[AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake..... Wrong

Wed Jun 9 11:58:11 PDT 2021

String trimmers and chainsaws are a whole different animal... Evil lurks
within them...  :-)
I always said that I would never do it but for the last few years I have
been using canned premix fuel from Rural King  for them. Yes it is pretty
costly but works perfectly and if you compare its cost per gallon to the
cost per gallon of Starbucks coffee the gas is almost free.  :-)
I didn't cut a lot of firewood this last winter due to health issues but I
plan to this year. Still even with buying most of my wood our heating cost
only averaged a tiny bit over $200 a month in the 5 cold months using all
wood in very cold weather and the heat pump on mild days. We heat 4,000 sq.
ft. I love our wood furnace with blower forced combustion air. You could
use one as a forge in a blacksmith shop.
We have been burning mostly Emerald Ash Borer victims. I have hundreds of
them in all sizes.
On a tractor note we find that a smallish trailer behind the little Case
VAC is about as much as we want to cut without stopping for a while to rest
a bit. The trailer we use most is made from the rear end of a compact Ford
pick-up. I have gotten really good at resting.  :-)

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On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 12:40 PM magreer67 <magreer67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those small engines like string trimmers and chainsaws, I will only
> use REC90 gas. It is 90 octane , NO alcohol fuel and it has pretty much
> eliminated starting problems with these tools. It is about a dollar a
> gallon more than the garbage regular gas available today but well worth it.
> Mark Greer
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ken Knierim <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
> Date: 6/8/21 5:55 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake..... Wrong
>
> Cecil,
>     I've had marginally good luck finding Shindaiwa parts on Amazon.
> String trimmers will drive you to insanity though; always been that way.
> Back when WD-40 was worth a crap (and I was a small engine guy for a lawn
> service going through college) we used that as starting fluid for 2-strokes
> and it was pretty decent.
> More recently I had an old Echo that was getting the best of me and I just
> coupled a cordless drill on the crankshaft because I got tired of pulling
> the rope. Spun it over awhile until I got it to pop and run. It had spark
> but fuel was the problem. It ran long enough to realize it wasn't going to
> be hand-startable and it finally got replaced; the new carb and plug didn't
> help and I got tired of fighting with a 30 year old two stroke.
> My neighbor uses racing fuel so it doesn't go bad; he recently fired up
> his dirt bike (KTM?) that had been sitting for 2 years and it lit right
> off. He never even changed the fuel out; he just took it to the desert and
> ran the hell out of it. Can't do that with normal gas these days...
>
> Ken in AZ
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 1:48 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>
>> I have spent nearly 2 days working on a 2 yr old Shindaiwa string
>> trimmer.  My local parts store tells me the spark plug is a one of a
>> kind NGK number and none are available in OK.  I have replaced the
>> suction filter in the tank, the lines from the tank to the carb, cleaned
>> out the carb, and checked the spark plug.  It will run maybe 2 seconds
>> after pulling the starter rope 10 times and then back to cranking
>> again.  There are a couple of models of trimmers that have electric
>> start, but not in Oklahoma...   I grew up working on small engines, then
>> later moving up to tractors and trucks.  I put myself through college
>> working on tractors and rebuilding equipment.  I went to the field on
>> got in the truck with a pair of pliers, a crescent wrench and a
>> screwdriver and finished the job or my run and got back home,  In the
>> last year I have not been able to make anything run that I have torn
>> down.  If it isn't diesel I can't get it to run....This includes
>> lawnmowers, ATV's and lawn & garden equipment.  Thank God my IHC truck
>> doesn't need any work.  I just cannot figure out when I lost my touch as
>> a mechanic..
>> I would sit down and cry if it would do any good, and I just don't do
>> that...
>> Cecil
>>
>> On 6/8/2021 2:50 PM, HERBERT METZ wrote:
>> > Carl; which ever color mower deck you use, keep those rear wheels
>> spread wide when mowing around edge of ponds and other irregular, spongy,
>> sloped surfaces. Herb(GA)
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 06/08/2021 9:08 AM szabelski at wildblue.net <szabelski at wildblue.net>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mowing wit our Cub is one of my wife’s favorite tasks. She’ll happily
>> go out and mow all day without saying anything to me, sometimes even when
>> it doesn’t need mowing in my opinion. We have an International C2 belly
>> mower and it takes no time to cut about 3 acres. I’ve got two sickle mowers
>> for it, each missing one or two non critical part. I’m planning on getting
>> at least one up and running so I can use it along the edge of our pond to
>> cut the reeds that are growing there. My only issue is I have to decide
>> which one I’m going to tackle. One is painted the standard red and the
>> other is painted blue. Don’t know if there is a community preference as to
>> which is preferred to mount on the Cub. The red one would match the color
>> of the Cub, but the blue one stands out and seems to look better from
>> pictures I’ve seen.
>> >>
>> >> Carl
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