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Riding lawn mower parts represent one of the most maddening pursuits of home ownership.  There are endless “almosts” in this category, yet, more maddening still, they are not all universal between brand names.  Debris-catchers, wheels, cords, starters, blades, attachments and engine parts all represent an irritating menagerie of frustration and thus an diabolically evil abuse of the typical American Male!

There are few ready answers to these conundrums, other than to mention that some brand names are more reliable and responsive than others to solving these crises.  Naturally, when one wants to have a mower serviced, he has already waited too long, the story goes, because lawnmower repair people get inundated in early or pre-Spring with guys with lawnmower issues.

My advice as a pro?  Buy a brand name product whose parts would be available when needed.  Do some research locally and find who markets the products and check into how they service the people buying from them.  One needs to know if they have the parts over the counter or not, first.  Then one wants to know how long the typical shipping scenario is.  It would also be handy to ask if any professionals at the business have experience with the items. I strongly recommend this, as one who has paid just a little less for a product only to face exasperation over my own or my repairman’s time lag in getting the necessary parts.

Commercial lawn tractors have revolutionized lawns and gardens for literally everyone. Commercially, they give the ability to mow huge expanses of lawns in a timely manner, for businesses and estates. For the average homeowner, needless to say, they do the same. But for the homeowner, they offer so many more absolutely cool variables to make the place more labor-friendly, thus also making it more able to represent one’s fondest lawn and garden fantasies of beauty and representation.

The attachments available now are legion. Not only is bagging and disposal of clippings easier, but also for those with substantially-sized lawns and gardens, the mere addition of a wagon is noteworthy. Then there are the many attachments: chippers, leaf mulchers, aeration attachments, thatch-removal mechanisms, the list is nearly endless. All these user-friendly items can enhance the traditional hard labor of lawn upkeep by miniaturizing the time frames of these optional tasks when compared to prior eras.

What results by owning a heftier and more capable machine like a commercial lawn tractor is a resulting smaller number of hours spent doing what were once optional chores. Now a desire to dethatch, for example, can be accomplished in 10% of the time and without hiring specialists for the work. The result is, of course, a gorgeous production someone can feel hugely proud of displaying.

Automated lawn mower technology represents a virtual and actually funny Holy Grail for the American Male and his typical slaves: his children. There are actually some now on the market, although the discontinuation of a few lines undoubtedly represents some systemic failure in those units indicating the technology required has either been bad enough to acquire law suits or they have simply not yet found a reliable enough performer when faced with real lawns with real lawn problems.

It’s funny, too, in a way.  You can go to almost any convention dealing with large earth-moving equipment and see fabulous demonstrations of riderless, remote-controlled bulldozers performing perfectly.  Naturally, these demonstrations take place in quality-controlled environments, with ideal soil and working conditions, for example, no rain and soil that has no gigantic impediments..Laser technology has made excavating and grading tons easier, there is no doubting this, in the very practical world where they are abundantly in use now in road grading and site formation. This much is a done deal and represents hope for those lusting for the next wave of excellent remote controlled lawn mowers. And we are legion!

Just the same, when the breaks occur and you start seeing some actually being used, you may then assume the technology has grown up.  As yet, we are close, there’s no doubt about it. As yet, power issues, inclement weather, the current need to bury vast amounts of wire underneath and the constancy of varying lengths of the grass itself add up to a pretty steep learning curve.  It will happen, I have no doubt.  We’ll just need to wait a bit longer for a reliable variant to be m,ass produced at a price we could afford.