The steel base on my Rover has been slowly corroding away. I have big corrosion cracks heading away from the handle anchor points. I'd love to replace the base as the engine is still strong see below for how strong! Any ideas on sourcing a replacement steel base?
I had my other Honda mower stolen recently along with some other equipment. I'm reviewing what to replace it all with at present. There will be some more posts asking for opinions on that.
I used the Honda for a big yard (3 hours normally with a Honda HRU196D and a single tank of fuel.) The insurance company has been mucking me around so I thought I would give the Rover a go even though the grass was pretty long. It took me 10 pulls to start (seems to be a common problem) although if used more often it is 3 or 4 pulls normally. It took me 5 hours to mow, but the extra time was mostly a 2nd pass to tidy up the cut. The Suzuki was on the governor most of the time so sucked through around 2.2 tanks of fuel, but did not miss a beat. I broke the pull cord and had to replace that half way through. The mower has done a lot of work. My only regret is that they were not making the alloy base version when I bought mine. The thing I liked about mowing with it was the light weight compared to the Honda. I normally feel a bit wasted after 3 hours mowing, but after 5 hours with this old rover, I was actually feeling better than I normally do.
Greg
