cracked_ribs
Well-Known Member
Basically, I moved to Ladysmith where I have a lawn for the first time.
When I was a kid on the island there were always these grease monkey small engine shops in somebody's garage and you could get an old Homelite chainsaw for $40 and a heavily used but perfectly tuned 1960s Sears lawnmower for another $30.
Can anybody point me to something like that, somewhere on the south island? Basically I don't want a $400 lawnmower from Home Depot that's brand new from China, if I could get an old one made somewhere in the west that's been gone over by a local small engine guy for a hundred bucks. Does this kind of thing still exist or do I just sound like a crazy guy with a weird conspiracy theory about small engines?
It doesn't have to be gas or anything, I don't really care, I just only have experience with chainsaws and they've always come from some guy's basement that reeks of two-stroke and his nails are permanently black from working on them and I give him cash and that's how I like the world to work. Anyway if this is making sense to someone and they have a name or a phone number for me I'd appreciate it.
When I was a kid on the island there were always these grease monkey small engine shops in somebody's garage and you could get an old Homelite chainsaw for $40 and a heavily used but perfectly tuned 1960s Sears lawnmower for another $30.
Can anybody point me to something like that, somewhere on the south island? Basically I don't want a $400 lawnmower from Home Depot that's brand new from China, if I could get an old one made somewhere in the west that's been gone over by a local small engine guy for a hundred bucks. Does this kind of thing still exist or do I just sound like a crazy guy with a weird conspiracy theory about small engines?
It doesn't have to be gas or anything, I don't really care, I just only have experience with chainsaws and they've always come from some guy's basement that reeks of two-stroke and his nails are permanently black from working on them and I give him cash and that's how I like the world to work. Anyway if this is making sense to someone and they have a name or a phone number for me I'd appreciate it.