Tractor started great but within minutes it started to stumbled and soon it would barely run it feathered the throttle and limped it home from the neighbors house and put fuel additive in the tank and tried again. It started good but within it was up to its old tricks again so this time I parked. I kept meaning to check it out but I had plent of wood stacked up so it sat for weeks. As luck would have it I ran out of wood fired it up and headed to wood pile and just as got there it was refusing to run I tried and tried soon I had worn the battery down so covered it with a tarp (it was parked in the wood pile) and left it for the night. I called the next day, it was under warranty, but it was good possibility it was frozen fuel. I'm sure that would have cost me quite small fortune. So when the weather warmed up I fired it and drove like it was new! I added fresh fuel ( hopefully winter grade) to the mix.
Before I leave the tractor subject I may as well add a few words about an invention idea I have. I cut wood often and the tractor is my companion lifting, carring and turning everything from tree lengths to scrub. I even found away to use it to neat stack a load of wood with very little effort. But in my travels I don't have a safe effective way to carry the chain saw especially when the bucket it loaded with the catch du jour. So I scouted a location that's safe and effective. I found one now I need to build a simple bracket to hold the chain saw and perhaps even some gas and oil.
I was out of wood today so instead of cutting wood I went on a scavenger hunt picking up all small pieces I could find scattered around the yard within minutes I had a bucket full and cleaned up a the yard in the process, but you'll never know it gone, like taking a bucket of sand away from the beach.
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