Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

My brother has a 8 year old Agway lawn tractor. It has a B+S 20 hp engine with hydrostatic drive, and I think a 42" mower deck.
He's taken good care of it, and he likes it.
Since I talked him into buying an exmark ZTR last year, he decided to sell the Agway mower, just because he was not using it that much anymore.
Well, the other day for some reason it would not start, so he jumped the battery with his big SUV.

Something happened, because all of a sudden it sounded like the starter was not engaging.  He took it to our local OPE shop.
they told him that he broke a plastic gear inside the starter, and that it probably was not a good idea to try to jump a little lawn tractor with a big SUV.

Anyway, they fixed the starter, and all is now well.   He sold it to our new Pastor for $400.  It stil looked pretty new, and I believe the Pastor is happy.

So I learned it is not good to jump lawn tractor batteries, I guess.......that is what trickle chargers are for.

Is this true?

Frank D.

P.S......mowed the whole yard with the exmark today for the first time this year.......good destressor.

any older tractor should be okay with a boost....

however Kohler says do not boost the fuel injected engines that they make. it will fry the computer and apparently its quite pricy.and no warranty on it cause they can tell by looking at it what you did.fries a wire off the outside i guess and a boost is the only thing that will do it.

and as far as vehicles go ,im not real fussy about using them to boost anything,stuff under the hood is just to darn expensive if somthing bad happens.and it seems to when im around 

later chris