[Hillcountry]

Originally Posted by Biggd

Personally I think Husqvarna has gone the way of many others and is now making crap, IMO. I had a Poulan lawn mower for over 15 years that always started and never gave me any issues but it began to burn oil and smoke so I thought it was time to retire it even though it still worked fine. I bought a new Husqvarna which was very similar to my Poulan. After sitting the first winter I had to **** with it to get it going.
This new lawn mower is suppose to be maintenance free. No oil changes ever, it has no oil drain plug. No primer pump like on my old mower. I already HATE IT!

I have a Husqvarna push mower too...the high end one with the HONDA motor which I suspected would be trouble free. It’s in the shop now because it won’t start without a hundred pulls...something that gets old when you’re old.
We cleaned a mouse nest out of it this spring and it still hard to start. Hopefully the small engine guy we brought it to will find more mouse shenanigans when he gets deeper into it. He tried it when I dropped it off and said “something is holding the auto-choke open.”