Yard Machines 11A-414C000 21-Inch 158cc Briggs & Stratton 500 Series Gas Powered Side Discharge/Mulch/Bag Lawn Mower

Let me start by saying that this is the only mower I have ever owned. It has "faithfully" served me for the past year and a half. So for me to be rating it this low show tell you something. Now I'm still a little new to this lawn care business, but I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have to restart my mower 50 times just to finish my 1/3 acre yard.

This mower will choke on anything, in any configuration- with the mulch bag, without the mulch bag, and even with the mulch discharge door held open (in what I call Death Mode- in that any rocks or hard objects it picks up will quickly lodge itself within your solar plexus). The bag is mounted such that the mulch fills about a third of it and starts to clump, jamming the blade and stalling the motor. Then of course you'd have to kick it over to loosen the molten core of grass clippings. But here's where it gets exciting. You're really on the clock here because the mower is SPILLING GAS ONTO THE GROUND!! That sizzling sound and...Read more