Yes I certainly see where you're coming from and I'd be all for it, but in saying that I strongly feel that there are way too many people within this interest that are there for all the wrong reasons. Currently the scene seems to be full of young punk flippers that are hunting these machines down and merely using them to get an instant huge financial gain out of them, on the flip side (no pun intended) there are just way too many folks that have paid way over the odds and bought one and have found they really are not devoted to these types of machines and the practises that they en-tale.
It's amazing how many out there think that you can turn a weed patch into a pristine lawn just by running a Scotty over the weeds a couple of times. When they discover that it's a lot of hard work, it suddenly gets all too hard and the machine gets relegated to being sold off in bits and pieces.
This is all quite evident by the many fresh new SB owners that have passed through these esteemed forums over the past couple of years for just a few weeks and then have just disappeared never to be heard of again.
One thing that's more so the truth and that is it's really all about the "passion for the lawn" and as such the machine is simply the vehicle that facilitates this. The mower is the romance in it all I've always said, but if you ask a greenkeeper he'll tell you that there's no romance to be gained from the mower at all. LOL !, but really it's his passion of the end result it gives after all his hard work is done. This is totally evident when he sees people wearing the wrong type of shoes on his billiard table smooth surface and he's got the dagger eyes switched on.
In saying all of the above I've been so impressed with your effort with your machine that there's a clear love for it showing right on through. The attention to detail eg. just the paint removal on the engine mounting bolts alone is what's got my faith in you.
After all this the next stage will be how progress comes along with your lawn with plenty of photos just like your machine's progress has shown.
Hopefully we'll see you in the Lawn care Sub-Forum as a major contributor, god knows we need to get that part of the forum up and firing again like it did when we first introduced it.
Cheers, BB.
PS. I'll probably give Billy Graham a run for his money if he could talk Lawn Mowers.
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