DON'T BUY This Crappy Box Store Zero Turn Mower! 

Is there an email address or some way to get ahold of you taryl

@@arvillenoe2542 I am wondering of the same thing. What is your email address Taryl.

@@victoryfirst2878 I've got a all original restoration I'd love for him to do start to finish of great great great grandfather old ss12 it'd make several interesting videos. It belonged to my wife's family pepal died no one wanted it I got it because its been in the family since he worked for sears its one of the early 1960 released it's been from New Orleans to his move to Houston Texas finally to his move to Tennessee lots of history behind it and it was worked hard lots of attachments for it and to much history to just let go besides i like older garden tractors and equipment however he died at 93 just before his birthday shortly after that i got parts for it to get it going finally brought myself to working it got it running and have a video of it running on my play list it sat for several years before I got her running I think it was like 18 years sitting the shed before I got to it however I'd love to get everything as it should be pulleys belts bushings wiring stop light head lights cigarette lighter in the dash mower deck extra in dependable reliable ready to use shape but yet keep the original paint to show its age and how it's been used

That guy at the end there, looking to drop kids off at the pool, I'm pretty certain that was Bud Dickman.

Yours didn't come with the warning to not run around outside in an electrical storm?

I saw one that said, Don’t stick your foot under the deck ! Ouch

@@jamesbrannon9594 when I was a teen ,I was building a model car that I got from Japan. The interpreted instructions were horrible. The body mounted to the chassis with machine screws and the instructions stated: Don't screw the screwing hole too much or it will become unavailable. Sounds like the story of my dating life. 🤣🤣

And don't drink battery acid. "I didn't know that"

@@TheBandit7613 but it's got electrolytes. That's what plants crave!

What good is that? You can only ride one at a time!

@Your Pappy I will in the near future, but for now they are being used on my girlfriend's rental properties. My goal is to sell each one to a tenant. Except for one, it's my yard work/trail tractor.

Small Engines are easy but can be a pain sometimes

@Your Pappy In my case as a lawn man, If one breaks, you have backups until you fix the broken one.

Only 4? My boys drag that many home in a month to turn into the most bizarre lawn cruisers for farting around on logging roads 😆😆🦾

👍

Kawasaki fr651v engine is a piece of s#,....junk

@@patrickstockton2091 What about the fr730v , i thought kawis were supposed to be better than others .

Yeah, like gettin rid of these zero turn go cart mowers that are nothing but dangerous! People has gotten killed on them.

@@danbasta3677 People should just be pulling powered finish mowers behind their pickup if they have a big yard, weld about 6 junkyard push mowers together and hook it up to the Reese.

Manilla envelope....all the little bolts or wrenches, extra spark plugs, one of the most valuable drawers in my garage.

I miss Craftsman old stuff was good before it was offshored . Kenmore Whirlpool still good .

@@MitzvosGolem1 You aren't the only one.

most throw it out with the box right away..including anything they didn't think to look for.... and if they do remove the manual..they are too busy to look at it...

@@MitzvosGolem1 not when it comes to washer and dryers. The old was real good but now, it’s crap. Motor attached directly to adjutator. Bushings (not bearings) don’t last. I was an advocate for them until a couple years ago. Look up the reviews.

Haha, that's funny. I assume their first bike...?

@@doug2993 That, I dunno. It's a possibility.

