(would guess I will be paying for the parts as well).
Doubt if anybody can earn a living - servicing and repairing lawnmowers these days?
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Post by spud on Mar 21, 2019 20:52:44 GMT 1
should have got a new un for that price ! shame your not near bristol ive got an etesia you can have for 100 quid cash
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Post by remmington on Mar 21, 2019 20:57:28 GMT 1
should have got a new un for that price ! shame your not near bristol ive got an etesia you can have for 100 quid cash It is a self propelled 18" Honda - engine and grassbox is still good. Etesia is a good make of mower - my Dad has a push one with a Honda engine - which mulches the cuttings - he has had it years. I did think about welding the deck up on the Honda Izy - but it has gone so bad - I would have to remove the engine to make a nice job of it. It is also an odd shape. If the engine and the plastic wheels axles has to come off - I might as well fit a new deck. My Dad always tips his up and hoses the underneath down after use - that is why his has lasted decades... I got a ride on - and a Honda Allen flymo thing for the slopping bit of grass I got. I hate grass cutting and anything to do with it...  |
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Post by spud on Mar 21, 2019 21:09:58 GMT 1
yeah ive got 3 etesias need to sell one really think ive got one without a engine to you could have had that  went mad this year an got myself a battery stihl its a cracking mower i got it for the smaller gardens an ones with steps but i like it that much ive been useing it alot but only get about 50 mins to a battery |
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Post by oli on Apr 11, 2019 23:46:23 GMT 1
Just had a shock when I ordered parts for - my daughters Honda lawnmower. Doubt if anybody can earn a living - servicing and repairing lawnmowers these days? I suspect working on ride-on mowers for customers of a certain age could be fairly lucrative. I'm sure my father paid something outlandish to have his Honda serviced recently. More than I would pay for a service 2 on a car and we're not talking a commercial machine here. Forgot to mention, he takes it away on a special miniature recovery wagon, even though you could heft it into a transit! Oliver |
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Post by remmington on Apr 12, 2019 7:30:44 GMT 1
Just had a shock when I ordered parts for - my daughters Honda lawnmower. Doubt if anybody can earn a living - servicing and repairing lawnmowers these days? I suspect working on ride-on mowers for customers of a certain age could be fairly lucrative. I'm sure my father paid something outlandish to have his Honda serviced recently. More than I would pay for a service 2 on a car and we're not talking a commercial machine here. Forgot to mention, he takes it away on a special miniature recovery wagon, even though you could heft it into a transit! Oliver Did the daughters mower - total parts bill was £170 (I bought and fitted a hose deck wash kit as well). Job took me 3 hrs solid in my workshop - swap deck - service engine - sharpen blade - fit deck wash kit - strip and clean and grease all four wheels up. Did it on a Sunday morning - got my 8yr old grandson to help - gave him a £5 for coming to help fix his Mums lawnmower. Plus we had a Mcdonalds breakfast. I got wrong off my Wife (his Nanny) for getting him covered in Black lithium grease and letting make sparks with an airsander and a flap wheel (using power tools). How things have changed - years ago when I used to go help my Grandad - who was an agricultural fitter - Grandad showed me how to roll fags and would give me a half bottle of light ale with my packed lunch. My Grandad would let you drive his van, tractors and crawlers on a field. Not getting dirty was not an option either. I liked my Grandad a lot - he taught me how to weld - use gas cutting gear - hammers - spanners - lathes - mills - how to drive. |
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Post by oli on Apr 12, 2019 9:41:07 GMT 1
I suspect working on ride-on mowers for customers of a certain age could be fairly lucrative. I'm sure my father paid something outlandish to have his Honda serviced recently. More than I would pay for a service 2 on a car and we're not talking a commercial machine here. Forgot to mention, he takes it away on a special miniature recovery wagon, even though you could heft it into a transit! Oliver Did the daughters mower - total parts bill was £170 (I bought and fitted a hose deck wash kit as well). Job took me 3 hrs solid in my workshop - swap deck - service engine - sharpen blade - fit deck wash kit - strip and clean and grease all four wheels up. Did it on a Sunday morning - got my 8yr old grandson to help - gave him a £5 for coming to help fix his Mums lawnmower. Plus we