(August 1, 2019 at 9:03 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(August 1, 2019 at 8:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: $1,400 dollars isn't fucking cheap. And I bought it brand new. And used it very little.Home Depot and Lowes don't sell the best grade mowers. You have to go to the manufacturer or you are essentially getting the 'builder grade' of mowers and other lawn equipment.
I don't give a fuck if someone thinks that is "cheap" for a mower. That is not cheap.
$1,400 should get you 5 to 10 years of use, with tons of abuse.
One tiny pin, not a baseball bat, not a crowbar, but a fucking sliver of metal.
An earring stud that sits in your ear and does nothing makes sense. But that pin on my mower was responsible for keeping the tension between the gear shift handle and the cable to the gear box. That that should not wear out over 4 uses in a 2 year period.
And in most mechanical things, shit sometimes breaks. It happens.
You also probably would have had better luck with someone who has a business servicing mowers...not some guy that changes parts and oil at Lowes.
Bravo on flaming Trump because your mower broke. Are you sure it wasn't the whole GOP or the NRA?
It isn't just Mowers. Giant corporations always look for the cheapest material to bulk manufacture anything.
But as far as buying mom and pop shop instead of bulk corporations, even those mom and pop shops sell global products.
No, "shit" does not happen. It was bad design. Just like the Max Jet 737 computer program flaw.
Corporate CEOs drive the designers and engineers to do everything as cheaply as possible.
It only takes a tiny part of ANYTHING to fuck up everything else, no matter how much you pay for it.