I use to work for a Major Heavy Equipment Mfg years back , Got a call on Saturday Morning from a Customer who had gotten a 125 ft Genie Manlift ( we carried those as well ), it was like 7:00 AM an this guy was very irate ( Dude I haven't even gotta a cup of coffee yet ) anyway he's ranting an raving on the phone I'm holding it like a foot from my ear , He's saying the Boom won't swing an the machine is Worthless an He's demanding another new machine be brought out immediately, So I ask him by chance have you checked to see if The Boom Lockout pin was still in place - Oh Man did that set him off , what you think I'm a IDIOT I've been using these machines for 10 yrs lalalala . So I ask where he's at an tell him ok look it's going to be about 3 hrs before I can get there , WHAT I can't wait 3 Hrs well Sir that the est drive time to your site . Im getting dressed an my Boy he's 10 yrs old wants to ride along yeah ok Buddy . We pull up an sure enough the Boom Pin is locked in - it's got a huge metal D- Shaped handle an the pins like 1-1/4 dia steel about 6 inches long . I look over at my Boy an just shake my head. Here comes the Yelling Foreman spitting an arms waving as my boy jumps out an push's the boom side to side as the man basket wasn't sitting on the ground he reaches over pulls the pin an points saying Pin Pin even I know how to remove a pin 🤣, ( that's my Boy ) 👍😜. Wasted a Whole Day with drive time for some dumbass , when we could have been fishing or such .

I was one for 33 years. I had a sign that said “Fast, good, or Cheap-pick any two”

Same scenario happened to me. Only when my house burned down it got stolen by some meth heads prowling in my yard when they knew no one was there. My dad bought it at Montgomery Ward and used it for at least 10 years then he got a new Cub Cadet and gave me his MTD and I used it for 7 years. I always took good care of my lawn equipment especially that one. It held a great deal of memories, now my dad has passed away I wish I still had that mower.

Mtd is good brand go to home Depot sadly Walmart crap there. Ever since government band the flat head we SOL..

I have a 1978, All Steel Construction, Front- Tined Rototiller with a B&S 1 pull motor. It's irreplaceable

Home Depot and Wal Mart is MTD mowers. Same with Lowes, and others I am sure. The names you see at the BBStores on the mowers is just stickers MTD puts on their product under licensing agreements or outright purchasing the name. Change the plastinc body parts a little here and there and make em a different color. Say if you want a John Deere, you better go to a John Deere Dealer to get one. Same with others. MTD is for the price buyer only and the ones with the best success will be the ones with postage stamp flat yards.

90% of the parts weren't sourced from China in the 80's, like they are now.

Sure is trur

The only safety switch worth having if you ask me is the seat. My wife gives me hell because I'll cut a steep ass ditch and lean my ass onto the far right corner of the seat with basically just my left cheek on the seat lol but that's to keep the rear wheel that starts spinning biting 😂

@@acetech9237 same here lmao :D

I wish I could get rid of the switch that prevent me from reversing my 30" MTD while the blades are engaged. They got some clever setup where you have to put it in neutral, hold the brake, turn the key back one notch and press a button to disable the reverse safety. I keep nearly stalling because I forget to do that while trying to back out of or into a slot without disengaging the blades.

I put my safety’s back on my mower after I pulley swapped it I can catch a machine going 5 mph not 20

Not long ago they never had those stupid switches, but now we have stupid people with dangerous machines.

I always sit on the toilet and read instruction manuals... Its best to do it there anyway incase things don''t come out right

I do the same. You just have to use your head and be careful when starting it up or backing. Which a guy should, anyway!

My snapper was giving me all kind of problems sometimes it would crank sometimes it wouldn’t most likely not, carried it to a local mechanic he pointed a wire and said if you take this loose I think it’ll fix your problem, it did working great now.

@@redloh7204 My snapper was always giving me trouble. I found out that giving it turkey ans a little lettuce helps before I pick him up.

@@FourDollaRacingYour right. Useless, can't even use it as toilet paper!

Just selflessly giving my time so it may help others , unlike you who would probably drive past the scene of an accident with dying people on the road...

AntNee

I was at Home Depot, and they had a company in there to assemble their stuff that the sell. I wonder how that works for them?

