Struggling pushing that so-called "self-propelled" lawnmower of yours around your estate? Thinking "My God, I'm old!"? Ready to hire a lawn service — because there sure ain't no neighborhood kids looking to pick up some extra money? Been having these thoughts for the last month and a half, have you?
Hold your horses! Maybe all you need to do is adjust the speed on your mower. On my Toro, the cables from the shifter and the speed lever and the control bar run down the handle and pass through a "control knob" and into the — what? body? patform? housing? — of the mower, like so:
Give that control knob a clockwise twist or two and you'll be amazed how much stronger and younger you'll feel.
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If that same self-propelled mower fails to turn off when you release the control bar, you've got several options:
- Spend a large fortune to have it repaired.
- Wait until the mower runs out of gas.
- Tilt and bounce the mower violently, in an attempt to keep gas from reaching the carbuerator.
- Pull the spark plug wire.
I think you'll find the last of these to be the easiest, cheapest, and most effective. Eventually the connector at the end of the wire will no longer fit the plug tightly, but "eventually" might be a long time coming.
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