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Have you tried here?

https://www.ereplacementparts.com/lawn-boy-lawn-mower-parts-c-166797_167463.html

You don't think the battery will expire in a couple years?

Thanks HH,
I may have been barking up the wrong tree if the engine is possibly Honda.
I will get my model #/year this evening and see what I can find on the site.
I know it's a Silver Series, 6.5 HP but need a year or model # to get going.

Thanks again!

The best ones I have found are propelled by someone else

Rock chuck hit the nail on the head. Cost is less than most, and Troybuilt do a fine job. Gave my eight year old one, to a grandson, and bought a new one this week. Half the price as many and they do a great job.

I have 15 years on my Honda and going strong. Would go Honda again if/when it dies. Bought a Toro electric as a backup last year. It works ok but doesn't bag near as well as the Honda. I have 9-10k sq ft of lawn and wouldn't want electric as my primary mower.

Good question. This is our third year with this machine and the battery is doing fine. In fact, I set the battery on the shelf last October, fully charged. After six months of dormancy, I pulled it down last week to run the mower I figured the battery would be at half-charge at best. No, the battery was fully charged. I couldn't believe a battery could set up that long and not lose any charge.

I have zero complaints about this badass machine and it has just as much power as our old 5.5 HP Briggs and Stratton.

The aecret is to grease the transmission via the grease zerk.

This will be the 4th year on our eGo 21" walk behind, and when it dies, I'll get another electric. I is as powerful as the 9hp Troybilt that it replaced, and hassle free, Ditto in the electric weed whacker. But I still use a Cub gas whacker with the brush cutting blade.
RB

That was my last Lawn Boy. 1999 model year. Absolutely bulletproof unit.

I replaced it because the mower deck was rusted out from the bottom in the back, and it would spit grass clippings onto the person walking behind it.

Is the biggest advantage to the electric - simply not buying gas or are they lighter/faster in anyway? How do they handle bagging?

I need to trash my Ariens and am not opposed to electric but I also don't really mind buying gas either. I mow my lawn 2x on a tank of gas, takes about 35 mins each to do it. Not a big field or anything.

The Kobalt comes with a 6 AH battery. A new one costs $360. If you don't need one to run that long, a 4 AH is $250.

The bagger works just fine and can be set either as a side bagger or a back begger. I live in a very rural area and our lawn is a feral lawn; a lotta grass but boocoo weeds and stuff. I don't bag the cuttings, just leave them lay. The biggest advantage is no pull start and no gas to pour; just pop in the batteries and go. If I'm out gallivanting around, my wife has no problems with cutting the lawns -- we have one at the house and one over at the guest cabin. The mower weighs 60 pounds so it stays on the ground without being a gut buster putting it away.
RB

Another vote for battery operated. I have a Toro bout 4 years old and going strong.

Teal,
I got our first one (2010 or so) so my wife didn't have to deal with gas while I was working 8 months away from home, spring thru fall. Small suburban yards. Haven't gone back to gas since, our "lawn", such as it is, is a small one also. Mine bags well enough, I let ours grow pretty high so I have to empty the bag a couple of times per mowing usually. Lotta times I just let it mulch and stay on the lawn too.

Ours is a 40V Black and Decker, I'd look into an 80V if I was in the market for a new one though.

No gas to deal with, no smell of exhaust on my clothes and in my beard when the wind is blowing toward me, and quiet. No need for hearing protection (yes, I wear it around power equipment, I can still hear!)

If I had a larger lawn I'd likely just get a gas riding mower and use it on our little 1 acre pasture too.

I'm just looking at a 40V for mine and boy have they gone up in price in the last year or two.

Let's Go Brandon

Am I the only married person[here] whose wife can still pull start a gas push mower?

Askin for a friend.

My daughter started mowing our lawn with the Lawn Boy when she was fourteen!

Thanks - good to know. Maybe I'll give them a more serious thought.

My girlfriend can't crank a gasoline lawnmower, that is the main reason we went to the Kobalt.

On our old Briggs and Stratton, there is a safety lever next to the handle. Let go of the handle to move a branch out of the way, and the mower shuts off. A good safety feature. But, a PITA. Every time the mower shuts off you have to re crank it. So I just wired the safety lever to the handle, so now there is no safety lever. Convenient, but dangerous.

The Kobalt has the same safety lever, so when you have to walk away from the machine for a minute, let go and it shuts off. Come back, depress the lever and it starts right back up. The girlfriend loves it. Now, I can sit on the porch and drink a beer and watch her mow the lawn.

It is powerful! And it runs about 90 minutes on a charge. I don't know about bagging, we don't use a bag.




Nervous about mowing a steep embankment, because gasoline will run out of the machine? It could catch fire.
There is no gas.
Engine oil will run out, and you might blow the engine.
There is no oil.
Tired of cleaning air filters?
There is no air filter.