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What Are TARIFFS & How Could They Affect The Small Engine Outdoor Equipment Industry?​

Feb 7, 2025

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I Modified This SPARK PLUG Socket To Fit In Every NOOK & CRANNY! Small Engine Repair With DONYBOY73​

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Sad.

Ariens, some may know, wound up owning what was left of Gravely Tractors, after Studebaker and Clarke Equipment finished gutting it.

Lawn-tractor geeks will know of Gravely. Their engineering doctrine was, "Cast Iron. When in doubt, use cast iron." Their snowblowers had no plastic chutes, no polycarb toy-shovel mounted to clear. AND no auger-release handle. To disengage the snowblower, you either shut the tractor down, or you moved to the attachment boss casting and turned a T-handle lever 180 degrees. Disengaging the blower was simple, but ENGAGING it, quite the act. You wanted to wear thick gloves; or, if you were like me, you'd start it, warm it up, and then shut it down, engage the attachment drive, but keeping the transmission in N (not a total disengagement; it creeped, because of cone clutches) and then started it up.

Not with a push button. With a leather strap.

The thing was WORK to use, but it would last longer than its owner. Ariens has completely abandoned what knowledge and design-rights they purchased with the company.
 

Husqvarna Chainsaw Leaks Fuel On Clutch Side - Let's Fix It!​

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^^^^^^

Replace it with a steel or aluminum one.

Even a Chin knock-off is better. Even one thirty years older, will work, if the engine is of similar size and axis.
 

Can This Old PIONEER P11 Chainsaw Be Fixed? Plus I'm Giving It Away!​

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Watch This Dead Lawn Tractor Come Back to Life!​

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Wood Splitter Starts & Dies - HOW-TO Replace The Carburetor To Make It Run Like New Again!​

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Touring the Worlds GREATEST equipment expo​

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STIHL MS291 Chainsaw Has No Power & Won't Rev-Up!​

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Wheels Won't Turn On Craftsman Snowblower - Easy Fix With Donyboy73​

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The Little Tractor That Could​

Jan 26, 2026 #ETCG1Video
I bought this tractor and snowblower about a month ago. They weren’t in the best of shape, but I managed to make them work my first time out. Since then I’ve done some upgrades and fixes that really helped me pull the hill in my driveway with about a foot of snow. Although, I almost didn’t make it. Check out the video to see what I mean.

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Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ETCG1/videos
 
A novice.

First, using repair links and bolt cutters, he could have made chains fit - cut them down. Not the best way, but that's not exactly heavy-duty use.

Second...TAKE SMALLER BITES. That's all. Can't figure it out? Go call a gardening service to plow your driveway.
 

Repairs Are Not Always In Proportion To What You Paid For The Equipment! Here's Why!​

Jan 30, 2026

8:25
 
searcher said:

BRIGGS & STRATTON Engine Postmortem Autopsy - Teardown & Cause Of Death!​

Feb 20, 2026 ✪ Members first on February 19, 2026 #donyboy73 #briggs #cubcadet

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Didn't catch the whole video...mostly because it's predictable. Too many other vids in my inbox.

Nonetheless...we have a problem. While the complexity of these things increases exponentially - OHC setup and emissions controls, two examples; forced lubrication replacing splash in B&S engines....while this happens, the SHEER STUPIDITY of OWNERS is ALSO on the rise.

No excuse for not checking the oil. Man, I had my father drill down on that when I was a little kid learning how to start a Gravely. ALWAYS check the oil before operation. My father thought changing the oil every season was a waste...I disagreed; and learned what I knew on the golf course I worked at. The redneck foreman we had, had us check the oil on mowers and tractors, BEFORE use, WHEN shutting down at the end of the day; and rainy days were filled with us changing oil on the stuff. We did it about once a month.

Our machinery, late 1970s, consisted of two 1949 Ford 8Ns; three Toro mowers with mid-1950s Kohler engines; a diesel Case/David Brown tractor, a diesel Ford that was a couple years old. And two Jacobsen greens mowers.

So we had new stuff and old stuff that ran like new. LUBRICATION! Walt learnt that on his Model A when he was a young man. He made sure we knew it and lived it.

To today's knuckleheads: I DESPISE battery cars, but battery lawnmowers, and snowblowers, and chain saws...make a lot of sense. They're simple to today's Jab-brain-damaged, autistic young adults. Pop a battery-pack in, and start blowing the snow. It'll last three years; then you can get BNPL to finance another one for you, through your "old" one in the trash. Which they'd do with a flat tire or rust, anyway.
 
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