Lovin' The Lawn Boy

[Doc Sprocket]

I dunno- wouldn't that be unnecessarily expensive? I have no idea what's up with the offset wheel thing either...

In about an hour, I'm going to run over to my coworker's house and pick up the DuraForce (amongst other things). Wish me luck!

 

[anderkart]

Good luck, may the force be with you... (i mean the Dura-Force, not that starwars crap)

 

[Bluethunder3320]

magnesium? wow so the whole deck is explosive?

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Scored! Wow- I didn't expect to be in this late. Shot the breeze, had dinner and a beer, BS'ed about work. Anyhow- I got my DuraForce- Freebie!

Compression feels good on the pull, but I'm too tired to mess with it (10:30pm over here) and unfortunately I'm taking off for the weekend immediately after work tomorrow so I won't really be able to check it out until Sunday evening

I hope it's good! Anyway, here's my prize!

 

[Russ2251]

Scored!

Indeed.
This mower may have some REAL value to a collector.
Commercial Duraforce L-B's are not all that common.
I would recommend that you get it appraised before tearing into it.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Interesting... Value aside, I'd hate to think I fought that long and hard to lay hands on a good 2-stroke for conversion only to find out I ought not do it. I guess I'll see. First, I'm going to assess it's condition and hopefully find it's a runner without too many issues. I suppose I'll figure out my next move from there.

 

[Russ2251]

I suppose I'll figure out my next move from there.

Do you have an Ebay account?

 

[sexyvicta]

somebody send me one of these engines with the boost port.

goddang i will be boss if i had that engine. I think that would be pretty much the only twostroke lawnmower engine that hasn't been sold down here. The funny thing is you could still sell it new in australasia. Somebody tell that to lawnboy. Only twostoke competition left on the market to victa are chinese clones of the old suzuki engine

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Wow! (I see that one is self-propelled, this one isn't, but) Wow!
What did these things retail for?
I do have an evilbay account, I've never sold anything though- just purchases.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Well- I just got in from work, and I'm about to get lost for the weekend, but I could not fight the urge to mess with it for a few minutes. It's a runner!!!

 

[redsox985]

Take a look here and see which you have. But these aren't commercial models though.

http://www.lawn-boy.com/wpmModels/models.html

 

[Russ2251]

None if the above...those are ALL 4 cycle (note valve covers).
2 cycle Lawn-Boy has been out of production since 2004.
Link provided shows green painted Toro mowers.

 

[Bluethunder3320]

one of their mowers is called "blade stop"

why? i prefer my mower to spin. lol.

 

[redsox985]

None if the above...those are ALL 4 cycle (note valve covers).
2 cycle Lawn-Boy has been out of production since 2004.
Link provided shows green painted Toro mowers.

Good catch Russ. I just Google'd LB.

one of their mowers is called "blade stop"

why? i prefer my mower to spin. lol.

We recently got a new one and looked into this. It disengages and stops the blade while the motor is still running so you can walk away from the mower safely while not needing to restart it when returning back to it. Useful for emptying the bag...because it's tough to pull start a warm motor.

 

[kendelrk]

its like a snowblower, you dont need to make the augers spin to start or keep it running, same with this lawn mower

 

[redsox985]

I just got a text today, I'm getting a free LB on Monday! This is like the week of free LBs. I'll have Russ give it a good look on here before I try anything cause it might be worth something to someone.

 

[kendelrk]

hey redsox, quit hogging all the good ****

 

[dave1701]

Yea, It must be that Michigan sucks cause we don't have **** around here.

 

[redsox985]

What am I hogging besides TS's thread! I haven't had crap to work on for a long time!

 

[bighead]

Thanks for this thread. I have another item logged into my head for this years garage sale season. I would never think a mower like this would be worth anything like that. I would walk right by it. Untill now that is.