Stainz
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Last autumn, a new HVAC system - heat pump with gas piggy back replaced gas furnace/electric AC. Nine months later, it's cost is significantly less - super air filter has helped my asthma, too. Probably gets greenie points.
My 2 yr old Honda powered lawn mower puked. Repair facility told me they could fix it - sounded like ethanol-use damage - $65+ - and no warranty with continued ethanol-mix gasoline use. Of course, try to find ethanol-free gas around here. They are sneaking up on 10% - the plastic parts in the carb, like the choke axle, etc, don't like ethanol. I started to buy a battery operated mower - they need new batteries annually. Maybe an AC operated one. Then - crannial flatulance - get a decent push type mower - a reel type like I had to use as a kid. Hmmm, 60 yr old fat guy needs excercise... seemed reasonable. The local big box store had a four wheel super one - $154 w s/t. I nneded a string trimmer - and here is one that - big greenie points - runs on propane!! Got 'em both - went home with much green-ness.
The string trimmer was a keeper. After two days of use - 3+ hr - the 16.4 oz bottle of propane, like used on a camp lantern, is still ~1/3 full. Neat... until the poison ivy rash appeared on my calves... yeah, I wore shorts. I found the mower cheaper ($99.99 w s/h), so I ordered it on the web - it arrived yesterday and I assembled it only to spend the next 1.5 hr making a mess of my too-tall/wet lawn. My wife thought I hadn't even cut it... neither did my neighbor, who pitied me and cut it for me this AM. I can keep it short with that reel mower - now that it is short - and likely kill myself with the effort.
Looking at my leper-like legs - poison ivy scabs/scars in abundance - not to mention the $50 of OTC drugs to cope with it - I don't feel so green. Given a 'do-over', to heck with 'going green'! I miss my gas mower.
Stainz
My 2 yr old Honda powered lawn mower puked. Repair facility told me they could fix it - sounded like ethanol-use damage - $65+ - and no warranty with continued ethanol-mix gasoline use. Of course, try to find ethanol-free gas around here. They are sneaking up on 10% - the plastic parts in the carb, like the choke axle, etc, don't like ethanol. I started to buy a battery operated mower - they need new batteries annually. Maybe an AC operated one. Then - crannial flatulance - get a decent push type mower - a reel type like I had to use as a kid. Hmmm, 60 yr old fat guy needs excercise... seemed reasonable. The local big box store had a four wheel super one - $154 w s/t. I nneded a string trimmer - and here is one that - big greenie points - runs on propane!! Got 'em both - went home with much green-ness.
The string trimmer was a keeper. After two days of use - 3+ hr - the 16.4 oz bottle of propane, like used on a camp lantern, is still ~1/3 full. Neat... until the poison ivy rash appeared on my calves... yeah, I wore shorts. I found the mower cheaper ($99.99 w s/h), so I ordered it on the web - it arrived yesterday and I assembled it only to spend the next 1.5 hr making a mess of my too-tall/wet lawn. My wife thought I hadn't even cut it... neither did my neighbor, who pitied me and cut it for me this AM. I can keep it short with that reel mower - now that it is short - and likely kill myself with the effort.
Looking at my leper-like legs - poison ivy scabs/scars in abundance - not to mention the $50 of OTC drugs to cope with it - I don't feel so green. Given a 'do-over', to heck with 'going green'! I miss my gas mower.
Stainz
