Starting My Craftsman 4-Cycle Gas Edger For The First Time In A Couple Of Years

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Originally recorded July 19, 2024.
It had been a few years since I started my gas edger up. Could have been all the way back in 2020, but I might have used it since that time. Definitely not in 2023, so it was at least 2 years. And surprise surprise! Stale fuel in the tank!
I wanted to get this running this year because not only did the lawn need it pretty bad, but also because I was proactive and bought a new blade for it in case I would need it. Turns out the blade was all right for a bit yet. But will it run, especially on that old stale fuel?
Surprisingly, it was a one pull wonder! I was very surprised because in the past it usually would stall after a couple of seconds on the first start, even on fresh fuel.
While walking around it, it subsequently decided to "jump out of park", and the wildly spinning blade sent the machine hurtling after me! There's no way to stop that except to jump out of the way, so I did, ran behind the machine and grabbed the handle and lifted the front end up to prevent any further damage.
So a great day. Not only did I get my edger running and almost die, I was able to edge the lawn successfully after that. That was my main objective, because I knew that soon enough, ‪@tallboyyyy‬would be visiting. He always comments on how everyone's lawns around here have very nicely manicured edges, so I wanted mine to look the same.
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@dynatrak 8 дней назад

Wouldn’t have expected less from a Briggs! I had a 70’s Sears Eager 1 edger many years ago, and the blade wouldn’t run like that, unless the cutting head was lowered. Looks like this one was eager to get to work!

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

Well my old mower has a Briggs. It'd a carbinator issue, the engine runs. Though it does lock up occasionally. I don't know how mistreated that engine is before I got it, but probably very, and indeed it still runs. Yes, this one the blade goes all the time. Indeed, it's a bit TOO eager to get to work!

@tallboyyyy 9 дней назад

Thanks for the mention in the prescription. I comment about it when I'm there because it's just not a thing at all up here and down your way every lawn in the neighborhood is perfectly edged. I've seen it a little bit in FL but it's usually at a business as opposed to a residence. You are actually the very first person I've ever known that actually owns an edger. The only place you might see it up here is in a very upscale neighborhood where the people have landscapers take care of their lawn. In a regular middle class neighborhood you just never see it and if you did that guy would be the weirdo of the neighborhood.

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

No problem. My father had an electric edger when I was a kid, and when I bought my house, he gave it to me. I remember when he used it, it took all day. I used it once, and it took all day. Then I bought this one. He bought a gas one that's similar in a lot of ways, probably close to 35 years ago. No idea the last time he ran that, probably 20. Just a guess. It makes a difference in the way the lawn looks, it really does. I have to give my lawn a 1-2 punch to get it done. This machine trenches it out, but the grass is so thick and grows so strong that it doesn't rip it out. So after I have to go along with the weedwacker horizontally and that rips the rest of it out. It's still a long process and I burn a lot of string on the weedwacker doing it. Soil here is all sand so there's sand and dust in the air the whole time. I look worse than after the slime by the time I am done. Or wait, I thought the slime was a good look...

@Sharkie626 9 дней назад

Haha and here it is! I remember what you had told me about this, and when you started it, I was like "wait for it....." and I saw it drop back down and was like "Holy crap, just got out of the way!" Yeah this would mean more parts, but I wish they could design these things so you could disengage the blade while the engine is running. Beg MY pard, but I am really glad you did not do those 1/4 speed replays with the startups.

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

Yes, that was fun jumping out of the way just in the nick of time and grabbing the machine before it careened through the neighborhood. The blade just runs all the time. Of course, I defeated the "safety mechanism" as I do on all my machines. There's a handle that has to be held squeezed to keep it running. So a cable wrap around that defeats it, so if I need to move something out of the way or get a sip of water or what have you, I don't have to restart it. The 1/4 speed replays happen only when a starter is involved, or if the engine does something strange. The sound of the starter slowed down is great.

@ItzYaBoyJesse 9 дней назад

BRING THE THUNDER!

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

I did, and almost got struck by lightning!

@danewert2306 7 дней назад

Man, you should have work boots on working around a machine like that. You made me nervous walking around it while it was running. Then it took off by itself.... Accident waiting to happen. Good luck.

@jaykay18 7 дней назад

THe design of the machine is such that it's an accident waiting to happen, with the blade spinning all the time. The only "safety" on that machine is an engine kill switch on the handle, which I defeated with a simple tie wrap. These companies cetainly don't have your safety in mind, it will take a lot more than that to deter me. Safety is the resposibility of the user. It always was, and always will be. Otherwise, cars wouldn't run when the hood is opened. Sometimes a mechanic has to work on a car with the hood open and the engine running. It's up to the mechanic to be careful.

@danewert2306 7 дней назад

Agree with all of that.... Put some shoes on dude is all I'm saying! That was an injury waiting to happen!!!

@jaykay18 7 дней назад

@@danewert2306 Shoes ain't saving me. That injury is still waiting.

@danewert2306 7 дней назад

You are the kind of person my daughter See's in the Emergency room at the hospital....😮

@jaykay18 6 дней назад

@@danewert2306 You might be the kind of guy my wife sees in the UCY after a massive heart attack. It took me 8 hours to get a bed in the emergency room when my gallbladder became infected. Death for me was imminent within days. That scared the crap out of me. Not this machine.

@xjoe81x 8 дней назад

Well, that escalated rather quickly.

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

Definitely fun. I was able to grab it pretty quick. If that carried on to the fence it would not have been good. If it hit me it would have been worse.

@xjoe81x 8 дней назад

@jaykay18 Yes indeed. If anything, the concrete would have just started flying.

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

@@xjoe81x It did, as it chipped away at the driveway.

@niks_crazy_world 9 дней назад

Looks like it got really bored just sitting there and decided to fancy up the driveway by putting a bunch of marks in it… rise of the machines!

@jaykay18 8 дней назад

That was the only time that ever happened. And I always make absolutely sure it's locked in to "park", which I did this time as well. I'll have to try to tighten that bolt next I use it.