[AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake..... Wrong--NOW Battery Power

[Indiana Robinson]

About any farmer who has very many years at farming has more than one
really tough year that they can reflect on (unless they just block
themselves from thinking about them). I had my share... All water under the
bridge and no longer important in retirement.
I do recall a couple of "those years" that my parents had. On one of the
worst ones Christmas was really bare. My sister and I didn't really notice
the difference. We were young and Christmas had never been about just
spending money. What we did notice was that our parents had each bought the
other one a matching snow tire which were sitting under the tree with
matching bows. In those early days a car often worked as hard as a tractor
on the farm. That old car pulled a fair sized trailer and hauled all manner
of stuff. Tomatoes, melons, sweet corn, livestock, farm machinery... Good
traction was really important for it. My father and an uncle by marriage
had built that trailer out of the front end of an old Dodge truck from the
late 1920's or the early 1930's. I believe that they built it in the mid
1930's or a few years later
Looking down at my toes and twiddling my thumbs, I must confess that I
still have the fenders, the wire wheels and other bits of it "resting
around here yet...  :-)


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On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:43 PM szabelski at wildblue.net <
szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:

> Maybe next year you can get her a new butter churn and a new wash tub and
> scrub brush 😜😂😁.
>
> Carl
>
>
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> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:10:21 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake.....
> Wrong--NOW Battery Power
>
> Several years ago we bought Diana a 60 volt Snapper trimmer. I think that
> was also the year that I bought her a new broom, sparing no expense. That
> Snapper has been a great trimmer. It has a "soft start" and it just keeps
> going. Earlier this week I was watching her plough through a batch of waist
> high grass in a little lot too small for a bigger mower... I probably
> wouldn't try to use it on very much brush and rocks but it should work fine
> for any big yard. This year I bought her a really nice set of loppers... I
> also bought her a good used 4 cycle edger / trimmer. It runs nice, I just
> need to pick up an air cleaner for it.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 8:11 PM Kenneth Gene Waugh <kgwaugh0943 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am not aware of any of the battery trimmers that accept brush cutting
> > blades. Even though I am very happy with my EGO trimmer for light to
> > moderate, in-town use, I suspect that you would not be happy with battery
> > operated.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 6:48 PM STEVE ALLEN <
> steveallen855 at centurytel.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> To those of you gents who sing the praises of battery powered motor
> >> tools, let me ask an honest question, please:
> >>
> >> How well do the weed trimmers handle heavy brush, brushy clumps, and
> >> woody stalks?  Related:  do any accept brush cutting blades?  My
> trimming
> >> is rife with such obstructions, and I'd like a sense of capacity to
> handle
> >> the heavy stuff before investigating further.  I'd trust your reports
> more
> >> than just about any other, so I haven't even bothered looking elsewhere.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any insight,
> >>
> >> The "original" Steve Allen
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> Central Indiana USA
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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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