My SIL has no brain

SIL calls me up and says he was mowing and it made a loud bang and it stopped and now won't run. I asked if it had oil in it? No hesitation on his answer. Yes! I tell him I will take a look tomorrow when we are over there for the grandsons birthday party. An hour later he calls me and asks if I can meet him with my trailer at Home Depot because he is buying a new riding mower. Sure. I meet him there and he buys a new riding mower and I haul it home for him and I then haul his old rider to my house so I can look at it. Sure enough, he ran it out of oil and now it has no compression so it has either a broken rod or a hole in the piston. It WAS a nice old mower. Nothing fancy but it ran nice. Did I mention it was my back up mower and I gave it to him? He wants me to see if I can fix it so he can give it to his friend and his friend can just pay me for the repairs. I'm not sure I like that but told him I would look at it this winter as I have too many projects going on right now. Guess he wanted a new mower and he got his wish to the tune of $1700.00. He has more money than sense. Did I mention that this mower was the most filthy thing I have ever seen. I doubt he ever cleaned it OR checked the oil. Dumb a__.

Edited by Dave H - 01 Jul 2019 at 7:08am

I usedta have a brother like that. Dad would tell people “If it aint proof don’t let the oldest one borrow anything. He’ll run the wheels off of a steel wheeled tricycle.” I was always taught to treat something that belonged to someone else better than your own things and earned a reputation of returning things in better condition than when I borrowed anything.

DMiller wrote: Says something of the old Briggs engines..

This one was an old Murray with a 12.5hp Briggs in it. Nothing fancy but got the job done. I looked up on the net for parts availability and was surprised to find most internal parts were still available. At least he didn't blow up one of the tractors like he could even figure out how to start one.😜

I just got in from listening to the neighbors John Deere. She started it up and I can hear rod knock and I said to shut it down so we can check the oil. She says oh I just put a bunch in it.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😬🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

Regardless price I will get I haul the junk to scrap more than not. Had two old mowers wife could NOT leave at MIL's house after she passed, both were junk, finally gave them to a kid that tinkers and he has one going using the other for parts for his own use. Another from Wife's Aunt's estate I hauled from the barn with all rubber and plastic off got $20 for as scrap, was just glad be rid of it.

GARY(OH/IN) wrote: My EX BIL buys a new riding mower, some cheap basic thing and blows the engine first Sat. morning use. Apparently the drain plug was loose and vibrated out so he lost all the oil in the yard and BANG. Same idiots that bought a pony when they live in town and keep it in the garage on a concrete floor. Pony finally dies from whatever. They want to bring it to my farm for burial. A hand dig. I said send to fertilizer plant and they say no it was a pet. I say you never gave a damn about it when it was alive why care now? They thought I was a terrible person as usual. Wife lets BIL brings to farm to bury. Gets tired real quick and throws brush on pony and lights it afire. When I came home from work rib cage was all that was left. Ah those were the days!

I hadda bury a dead mule, once, had the ASV RC 30, and a 30" post hole auger, hadda drill 3 holes, about 5' deep, drop in dead mule, and cover up with the bucket.  Good thing no one was around, as the feets was stickin up, about a foot under the surface...

It is amazing how long these threads go on.   At least to me it is amazing.

Ya just never know where a thread is gonna go........funny stuff.😆