"Two-Starter" Lawn Mower

"Two-Starter" Lawn Mower FARM HOME Lawn Mowers (31h,38) 28-3-43 Tom Crowder, a mechanic from Quanah, Texas, recently sent FARM SHOW this photo of a push lawn mower that he equipped with a second starter that he salvaged from an older mower. "If the original factory rope starter ever breaks, I can just use the second one," he says. His mower is equipped with a 3 1/2 hp Briggs & Stratton engine. He says the idea won't work on any other kind of engine because there isn't room for a second starter, as the fuel tank gets in the way. He cuts a 1 by 1 1/2-in. long slot into the shroud on the carburetor side of the mower and then inserts the second starter in there. "You have to use an older flywheel with cogs on the bottom," he notes. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Tom Crowder, Air Matic Meters, Inc., 309 East 10th St., Quanah, Texas 79252 (ph 940 663-2665).

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