the desision has been made... (maybe)

Since November the search for a new mower has been ongoing as you know if you have been reading this blog, being bored by this blog, being put to sleep by this blog... The thing is why it has taken so long to get a mower.. It's going to be electric, and if there were any doubts about that they were erased quickly with the neighbors.. They have either a new gas powered mower, or used or second hand or it could be brand new.. The big negative towards having a gas mower is.. Well besides being gas powered it is a huge negative having to keep a gas can on hand, and oil, and having to keep the filters clean and the oil at the ready.. We had the Lawn boy mower one year, or two.. the Lawn Boy was a great mower, our neighbor across the street had one and he mowed his lawn and the smell of the exhaust was distinguishable from any other mower.. But the big negative of having anything gas powered is they should be stored in the garage or.. A shed.. We never had a solid good place to stored our mower ever before about seven years ago.. Without a good storage place snow and rain can get into the mower, making it hard to start if at all.. There was a time when my dad swore by gas powered  lawn mowers, then he swore at them, and then he got his first electric lawn mower, but it would eventually break down for whatever the cause.. He would then get a series of gas mowers before getting a few different electric mowers.. By the time I was able to help mowing it would be alternating gas for a few years, then electric then gas.. By the time he was getting to where he couldn't mow the grass at all he had gotten an electric lawn mower that would last quite a few years, and it was still stored outside it was a very good mower.. I would use it until it stopped.. Then got one again nearly ten years ago.. Black and Decker was that brand on both of those and the last one and every one (electric) would not have a grass catcher or it would be really expensive.. Then this years mower giving in made me look again and see that grass catchers are more the norm than the exception and so that is what we will get.. 

What was the mower deal next door?  Well I thought very slightly about getting a gas mower except... I was out listening to them mow.. The mower would stop and start, just like most people with mowers that bag the grass, but upon returning to mow, the pull start was a few tries to get it to go.. My arms have both popped out of the socket, my shoulder socket on both arms and the elbow as well on my left arm was dislocated, and still locks up to this day some fourteen years later.. Yes I pull started with both arms it's no big deal.. Then they ran the weed eater thing and the constant pull start sound like a lot of painful pull starts..  Yup we have electric and everybody might think "what a wuss" But I might be that but I get starts almost 100% of the time.. So take that..

Badge Henry