@@Farm_fab Not good. I have a super stubborn elderly old lady for a neighbor. She bought what I think I remember was a Toro mower from Depot. Self propelled and I didn't like the sight of it. Well she got what she says is 25 stitches on up from her ankle up to the middle of her calf on her right leg. She would have been perfectly fine if the blade didn't fly off right next to her ugly little toad of an eco car she drives. The blade hit the rubber car tire came flying back and somehow being a flat blade it should not have shot out from under the mower at her going skywards but that is what the blade did do. I told her she has a law suit it was only the 3rd time she used it this year and the last time. I just cut her grass for like 5th time now... Never buy anything from a lumber store mechanical not even a power saw either... Most of the stuff Chinese garbage period.. Depot pulls what Walmart and other stores pull when they sell this Chinese crap. They have a little tag that says the unit should be serviced by a professional before use. What professional??? They sold it they should hire the professional. Oh but wait that costs money for a professional these days. And there ain't too many of us left no more..

It seems like the customer that owns the mower in the video left that thing sit out in the rain. One of my ex girlfriends bought a brand new crate mower from a dealer and three years later the head gasket failed. The original head gasket did not have a fire ring and that's why it failed , i matched up a fire ring from an old V8 car motor and it's still working 2 plus years later. She hired someone to install it with me basically telling him how to install it. It's my body failing me and not my mind , if not for my body failing me I would have fixed it myself.

Apparently, the assembler is one of those who "Never reads the manual." They are the know it alls that knows nothing at all.

@@carmichaelmoritz8662 Many people mistake this cheap garbage for the real McCoy because real commercial grade mowers are made to endure the elements as well extended use. I see a few guys I know still running zero turns from the later 90s and most commercial lawn guys do let their mowers sit on the trailers exposed no way to get around that when them guys work a seasonal job seemingly 24x7 schedule. Troybilt has some decent mowers like the Super Broncos I have one going on 15 years. People have asked me how I have one with a metal hood and not plastic hood also the front axle and rear axles are built like a beast compared to a newer one I picked off CL ads. The older one has a 15hp single cyl Kohler Pro in it as well. Most of em came with the crappy Kohler Courage motors. Then I have one that someone dumped off with a blown 20Hp Courage in it. Over all the thing is like new but it has a cheesey front axle on it I will say that the steering is like amusement park ride. I am repowering that one right now today.. All of the Super Broncos I have do also have shitty plastic hood hinges. all of em broke. Thanks commercial auto body plastic glues they survived my surgery and are much better than new hinges.

AGREE

Multimeter continuity testers can be finicky sometimes. Some work good, some not so good. There's different ways those meters test for continuity. So it's always a good idea to test the meter before you start testing things with the meter. Just so you know things are working how you think they should be working.

Right on, brother! "Real Men" don't read the instructions, but *smart* *men* do!

RTFM "Read the Fucking Manual"

@@qbubbaq I work in IT. PREACH!

My grandfather used to tell anyone that would listen about his neighbor Lenny that used his tongue to test for spark on lawn mowers back in the 50's and 60's. In the late 70's GM came out with their HEI units. He used his tongue there to test 4 spark on a Chevy Caprice and lost a portion of his tongue the spark blew part of his tongue off... Spark does tend to increase with water and moisture around.

That's what they teach them in engineering school now..............

Even bottom of the class engineers have to get a job somewhere. Besides, it's job security for people lake Taryl. Can you imagine what it'd be like for Taryl if nothing ever broke? He'd have to charge people for showing them how to do things that are in the manual.

I guess 3 years is a long time in MTD longevity?

Good deal! But the dude was right about the gas- I use only non-ethanol because of carb problems.

@@MrTruckerf have had ethanol in gas here since 95. Zero problems.

I agree.. cub cadets were well built machines before mtd.

@michael finney Wondering now what changes we’ll see now that Black & Decker bought MTD and Excell in 2021….

Big fan of Deere diesels like the 4045 ,6076 and 6081, before they went common rail injection for the emissions stuff. Now they are like the apple of the equipment market. Feel bad for the farmers waiting a week for some tech to come out and plug in a computer and find a 10$ bad switch ,meanwhile his crops are going to crap.