had a Mcdonalds breakfast. I got wrong off my Wife (his Nanny) for getting him covered in Black lithium grease and letting make sparks with an airsander and a flap wheel (using power tools). How things have changed - years ago when I used to go help my Grandad - who was an agricultural fitter - Grandad showed me how to roll fags and would give me a half bottle of light ale with my packed lunch. My Grandad would let you drive his van, tractors and crawlers on a field. Not getting dirty was not an option either. I liked my Grandad a lot - he taught me how to weld - use gas cutting gear - hammers - spanners - lathes - mills - how to drive. I'm building a Wendy house (man cave) in the garden at the moment and my little one (nearly three) loves playing (and using to be fair) the tools. He loves trying to hammer the nails in with daddy's "big 'ammer" This caused problems when he nearly destroyed another child's plastic carpentry set by giving the delicate plastic 'nails' an absolute...well hammering is the best word as that's exactly what he did! Obviously he was more used to real nails that genuinely need a good thump. I was secretly quite proud... Oli |
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Post by oli on Apr 12, 2019 9:45:08 GMT 1
Did the daughters mower - total parts bill was £170 (I bought and fitted a hose deck wash kit as well). Job took me 3 hrs solid in my workshop - swap deck - service engine - sharpen blade - fit deck wash kit - strip and clean and grease all four wheels up. Did it on a Sunday morning - got my 8yr old grandson to help - gave him a £5 for coming to help fix his Mums lawnmower. Plus we had a Mcdonalds breakfast. I got wrong off my Wife (his Nanny) for getting him covered in Black lithium grease and letting make sparks with an airsander and a flap wheel (using power tools). How things have changed - years ago when I used to go help my Grandad - who was an agricultural fitter - Grandad showed me how to roll fags and would give me a half bottle of light ale with my packed lunch. My Grandad would let you drive his van, tractors and crawlers on a field. Not getting dirty was not an option either. I liked my Grandad a lot - he taught me how to weld - use gas cutting gear - hammers - spanners - lathes - mills - how to drive. I'm building a Wendy house (man cave) in the garden at the moment and my little one (nearly three) loves playing (and using to be fair) the tools. He loves trying to hammer the nails in with daddy's "big 'ammer" This caused problems when he nearly destroyed another child's plastic carpentry set by giving the delicate plastic 'nails' an absolute...well hammering is the best word as that's exactly what he did! Obviously he was more used to real nails that genuinely need a good thump. I was secretly quite proud... Oli I stopped short of letting him play with the lead I was using for the flashing, but as a note on how times change, I remember having hours of fun as a child, playing with some sheet lead one of the builders left behind and my dad just telling me it was probably best to wash my hands before dinner as they were grey! |
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Post by remmington on Apr 12, 2019 10:30:22 GMT 1
I spent hours as a kid with my Grandfather - on his Veg patch - shooting - in his shed - going to work with him - in his workshop.
It was a big part of my early life - he was a very practical man - big influence to how I grew up.
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Post by valhalla on Apr 12, 2019 22:09:33 GMT 1
I spent hours as a kid with my Grandfather - on his Veg patch - shooting - in his shed - going to work with him - in his workshop. It was a big part of my early life - he was a very practical man - big influence to how I grew up. Same here. Mine used to take me out into the countryside to commission lathes into farm workshops, where they had been scrapped-off from big engineering works around the place. The other Grandad was into practical electrical projects in a big way - loads of transformers, motors, etc. etc. He was the reason I got my first really big electrical shock, after I got a bit too close to a live transformer. |
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Post by spud on Apr 17, 2019 20:02:30 GMT 1
I spent hours as a kid with my Grandfather - on his Veg patch - shooting - in his shed - going to work with him - in his workshop. It was a big part of my early life - he was a very practical man - big influence to how I grew up. me to and ive not got kids but im passing all i learned from him on to my neice and nephew my sister dosnt mind them getting dirty |
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went mad this year an got myself a battery stihl its a cracking mower i got it for the smaller gardens an ones with steps but i like it that much ive been useing it alot but only get about 50 mins to a battery 
