I've carried on here before about a lawn sweeper. You tug it behind the riding mower and it tosses the grass clippings into a bin. One of the best most-hated lawn tools in the world, right up there next to the weedeater. Love it, cuss at it.
Well our sweeper, the one we have now, it's been getting more and more useless as time has gone by. I was having to go crawl speed, anything faster would sling the clippings all the way over the top of the bin and I'd have to go around for another pass. There's that and when the yard is just the slightest bit wet it would drag the wheels and carve the yard up and not sweep at all.
It must be time for a new one, they don't last all that long. Northern sent me a catalog and there's another one just like it. Exactly like it. The same one. DANG I hate putting another one of those things together. All of the customer reviews are true - "Great tool, but it's a royal pain in the ass to assemble." And it for all the world IS a PITA to put together.
Crew Chief Unit said, "Why don't you go figure out why it's doing that?" It's been plaguing me all summer. Just throw the thing away, I'm tired of it, it pisses me off.
So today just now I did finally go out there and look at it.
There is an adjustment. The brushes were set way too low. I was using the adjustment handle to push the thing around to park it, and the handle was moving.
Well our sweeper, the one we have now, it's been getting more and more useless as time has gone by. I was having to go crawl speed, anything faster would sling the clippings all the way over the top of the bin and I'd have to go around for another pass. There's that and when the yard is just the slightest bit wet it would drag the wheels and carve the yard up and not sweep at all.
It must be time for a new one, they don't last all that long. Northern sent me a catalog and there's another one just like it. Exactly like it. The same one. DANG I hate putting another one of those things together. All of the customer reviews are true - "Great tool, but it's a royal pain in the ass to assemble." And it for all the world IS a PITA to put together.
Crew Chief Unit said, "Why don't you go figure out why it's doing that?" It's been plaguing me all summer. Just throw the thing away, I'm tired of it, it pisses me off.
So today just now I did finally go out there and look at it.
There is an adjustment. The brushes were set way too low. I was using the adjustment handle to push the thing around to park it, and the handle was moving.
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