my lawn service biz has been extremly slow due to severe drought here in north florida. i have lots of time on my hands so i decided to pull 2 of my many lawnboys out of deep storage of 25 years. the 2 i picked are ones most likely to get used in my lawn service route. both are identical lawnboy 22261 commercial mowers with the dura-force engines. 1st one needed a new coil.(very common on duraforce) and 2nd one just a good cleaning and new primer bulb. going to run them on OMC Johnson outboard oil. both running well but no 1 is hard to start. -will change out primer bulb on it as soon as i get more new ones from ebay.
reviving lawnboys after 25 years in storage
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This is pretty cool. Kinda thought that I had seen the last of these awesome mowers.
Reminds me of this scene from the movie "Sleeper"
The benefits of using a trickle charger.
i am running 40/1 till i use up this batch of oil/gas mix -then i will go to 32/1 . i will have to have a separate gas can just for the lawnboys as everything else i run a 40/1 . i dont use exotic synth oils as i go tru at least 5 gallons a week in the lawn biz. today i got out a uber rare 22241 commercial. one year only made . these were the very last F engined commercial model. i converted it to metal walbro carb from the plastic carb years ago and it really runs fantastic now. i like this one better than the duraforce engined ones. all it needed was a new self propel cable and these are cheap on ebay now. 19$ to my door! i am debating on dragging out my M model lawnboys next. at least if i have most of the fleet working again it will make it easier to sell them as running/working machines tho id rather see these go to to a person who likes old lawnboys.
Nice to see Lawnman23's pictures. It seems like this marketplace is being dissassembled with the absolute best stuff (Lawn Boy and Honda) leaving first. I do note that they left for different reasons - Lawn Boy the company was acquired, reduced to a brand and then churned through until there was nothing left. Honda, apparently, just looked at the spreadsheets one day and determined that other business lines were structurally better.
I have had 4-5 lawnboys and they are still for me the best and most powerful mowers. Even my wife can start it.
