# Lorday's lawn mower thread.
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161
**Category:** eBay finds
**Created:** [October 28, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161 "2013-10-28T01:57:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@heavymetal](https://fixed.org.au/u/heavymetal)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/21 "2013-10-28T17:00:19Z")
Lorday is the lawn mower guru at my local bunnings. I’m taking his word for this, because I’ve never actually seen him there.
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### Author:  [@droz](https://fixed.org.au/u/droz)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/22 "2013-10-28T17:20:09Z")
> [@snowflake](#):
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> mower.org.au
Better than buyacell.org.au.
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### Author:  [@DaFROG](https://fixed.org.au/u/DaFROG)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/23 "2013-10-28T18:53:32Z")
> [@Lorday](#):
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> I’d assume its Victa’s 2 stroke crankshaft? If so that’s awesome. The only Aussie made engine on a lawnmower I know of and now you’re telling me its better than a race car? Awesome.
This was in 2002. no idea which engine or anything we only heat treated the cranks.
I don’t know that it would be better than a race car but you could be more confident that it would actually achieve all its design parameters. we actually sacrificed one crank per batch for testing, which is a bit hard to do for motorsport stuff that comes in batches of 1 😛
This was my introduction to vickers microhardness traverses… ahhh memories
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### Author:  [@tim](https://fixed.org.au/u/tim)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/24 "2013-10-29T18:18:17Z")
Blakey - my Grandpa has a Scott Bonnar 40 series reel mower that goes alright. My lawn is not worthy though.
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### Author:  [@alexb618](https://fixed.org.au/u/alexb618)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/25 "2013-10-29T18:35:22Z")
my old man still runs a scott bonnar, it is sick
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### Author:  [@etomato](https://fixed.org.au/u/etomato)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/26 "2013-10-29T18:38:33Z")
My lawnmower looks like this:
I got it off ebay for $100. Put some Singer Oil in the oil ports, got a mate to sharpen the blades, and it works like a charm.
It’s stamped “1918” so if when it hits it’s hundredth birthday I’m going to throw a garden party to celebrate.
[edit: I wish I was hipster-trolling alexb618, but this is actually true.]
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### Author:  [@alexb618](https://fixed.org.au/u/alexb618)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/27 "2013-10-29T19:13:46Z")
dont make me go around there and take a pic of dad’s mower
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### Author:  [@Bigadz](https://fixed.org.au/u/Bigadz)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/28 "2013-10-29T21:58:34Z")
Just saw this, thought it was fitting for here.
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### Author:  [@foetusfoetus](https://fixed.org.au/u/foetusfoetus)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/29 "2013-10-29T23:37:43Z")
I hope he put a saddle on the seat post tube before he sat on it…
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### Author:  [@Lorday](https://fixed.org.au/u/Lorday)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/30 "2013-10-30T16:57:20Z")
> [@heavymetal](#):
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> Lorday is the lawn mower guru at my local bunnings. I’m taking his word for this, because I’ve never actually seen him there.
Proof enough for you?!
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### Author:  [@dead\_legs](https://fixed.org.au/u/dead_legs)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/31 "2013-10-30T18:00:19Z")
I don’t know what a Power Garden is but I think i need one
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### Author:  [@JLN\_not\_ZLTN](https://fixed.org.au/u/JLN_not_ZLTN)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/32 "2013-10-30T18:29:57Z")
> [@dead\_legs](#):
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> I don’t know what a Power Garden is but I think i need one
I always thought it was some obscure genre of music.
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### Author:  [@gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/u/gink_04)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/33 "2013-10-30T19:48:16Z")
tate still for sale? could you hold on to it till mid/late november??? would be keen.
also lorday im looking at getting a mitre saw, jig saw and a sander for some projects ive been meaning to start for about 2 years now.
i already have a pretty decent bosch drill. ([1191VSRK 1191VSRK | Bosch](http://www.boschtools.com/Products/Tools/Pages/BoschProductDetail.aspx?pid=1191VSRK))
i dont want anything cordless.
was looking at the bosch/mikita/dewalt stuff.
any recomendations?? that wont blow the budget out completely?? ($400 max on the mitre saw $150 max on the jigsaw and sander)
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### Author:  [@dfunkt](https://fixed.org.au/u/dfunkt)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/34 "2013-10-30T20:10:18Z")
> [@gink\_04](#):
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> tate still for sale? could you hold on to it till mid/late november??? would be keen.
It is still for sale, Gene, and I can hang onto it til end of Nov.
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### Author:  [@tim](https://fixed.org.au/u/tim)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/35 "2013-10-30T20:16:26Z")
> [@gink\_04](#):
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> tate still for sale? could you hold on to it till mid/late november??? would be keen.
>
> also lorday im looking at getting a mitre saw, jig saw and a sander for some projects ive been meaning to start for about 2 years now.
> i already have a pretty decent bosch drill. ([1191VSRK 1191VSRK | Bosch](http://www.boschtools.com/Products/Tools/Pages/BoschProductDetail.aspx?pid=1191VSRK))
> i dont want anything cordless.
> was looking at the bosch/mikita/dewalt stuff.
> any recomendations?? that wont blow the budget out completely?? ($400 max on the mitre saw $150 max on the jigsaw and sander)
I know this probably doesn’t help with the mitre saw but the new cordless stuff from dewalt/milwaukee/hitachi etc - the 18v stuff - is sick. Big initial investment but my experience is once you go cordless you don’t look back…(unless you want some serious drilling or grinding power).
I have also used the 12v stuff (milwaukee) - an impact driver - and it was well up to the task.
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### Author:  [@devhay](https://fixed.org.au/u/devhay)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/36 "2013-10-30T20:45:09Z")
Dewalt 18v cordless kit 4 lyf.
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### Author:  [@HLC](https://fixed.org.au/u/HLC)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/37 "2013-10-30T21:03:15Z")
> [@devhay](#):
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> Dewalt 18v cordless kit 4 lyf.
This.
Also Makita 18v is excellent too.
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### Author:  [@hoonz](https://fixed.org.au/u/hoonz)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/38 "2013-10-30T21:14:50Z")
> [@tim](#):
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> …once you go cordless you don’t look back…
cordless.org.au
Cordless is just so…zen. All the hipsters are doing it I hear.
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### Author:  [@hoonz](https://fixed.org.au/u/hoonz)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/39 "2013-10-30T21:19:20Z")
Saw a cordless Milwaukee mastic gun once when I was a site manager in London. The ‘masticman’ dude reckoned he got RSI from years using the manual mastic guns. A pretty well paid job that. Paid by the metre and they’re only laying it on for a minute or 2. He had an assortment of tapered timber persuaders/wipers/doovas and a spray bottle with water/detergent mix to tidy up the dodgy bits.
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### Author:  [@tim](https://fixed.org.au/u/tim)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/lordays-lawn-mower-thread/63161/40 "2013-10-30T21:50:03Z")
> [@devhay](#):
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> Dewalt 18v cordless kit 4 lyf.
I own Milwaukee and have used Dewalt…Dewalt wins imo.
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