@@MrTheHillfolk yes, I fully agree. Down time costs the farmer way to much money. I have a John Deere compact diesel tractor, a 2004. Before the emission stuff came along. I grew up using John Deere tractors and equipment on the farm. The only way I would trade my John Deere, would be to have a cab with a/c, heat and a radio.

I can certainly see that with newer mtds and especially Troy-Bilt MTD mowers, however I have a couple from the '80s and '90s that run like absolute beasts and I've never had any major issues with them other than a couple small engine issues but the engines are of course built by Briggs & Stratton not mtd.

@@Realohiorailroadproductions I was questioning myself if I should include something about the older MTD's. You are correct, MTD did produce fine products in the past. It is possible, MTD saw the future of homeowners buying habits and realized, there was going to be a market for less expensive mowers. Plus, we have become a throwaway society too. Adding to why MTD has become the largest producer of mowers. A few years ago I was interested and looking for a model of MTD tractor you may own. Unluckily for me, my disability has gotten much worse. Causing me to look into having other hobbies.

@@Realohiorailroadproductions my lawn tractor is 22 years old and its never been broken. I think I put a new belt on it. Granted I only run it like 5 times a year in central Texas (this year not at all due to drought)

They are for lawn mowers and they cut grass.

Yeah Tarra, (I just gave u an Aussie name shortening). A talk on all the different blades would take the voodoo out of the subject.

But the problem isn’t that. It’s the fact that you have to cut the machine to access the switches.

@@matthewsones5287The access is a problem too. Take that switch apart, see why it lasts a year or two, when all the 45 year old Eaton, or GE, or Rockwell......or.....are still functioning in my little Sears/Cub. As far as access, litterally I should be pulling the flywheel on my old Briggs 1970s right now to service the points and condensor, instead I am waiting 4 days on an electronic coil. Had to drain and pull the gas tank to, for a service item..... The hidden in the harness relay bothers me worse. Just like fusible links in cars, engineers at their worst.

@@matthewsones5287 not to hound, but before I wondered, and intermittent failure is usually worse than a complete failure, especially with electric. Not just the troubleshooting, but something else will go bad from it.

@@ricksanchez3176 intermittent is way worse. I specialize in electrical repair in diesels…

@@matthewsones5287 That has got to be fun 😁😂. I grew up working on semis from the 70s and 80s in the 80s. There was a harness to the injectors, alternator, and headlights, and a couple single wires to the solenoid on the injector pump, and maybe a coolant alarm, not even wiring to the injectors on a Cummins. Now.....OK where's that manual......which doesn't have crap.

Oils collect dust and ruin switches. Use air or brake cleaner spray as it Evaps away dry.

True story from a tough period in my life. I had previously bought a Stihl new from the local dealer. They have an excellent young mechanic that had replaced the carb (ethanol ruined the 1st one), and I took the saw in later for something I can't recall just after putting in fluids. While there, he pulled the bar oil cap off. He says "there's GAS in there!" Yes, I had totally zoned and put fuel in the oil reservoir. And no, I wasn't there for oiler failure - it just happened the mech was doing routine "let's see the overall condition of this saw".

That’s what we need, why people buy from chain stores- because of smart mouth small businesses like yours

Was MTD now owned by Stanley

Troybuilt is now total JUNK. Shit doesn't run good out of the box.

@@TheBandit7613 Like so many other American brands, the bean counters took over and fired the engineers who knew what they were doing due to "cost cutting".

Careful on word 'Greed'. Investment industrial 'Stock' is used in large union and individual retirement funds, including insurance. No way possible for payroll deductions to cover massive retirement numbers of today.... Careful, like votes, consequences are never revealed.. until too late. ;/

I meant to say the videos are hard to stop watching they are so entertaining. Sorry but thanks again

Do you mean Yard Machine or just lawn equipment in general?

no such problems with Jacobsen or allett

Agreed. Maintenance and storage are key to machines longevity.