daniel

Oh no, I couldn't take another pre-Halloween storm...  The snow doesn't bother me, but the trees around here cannot handle it with all their leaves still on, I literally just finished splitting all the wood from last years early storm! 

I've always heard "if it has fluid in it, it has to breath".  I need to get around to extending the breather hoses up on my jeep for the axles and transmission before the great floods come at the end of the world in December :)

-Dan

I gassed up and used the SRM 225 this weekend after buying it two years ago and letting it sit in my garage.. (my lawn never got quite neat enough to require a trim)  No complaints, started right up, plenty powerful if a tad heavy for my scrawny arms...  Not sure what else can be said about it.  My echo blower has also been doing very well for the past two years of use.  Good luck.

-dan

Just wanted to update, thanks for the advice, put on a new plug yesterday (and new rear baffle, what a pain that was), and it started on first pull :)

I noticed in the manual, when you tip your lawnmower on the side, always tip it with sparkplug up (to prevent getting it wet?). I wonder if that contributed to the problem, because I never paid much attention to which way I tipped it whenever the drive belt would come off or something would get jammed in there.  Good to know!

So after three hours of cursing and kicking the mower, I am ready to go with a new baffle, new skirt, new starter cord handle, freshly sharpened blade, and new sparkplug.  Now if only I could grow some nice grass instead of all this moss and weeds.

Thanks,
Dan

Looked up the google cache and pulled out the original source of the video:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73e_1192001762

Should work.  Really Interesting.