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Originally Posted by JSH
My Toro SmartStow mower works fine with E10. Manual says using E10 is fine. I top off as needed during the mowing season and run it dry before storing for the winter. 3 years and counting. Don't buy a mower from a company too cheap to pay a few cents to make it E10 compatible.
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Given how little gasoline is used over a calendar year, ethanol-gasoline is of no benefit. A Toro is a nice mower. I’d stick to pure gasoline with a stabilizing additive.
As mowers aren’t optional in Texas (maybe unused 1 or 2 weeks; and then used twice-weekly at least four months) it has always paid to buy quality.
Probably the best walk-behind ever sold in the States was handled by Sears in the early 1990s: KUBOTA.
A friend is the power equipment business. He’s bought two the last ten years. Figures that’s a lifetime supply at our age (another quarter century).
Some years ago he custom-built me a SNAPPER 21’ without all the irritating safety devices. I added just about every available accessory. Great machine. Too late in the day for a Robyn/Subaru commercial engine, but the B&S was good enough.
The mower previous to that I had put into service in 1973. A JACOBSEN Turbo-Vent 21’. Gave it to a divorced friend in 1997. Took a few tries to start, compression was more theoretical than actual. But it would run all day after that.
Buy quality & take care of it.
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