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Man have I had a week, I was getting my mower out and ready to mow and well it finally gave up the ghost after 5 years and however long it's previous owner used it before throwing it away and me picking it up. But the piston finally cooked in it, gas in the oil and oil on the spark plug so it's blowing by.
So I was on the hunt for another mower and found one (Yard Machine)for $20 but the deck was kinda rough and it didn't have a bagger but it mowed so $20 wasn't bad. So today I take the old mower to the scrapyard and I found a third mower. It was in the flood we had here and caked in mud but it was a nearly new Cub Cadet self propelled 6 speed, with bagger and all. I paid $18 (scrap price for a 111lb mower, 5 lbs of it was probably mud and dirt) I took it home, cleaned it up with the garden hose, paid a buddy of mine $10 to clean the carb and it runs great! The drive unit works, speeds all work, cuts and runs great, I am stoked. I looked it up on the Cub Cadet site and new it's a $500+ mower! I got $28 in mine. And my neighbor down the street gave me $20 for the Yard Machine mower so I got it out of my shed :mrgreen:
http://www.cubcadet.com/equipment/Produ ... ogId=14101
So I was on the hunt for another mower and found one (Yard Machine)for $20 but the deck was kinda rough and it didn't have a bagger but it mowed so $20 wasn't bad. So today I take the old mower to the scrapyard and I found a third mower. It was in the flood we had here and caked in mud but it was a nearly new Cub Cadet self propelled 6 speed, with bagger and all. I paid $18 (scrap price for a 111lb mower, 5 lbs of it was probably mud and dirt) I took it home, cleaned it up with the garden hose, paid a buddy of mine $10 to clean the carb and it runs great! The drive unit works, speeds all work, cuts and runs great, I am stoked. I looked it up on the Cub Cadet site and new it's a $500+ mower! I got $28 in mine. And my neighbor down the street gave me $20 for the Yard Machine mower so I got it out of my shed :mrgreen:
http://www.cubcadet.com/equipment/Produ ... ogId=14101
