Craftsman 5.5 hp 21" Briggs & Stratton 2-n-1 Deck Rear Bag Push Lawn Mower Reviews
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Rating Summary
“Total piece of junk!!!”
- mowing the lawn
- Pros
- Easy to assemble (like all pushmowers)
- Cons
- No oil plug., Messy to operate, even with the bag on, Wheel height easy to displace., Quite simply a waste of money, poor dust control, very poor overall design, Extremely fragile.
Craftsman 5.5 hp 21" Briggs & Stratton 2-n-1 Deck Rear Bag Push Lawn Mower —
Just 13 months old and has been nothing but a headache and disappointing waste of my money.
1. The bag gets only about a third full before the clippings end up on the ground and caked up over the blade.
2. Spill gas while fueling and in days you'll see where you spilled gas as there'll be bare metal or plastic or whatever where gas made contact.
3. After you use it once it looks like you're the third generation that's owned this mower: caked on filth, total dust, grass everywhere, etc.
4. Any contact with a bush branch and more than likely you'll knock off a little spring by the air filter. When that happens the motor revs at about 1/4 of it's capability. Eventually after all the times you replace the spring it gets stretched and the mower at best will be at half speed (which I'll admit is good for stretching the gasoline).
5. Any contact with any small thing sticking out of the ground, like a root for example, and you're likely to knock off the rear flap on one side. Should you back up with a partly attached rear flap and it goes under the chasis...prepare to duck the cut apart plastic shrapnel that'll blast at you!
6. Should you tip the mower forward to replace the rear flap you'll spill gas all over your lawn thus killing (easier than cutting it). And oil will spill into the engine so that the next ten minutes of mowing your neigbors will think you're cropdusting and might call the cops to complain--and yes, that happened to me!
7. When you attempt to change the oil...good luck finding the drain plug! I don't care what the owners manual says, THERE ISN'T ONE!!!
8. Learn to live with and adapt to all this and you could still be surprised...like I was today when over a flat patch of level, root-free lawn the blade just simply FELL OFF THE MACHINE!!! Gathered up what parts I could but I cannot re-attach it. Thus the last straw.
Tomorrow I shop for a new (non Sears/Kmart brand) push mower and will not go cheap like I did when I selected this lousy piece of junk. Which I still have plans for--I plan to leave it outside all winter and see how long it takes to rot into the earth.
I wouldn't recommend this to an enemy let alone a friend. If nothing else, it's a fine example of how cheap things are made in China these days.
Last edited on Sep 09, 2009
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