My 43 Year Old Lawn Mower Gave Up A Wheel 12.5.2021

I was using this mower on my own lawn yesterday. I was mowing as usual and then the wheel came off. The thing was that the metal of the body of the mower that the wheel is attached to gave out.

I knew that it would break off sooner or later, but it held for 43 years. How do I know that my lawn mower is 43 years old? Well, there is a manufacture date on a plate attached to the lawn mower, that tells me my lawn mower was manufactured in 1978.

Though I didn't buy the lawn mower in 1978. I think I bought this lawn mower sometime in mid 1980's. I know it was sometime after my grandma and my uncle died in a fire. That fire was in 1983. So sometime after that fire is when I bought the lawn mower.

So maybe the lawn mower was in a warehouse, until I bought it for about a hundred dollars.

I bought the lawn mower as I wanted to help my dad take care of my grandma's land. I would use this lawn mower to mow down the weeds of that land. This way my dad used his own lawn mower and I used my lawn mower and this way my dad an I could mow down the weeds together on my grandma's large land. She had a few acres of land.

We didn't mow all those acres but the land where the house and fruit trees and nut trees used to be.

Well, that is why I bought the lawn mower. My mom and dad eventually sold that land and monies were divided among my mom and her siblings. After those years I would just mow the lawns of the places that I lived over the years.

So it was yesterday that the metal on which the wheel was attached that gave out. As it is now I cannot reattach the wheel.

I still want to save the lawn mower as other than the wheel that broke off, still works really well for a 43 year old lawn mower.

There is a big piece of metal that broke off on the body of the mower and the only thing that I think I can do is use some J-B Weld and build up that hole in the metal with the J-B Weld stuff like a car body shop would build up a section of the body of a car with bondo.

After that I could drill a new hole for the wheel and its individual axle, nut and bolt.

I figured if I do it this way I can still use my 43 year old lawn mower as I used to use from the day I bought the lawn mower to just yesterday.

Let's end with a scripture, as it is written, A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Ecclesiastes 3:3.

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