The mowers in the rack , not in order are ,
SupaSwift industrial with echo 2 stroke ,SupaSwift under the Industrial mower it's deck is an end cap off a hot water tank
A HG palmer 4 stroke ,a couple of 4 stroke Ambassador mowers , Victa Sheerline .a few sixties Corvette and Cortina mowers,
Granberg Parksman 4 stroke stainless base mower,a couple of sixties 4 stroke Turner mowers,Victa 24,a couple Victa 18 mowers,
a Wolf Garden with Kawasaki 2 stroke ,Masport with 2 stroke motor.
Norm, I bought a ride on mower from a guy that went to scrap yards buying complete ride on mowers for $50. each, then he would
sell them as non runners for min $150. ,he also had tons of push mowers that he fixed and sold , he paid $5. each for them.
A long time ago I would buy V8 motors from importers for $240. and just clean the outside and sell for $500. and they sold
quick. I kept one of those engines that I sold recently for $2500. and it needed a full rebuild.
If I spend 4 hours driving I would normally come back with at least 20 mowers.When I was in Melton I saw tons of good
mowers in hard rubbish but I wasn't looking to collect anything.
MowingManiac , sometimes I will give away a good running repaired mower or sell one for $10. or $20. just because I
don't want to see a rare perfectly good working mower thrown out but usually any thing that's not rare and I can't sell
for $50. even if I'd given the mower a service I would rather get rid of the mower straight away by scrapping the alloy base
and scrap steel .The mowers I can't get $50. for are good mowers with no damage but a lot of people I've sold mowers to
aren't interested in mowers that are more than 5 years old. At one stage I could buy a new ex demo GMC mower with a Briggs
from a shop for $100.
I don't really cut grass using a catcher unless testing a mower then I would tip the cut grass back on the ground so
I don't really need any rear discharge mowers ,when I started collecting mowers I would just collect side discharge mowers
but over the years I've kept a few of the harder to find rear discharge mowers mostly from the sixties and have kept some seventies
rear discharge mowers, so I don't have the spare time to fix and sell mowers for $50. or less better to scrap them , I also started off
collecting 2 stroke mowers only but have kept some older 4 strokes.
Pool room mowers I'd say are first model mowers like model 1 Rotomo ,first Turner ,Victa auto,first SupaSwift or can just be an
old mower that you don't see many of . I've basically just scrapped all the mowers that I could easily buy as a non runners for $10.
Cheers
Max.
