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RE: lawnmower repair redux

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Subject: RE: lawnmower repair redux
From: scott.hall@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:24:34 +0000
I hate *you* randall. ;-)

I'm off to do battle with the bastard again.

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From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
> 
> > I friggin' HATE sears and their lawnmowers.  have never seen or heard of
> > a good one.
> 
> Had my little 30" Sears for over 25 years now.  Had to repair it several times
> ... I'm probably on the 4th or 5th blade and pull rope for it, but otherwise 
>it
> just keeps chugging along.  When I bought it, I had perhaps 1/4 acre that was
> shoulder-high in weeds ... had to kind of throw the mower up on top of the 
>weeds
> and let it munch it's way to the ground (hopefully before the engine died) ...
> never thought it would last through all that but it did, and kept it mowed as
> long as we lived there.
> 
> Now I have just a postage-stamp size lawn, and a gardener to mow it for the 
>last
> few years.  He disappeared this summer and I had to get the ole Sears out.
> Cleaned it up a bit, tightened a few screws, replaced the split fuel line ... 
>it
> fired right up and mowed.  Best Darned $100 mower I've ever owned ! (and the
> only <g>)




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