[AT] Allis Chalmers B-1 lawn tractor

[Gilbert Schwartz]

I've seen those engines labled with the different quality lables and
wondered if there was really much internal difference.  I thought that maybe
the cheaper ones were built to live about as long as the company expected
the fuel to be kept clean or the oil to last. I've seen too many of them
filled out of used coke bottles and empty beer cans by people who don't know
the difference between two and four stroke. It sure makes the life
expectancy go down which is a major concern for the commercial user. Gil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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> The last I knew, Gil, the small engine manufacturers were still building
> three different qualities of engines.  You have to get into the
> "professional" or "commercial" models of mowers to get an engine that
> will last any length of time.  There are major differences in the
> bearings.
>
> Larry
>
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> Schwartz
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>
> Cecil; You're right about the "listed" or "advertised" or "labeled"
> horsepower now days, and that includes on electric motors. There's no
> way of
> knowing what you're really getting. I know that most walk behind mowers
> do
> pretty good now compared to those of long ago. Then again they now have
> about twice the labeled horsepower. I'm sure experience has helped in
> how to
> get rid of the cut product and how to build a quick governor. Maybe
> though
> the engine quality is better, at least the builders think so.
> Gil
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
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> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 6:24 AM
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>
>
> > >     I also know that I have a 7 h.p., 21inch, walk behind lawn
> mower, I
> know
> > > what it pulls like, and a 17 h.p. 42inch, ha. That 17 wouldn't begin
> to
> pull
> > > a 60 inch. At least it wouldn't cutting anything. I guess it's just
> a
> matter
> > > of  machines being different. Gil
> >
> >
> >
> > There sure is a difference between "real" horsepower and the
> > signs they put on these new mowing machines to get them to sell, isn't
> > there, Gil?  grins  It's too bad in a way there wasn't a law that
> would
> > define horespower some other way so you knew what you were really
> getting.
> >
> > This Kubota rototiller I bought yesterday weighs more than most
> > garden/lawn tractors do with their mowers on them. It's not something
> > that would even fit on those little tractors with the small 3 points.
> I
> > should have taken the model number off it but that can with until
> tonight
> > when I pick it up. I'll just bet it gives the D-12 a nice load.
> >
> > Cecil
> > -- 
> > The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> > what you said.
> >
> > Cecil E Monson
> > Lucille Hand-Monson
> > Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
> >
> > Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
> >
> > Free advice
> >
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