I’m not engaged with social media.
I’ve learned recently that many people just send old mowers to the scrap metal merchant. There are also people who make a decent amount of money driving around with a truck or ute towing a tandem trailer and gathering up all the mowers out in kerbside recycling and taking bulk lots in for scrap.
It’s a real shame as there are many machines that can be revived with a simple fix or, if not, donate parts to allow others to live on. Some of these older mowers can give two lifetimes use if well maintained and the scrap value is negligible. It seems barbaric and short sighted to me but I like old mowers and I’m pretty sure that isn’t a common trait in the population.
