My darling wife, I love her and bless her heart, but boy is she hard on the equipment. Over the past 20 years I have been through more mowers than you can shake a stick at. You are saying to yourself well that's simple quite buying junk mowers. Well it's certainly not that simple, haha. She can turn a new mower into a smoldering pile of rubble in a matter of minutes. How does this happen you ask, I think only the lord knows. It is mostly bent blades, broken spindles, and snapped belts, but eventually they all succumb and there is no more fix left and not enough good metal to weld back together.
The cause of this of course is that she is not paying attention and treats every little riding mower like it is a brunch hog. I have tried time and time again to explain this to her and she just gets angry with me, you know the fella that has to fix it.
I of course love her to pieces and will keep patching up the poor things, but goodness gracious. The solution is to keep her off of the darned things, but against better judgement she always suckers me into letting her back on them.
Today's victim is a john deere f525 greens mower I bought from the neighbor boy. He is in the 4h small engine club and fixes them up and flips them. So I bought this thing a few months ago with all new belts and everything was great. She says let's tag team the grass and I want to try the new mower. Begrudgingly, I jump on the little rider and set her up with the new one. Me and the little man are cutting the front when I look over and see her using the push mower. I knew right away what happened, catastrophic failure..... all the nice new deck belt, one is snapped, one is stretched beyond serviceable use.
Oh well, I will fix it and it will be good until she tries to help again. She needs to keep to her push mower, she doesn't break them as they are cheap and easy to fix.
That's my rant for today, I love her and she IS trying to help, I think.