Panic Fuel buying

[sirwiggum]

First cut of the season and the little electric mower was struggling.

Our rented house has a huge rear garden. It is wasted on us and would be ideal for a family with a dog. It also though has a steep section on one edge of the garden.

We bit the bullet and bought a petrol mower to finish the first cut.

Oil, petrol, primed. Few pulls of the cord, it starts. Start mowing, few seconds later, cuts out. The cord wont pull at all. We are baffled for ages, phoning the girlfriends dad, me trying to pull the cord and wondering about taking the heavy beast back to the shop but getting our oil and petrol back out of it.
Then I search the net. Turned out the grass it cut all of a sudden clogged up the blades, so the cord couldnt pull. Unclogged, raised the ride height, and away we went again.

Unfortunately our landlords (a local house building company that couldn't sell the houses so are renting them as they get charged extra rates (our council tax) on empty properties) did not supply a shed or build a garage. Our small electric mower we could keep in a heavy duty bag under the stairs. However this thing we are wanting to keep good (not outdoors) so it now lives in the living room covered by a "throw" to make it look less like a lawnmower.

Highlander - The last place we lived was an apartment block with a couple of townhouses and was like that for parking. Because we were the end house and while we did have a driveway, people would often park nose to the kerb *across* our driveway. We used to have to try and get home and whoever was there first had to park across the driveway because someone else would, and at least if it was one of our cars we could move it!

[Doggy]

It may not be too unpleasant, while it only pongs of fresh grass cuttings, but it's not going to improve with time or warmer weather.

I'm trying not to imagine the aroma of spilt fuel & shredded cat/dog poo that must eventually eminate from under your 'throw'.

[sirwiggum]

It may not be too unpleasant, while it only pongs of fresh grass cuttings, but it's not going to improve with time or warmer weather.

I'm trying not to imagine the aroma of spilt fuel & shredded cat/dog poo that must eventually eminate from under your 'throw'.

It was pretty bad the first few days. But the price we spent, it isn't going to rust outside! (I've bought and sold cars for less than this thing cost!)

The sooner we get our next house with a nice big garage for Hondas and lawnmowers the better. Seems to take ages, so many forms.

[Welly]

The sooner we get our next house with a nice big garage to fill up with all the crap we've collected over the years but don't have the heart to throw out so there's no room for a car or lawnmower so it will still live in the garden under a makeshift cover and slowly rot away anyway the better. Seems to take ages, so many forms.

Fixored.

[sirwiggum]

True. We've moved from individual rooms, a 2 bedroom house, a 3 bedroom house to hopefully a 3 bedroom house with garage, and we've managed to fill each space as we've went along