5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2014
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | I've talked a few times in the past about how frugal I am, or other people might just say I'm cheap, but I've had great luck with lawnmowers. |
0:17.0 | And quite a few years ago, I found a lawnmower at a yard sale for 25 bucks, and I ended up using it. |
0:23.6 | I had it for about four years. It always ran great. It finally broke down on me, and I had to get another one. |
0:29.6 | I found another one at a yard sale for $35, and I had it for over six years. |
0:35.6 | And when we moved down here to Nashville, it ended up getting stolen. |
0:39.8 | So I needed a new lawnmower. |
0:41.7 | And I looked in the paper, and I saw that there was one for sale for $25. |
0:46.2 | And I called the guy up, and I said, man, will you hold it for me? |
0:49.4 | I'll come down and buy it. |
0:50.8 | And he said, sure thing. |
0:52.0 | So I drove about 30 miles south of Nashville and went out to this |
0:56.4 | farmer's house it's out in the middle of nowhere and when I got there he was a nice guy and he |
1:00.6 | invited me into his garage and I looked around on the walls of his garage and everything was immaculate |
1:07.4 | all of his tools were in the right place and it was obvious that he was one of |
1:11.8 | these guys that just knows how to fix everything. He takes care of everything, does all the |
1:16.9 | preventative maintenance, and I thought, man, this is going to be a good lawnmower. So I bought it, |
1:21.9 | and I brought it home, and this is the best lawnmower I've ever had I paid $25 for it it always runs at the beginning of |
1:30.7 | every spring it starts on the first pull every year I had five years in a row of it starting on |
1:38.1 | the first pull so the other day I got the lawnmower out it'd been a long winter it's the coldest |
1:43.1 | winter we've had since I lived |
1:44.4 | here. And I was just thinking, man, is it going to start? You know, those of you who tried to |
1:49.7 | start lawnmowers know that, you know, sometimes it's not that easy. But I got it out, pulled it |
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