My nearly 50 year old single daughter in MO is mad at me. Yesterday morning she sent some photos of several large tree limbs down in the yard and some hanging down. South Centra MO had some strong straight-line winds come through and knocked down power lines in her neighborhood but hers were OK. I did some work in my home area and some churches early, and then drove up here Monday evening, a 5 1/2 hour drive. After cutting numerous big limbs into pieces and wanting to haul it to her back yard for burning this morning, I went to get her 42" mower, but it would not start and has not started this year she said. So I couldn't use it to haul limbs in a large wagon behind the mower. I did have my small lithium jump charger with me and got the mower going. IF it stopped I had to jump it off again.
After getting the limbs cut up with my 20" chain saw and hauling them to the back of the house, I went to work on the mower. It needed a new deck belt. Went to Lowes and go one. The first tutorial showed about 30 - 40 minutes to replace the belt. I found another tutorial that said only about 10 - 15 minutes at the most. I looked through it and said I could do that. I replaced it in less than 15 minutes. Then went to Wally World and bought the same power (CCA) battery as Lowes for half the price.
The mower works fine now. I asked who had been cutting her grass. She told me she paid a service $75 every other week. Then she looked at me and said, "Gee thanks dad (sarcastically) now I have to start cutting it again - myself!"
We have to help our kids!
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