ctpres
Gold Member
Pushed my Bota a little to hard and managed to leave a little brown spot on her wrinkled seat. Same old process, dig hole around tree-cut roots with axe-push tree down with Bota-fill hole and burn tree. Seems I was pushing her a bit to hard and maybe didn't have RPM's up enough. Anyhow when pushing tree down ,motor seemed to stall and stated making BAD sounds and smoke was comining from under hood. Pushed on reverse peddle and she went forward?? Couildn't go forward-tree in the way. Tried forward and she backed up?? Shut her down looked under hood, not real sure what I"m looking for while thoughts of hugh repair bill were running thru my head. Finally got up enough nerve to try starting again and guess what happened? A little smoke starting and everything OK. Finally figured out that there was enough spring tension in tree from pushing so that when motor stalled tree pushed Bota backwards and viola, a reverse running engine.