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I currently have a craftman with a Honda engine self propelled with high back wheels. It's too damn fast for my little town house postage stamp. I'm gonna dump this one on Craigslist and want a PUSH mower. Big fan of the Honda engines. Seems like a number of folks incorporate the Honda engine into their own decks. Husqvarna, Lawn Boy and I'm sure others have basically what I'm looking for. Is there any meaningful difference in these decks vs say a genuine Honda deck?

I had a Husqvarna push mower with a Honda engine. It was fine but wouldn't bag my super lawn clippings as well as I'd like so gave it to my mom and bought a Honda push mower.


Same engine(I think) but different decks.

The Honda is maybe 10-20lbs heavier and also bags way better, just feels more solid. The Husky will be fine for most grass and also pushes easier.



Trying to remember price, probably $50 more for the Honda?

The Toro mowers get good reviews. I'd not be scared to buy one.

The steering wheel zero turn Toro is the chit, drink beer and mow!
(just don't back into daylight basement windows....)


Uber fast blade speed, mine will vacuum up (dry)mini-dog turds. Hopefully the engine lasts for a long time.

It's so wet out here I can't even get a mower to suck up clippings a week after the last rain.

Nothing worse than trying to mow or swath wet grass.



Super douche just showed up here in the desert. Rain/snow, we'll take it!

I have a Husqvarna self-propelled deck with a Honda engine. Mowers have a very hard and sometimes short life here, but that one has been studly... have bent a couple blades but never sheared the shear key, which I used to do regularly on another mower.

But-- the front-wheel-drive on the Husq deck was total crap. I finally cut it out with a sawzall. Now it's a push mower.

My Honda motor did have an ominous clatter under load the other day, timed right with the RPM's.... hoping it was something loose somewhere and not the rod about to come through the cylinder wall.

I got a little postage stamp yard too.

I bought the $150 model at Home Depot,...cheapest one they had.

It's actually a decent mower for 150 bucks. 3.5 HP Briggs motor,..20" deck.

I'll run it until it blows then go buy another $150 mower.

i pay a yard guy.

Money bags. It would cost me $700 a month.

I have had honda and Toro mowers. In my experience the Honda was a much better mower.

160 a month for me, but i'd rather spend a sat or sun fishing or at the ranch instead of doing yard work.

It is unusual in my experiance to have a self-propelled mower that did not give one a "push" option--or at least a "ground speed" adjustment.

Yours have neither?

A Honda powered Craftsman has worked for 6-7 years so far for me.
I should clean the carb so it'd idle a bit better but it runs fine at Ramming Speed so, na, I'll run it a while longer.

I have a Honda with the plastic deck (pex?). It's small wheel, rear wheel drive. It's the Honda 2-blade system. It's the cheapest in the line of plastic decks. I run the schitt out of it. Cuts great, runs great. You can bag or mulch. Oh, you can adjust the self-propelled speed also.

It obviously had the ability to not engage the self prop but you are fighting the gearing. Free balling ain't possible.

I have the Husky 4wd with Honda power and it is superb. Only ding if you want to call it that is you have to let go of the drive and push it the last few inches so the drive disengages.

Its been a good one and when it goes TU i will buy the same again.

The push model Husqvarna with the high back wheels seems to be winner.

I'm running a Honda powered Craftsman and have never had a bit of trouble with it. Change the oil every year, tune up every other year, and sharpen the blade as needed. That's it and it going strong after many years of use. I did somehow manage to break one of the wheels, but other than that, nothing has ever happened to it and it starts every time.

I have been a home owner since 1983. I have had two mowers in that time span. The first was a 19" Snapper laid to rest in 1997. Had I not hit a clothesline stub and bent the motor shaft, after which I beat back straight as I could get it, the Honda would likely still be going. It finally vibrated until it cracked the deck beyond repair.

It was replaced with a John Deere 21". Both of them were/are push mowers, no self propulsion.