OT: What to do with your old lawnmower, pressure washers etc. that are no longer worth fixing...
- Thread starter kidcock#
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Set them out on the curb the evening before your waste removal pickup. The "garbage grabbers" will take care of them for you.
Leave on street and a mechanic type will pick it up and $10.00 later have it running and on eBay
If you have any old motorcycles that are no longer worth fixing, ask here first. 😉
I saw a less fortunate couple in my town that had taken the motor off of an old push mower and mounted a baby car seat on it. It worked, they had the baby in the seat and were headed to the grocery.
Or to a local high school that has a small engine repair class.
We've had several yard sales that included small engines that didn't run. Some of them came with the house and had never run since I've lived here. A tiller, an edger and a weedeater that I remember. Someone always made offers on them. There's a lot of interchangeability between small engines and parts.
Take them to a scrap metal place. They will give you a few bucks and sell them for scrap metal.
Send me a message and I will gladly come get anything you want to throw away. I tinker with things in my spare time.
I took an old refrigerator last week to the landfill and I saw this mower.I would love to have taken it back with me.
Not trash but I’ve got this old dingo manco buggy I got as a kid in 1990. Tried getting it running a couple months ago. It would start to fire but carb was clogged. Fuel tank rusty. I took it to a small engine shop in Chaplin with a new carb and fel tank per his recommendation and he was gonna get it going.
Well, he got it to run (rough) but he says it’s leaking between the carb and motor. He tried some kind of gasket but no dice.
I’m now debating just putting a whole brand new motor on the thing but I really hate trashing an 8 hp Briggs ( he says those ol Briggs were really about 12-13 hp.
I want to get it going and my kids ride it one day and I don’t think you can buy anything like it now.
any ideas? I’d pay to get the motor and new carb going but I hate fiddling with engine stuff like this.
Well, he got it to run (rough) but he says it’s leaking between the carb and motor. He tried some kind of gasket but no dice.
I’m now debating just putting a whole brand new motor on the thing but I really hate trashing an 8 hp Briggs ( he says those ol Briggs were really about 12-13 hp.
I want to get it going and my kids ride it one day and I don’t think you can buy anything like it now.
any ideas? I’d pay to get the motor and new carb going but I hate fiddling with engine stuff like this.
