Another Darwin Award...

Mith · Apr 12, 2005

twinkies???!!

YanmarFever · Apr 12, 2005

A friend once told me to coat or spray the bottom of my mowers w/ diesel when they are new and they would last longer.
Well I still have the mower from 1988 & the deck still looks great, I just spray it with a little diesel once a year.
It keeps the grass from sticking to it & moisture, which is the culprit that rusts it out. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I guess it has worked for me all these yrs. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Tractor Ernie

Bird · Apr 12, 2005

( friend once told me to coat or spray the bottom of my mowers w/ diesel )

I've posted this information before, but I had a spray gun that I hooked my air hose to and then it had a siphon tube I could stick in almost any liquid and spray a very fine mist. So I had a gallon jug in which I mixed one quart of motor oil and three quarts of diesel, and that was what I sprayed on the bottom of my mower. It sprayed such a fine mist that I could completely wet the bottom of the mower every time I mowed and yet use so little that a gallon of that mixture would last two years.

hobbyfarm · Apr 12, 2005

Hey Gatorboy,
Something about that gadget looks unsafe. I prefer to slide out the deck. Costs nothing, no surprises, five minutes.

But, by all means in the name of capitalism, let them market the thing across the pond. Here, I think it would be a shyster's buffet.

willfick · Apr 13, 2005

"Twinkies" - a packaged snack food, infamous for an almost total absence of nutritional value coupled with an outstanding refined sugar content. While some of our fast food outlets might draw lawsuits for luring the unwary into obesity, Twinkies are the only junk food I know of to have been used as a defense in a murder trial. In San Francisco one county official shot and killed another. His lawyers claimed he was unbalanced due to blood sugar abnormalities brought on by a diet consisting in large part of Twinkies.
Wm
From South Carolina, home of the all natural health food favorite, deep fried fatback

Spiffy · Apr 13, 2005

Looks awesome!

One waxed, and one not? You have a real scientific study going on, Mith!

Too many twinkies as a kid instilled enough residual laziness to make me lean toward the cooking spray or the fuel/oil mixture unless the wax wins hands down. On the other hand, the strange looks I'd get waxing the mower deck would insure that neighbors wouldn't want to borrow any tools from me! Clean deck....no borrowed tools....I like it!

Chad

Spiffy · Apr 13, 2005

I just got to thinking...(yes, dangerous):

Don't know about your neck of the woods there Mith, but there have been Federal grants for much less worthy causes and less scientific experiments than your deck waxing comparison. I'm really liking this; maybe I should apply for a grant and try it over here. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

No, too much paperwork and work maintaining two identical mowers [or 4 or 5 to get the diesel and cooking spray lobbies involved]. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Money to be had, but the dang residual effects of those twinkies again!

Yes, the decks with the quick connects for a garden hose is what I was talking about. Read, somewhere else, that if you run and/or grease your deck after the wash your bearings are safe. I'm thinking wax, diesel, or Pam are cheaper than bearings.

Chad

chatcher · Apr 13, 2005

( OK, the deed is done, laugh at me all you want, but the deck is waxed! Ill let you know the results, 2 mowers, exactly the same, one waxed the other not. Well see how it goes next time i mow (may be a little while, it just rained a bit, bummer.

Pic: the waxed deck. )

There is a product, I think from your side of the pond, called Waxoyl that is a mixture of wax (what Americans call paraffin) and oil, used for rustproofing. I wonder what wax dissolved in diesel fuel would do?