On Apr 18, 8:49*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:26:28 -0700 (PDT), Harry K





wrote:
On Apr 18, 8:20*pm, IGot2P wrote:
On 4/18/2012 9:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:03:56 -0400, Sum Ting Wong
*wrote:

Troy Bilt is prolly one of the better Chinese brands.

Don't worry about the trade deficit, your grandchildren can pay it off.

You mean we should buy American? *The last John Deere I bought had a
Kawasaki engine.

My John Deere has a BS engine but the whole mower/tractor is junk. I
want to purchase a MTD with a Honda engine....seems like the best
combination.

For the best mower buy Honda. *Of course that is not US made.

Harry K

Don't bet on it, Harry. Interesting to observe, NO Honda Lawn Mowers
are built in Japan.

From Honda Power's web-site: *Honda manufactures approximately 500
thousand lawnmowers per year in the United States, France, Australia,
China and Italy*, and supplies them to Australia and other countries
in addition to the two largest markets: North America and Europe.
Local production began at an early stage, starting in the United
States in 1984 and in France in 1986,

Interesting. I bought my first one 40 years ago, wore the rubbers off
the drive wheels twice, replaced one spark plug and a clutch cable.
Still usign it as my trim mower (bought at rider 5 years ago), still
starts first pull every time. Of course that is the "good" Honda
engine, not the cheapened version you see on non-Honda badged
products.
That may have been Japanese origin. Dunno if Honda had any production
facitlty for mowers here at that time - probably did as Honda bikes
were everywhere.

I bought another one back in the late 90s figuring it to replace the
origintl "when it wers out". Used it twice and it is now mothballed
in the shed.

Harry K