Hi Everyone,
I thought I'd better start here...
I'm a truck driver with a love of of small engines (don't get me wrong, I love big diesels), especially powered gardening tools.
I've been playing around with old Outboards for a while (mainly 4 and 6hp Johnson/Evinrudes, and I have a 40hp Bigtwin)
and I used to race 1/5th scale RC cars (25cc Zenoh two stroke).
Just today however I found something I've been wanting for a while... A powered Barrel Mower. It had been put on the footpath to be dumped (it was half buried under old furniture and junk), and I for some unknowen reason was driving down the street it was in... it was actually quite a lot out of my way, and I wasn't even looking for anything, just going for a drive I guess. So now I have a Victa Imperial 16" with a Tecumseh HK30 4-stroke engine.
Uun getting back home with my *new* mower, I did some initial checks, and figured that the motor had a good chance of starting without too much fiddling around. And it did. The rest of the mower isn't too bad, and it more or less still cuts grass.
So now I'm planing on pulling the whole thing down and restoring/refreshing it.
In the meantime, I'll spend some time looking around on here and seeing if there are going to be any surprises in store for me... I hope it should be pretty straight forward, as all my other restoration projects have been. (this is the first mower I have had a go at restoring... )
Cheers
Andrew
Last edited by CyberJack; 07/02/16 10:21 AM. Reason: Topic heading.
