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Yard-Man 12A-978Q701 5.5 HP Deluxe 21-Inch 3N1 Self Propelled Mower
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Yard-Man 12A-978Q701 5.5 HP Deluxe 21-Inch 3N1 Self Propelled Mower
- 5.5 HP Honda OHV commercial engine
- 21" deep dome mulching deck
- Triple care system includes rear bag, mulch and side discharge
- 6-speed rear wheel drive
Yard-Man 12A-978Q701 5.5 HP Deluxe 21-Inch 3N1 Self Propelled Mower
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- Publisher: Yard-Man
- Label: Yard-Man
- Studio: Yard-Man
- Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews
- Sales Rank in Tools: #110871
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: fraud 2004-08-24
Comment: the mower arrived in a box that had been opened, probably by many people, I don't know. the unit was listed as new, which it looked, as far as the lawnmower itself. the reason it was new was that it wouldn't start. in fact I think so many people had been sucked into buying this unit that the starter rope wouldn't even retract when I started to try myself for the first time. clearly this is false advertising. compound that with the explicit instructions that it cannot be returned and you have a full blown fraud scheme. is Amazon listening? this was a unit listed in the amazon store section, not an item listed by an individual, so clearly amazon should step up and take this back and destroy it when they get it back. this is not helping their image one bit. in fact I may never shop with them again if this gets any worse.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Awesome Mower 2004-08-02
Comment: After reading reviews I decided to go with this rear wheel drive self propelled mower over the less expensive front wheel drive versions and have to say I am very pleased with everything about this mower. It shipped for free and arrived via UPS in only about 10 days. I would recommend this mower to anyone wanting a quality lawn mower that they want to last for several years.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: hard worker 2004-06-25
Comment: I bought this mower 6 years ago, my son and i mowed lawns for the son to have extra money. we needed a better mower and found this one to be onsale. we liked the rear wheel drive, as we found that with front wheel drives as the bagger fills the weight tends to lift the front, then you have to lift the handle bars to get traction, not with this modle. this mower is the older briggs 6hp and has been worked to death(with proper maintenance)and a lot of parts have been changed or removed but, it is still working and i will buy another one!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Rear Drive Bliss (and it now has a Honda Engine!) 2004-06-09
Comment: I bought one of these mowers three years ago when I saw it rated as a "Best Buy" by Consumer Reports. There are still a few reviews on line (...). At the time, it came with a B&S Intek OHV engine. We just moved into a new home with a "seeded lawn." Turned out there were more rocks and clumps than grass. The terrain was quite hilly--too much so to use a graden tractor. A front drive walk-behind would be useless prompting me to purchase one of these rear drives. It takes about 4 hours to cut my lawn. Through all the "hard times" (waiting for the grass to grow and rocks to settle) and my mower still starts on the first pull! Now that my second mower has arrived, I am going to install the last of my replacement parts (including the belt, blade and baffle-the plastic part that surronds the blade underneath the mower) in the old unit. In three years, the only part that really needed replacing was the left rear wheel (which you must buy from MTD) which I did a few weeks ago. The wheel is not expensive so order two (if you purchase one of these mowers and are ordering parts). The mower drives through that rim and it will fail eventually (mine did after two years but other than a wobbly wheel, it still performed fine). Order a spare blade and belt while you are at it (have the model and serial number handy when you call the 800 number on the mower). Now to the new mower. Like the last one, this mower is also made in Canada. It has to travel a long way to get to its destination and, as others have said, MTD really needs to reengineer their boxes if they hope to capture the internet sales market for its mowers. Mine came in fine, however. Nothing was damaged or missing. I rolled it out of the box, extended the handle, put on the bagger chute, added oil and gas, connected the spark plug, set the choke, and WHAM!!! It started on the first pull! The choke automically cuts itself off (a nice feature). Honda engine has less HP than the B&S but you would never know it. This is a great little motor that I understand sells for $200 by itself! Well, now I own two of these guys. I will use the old one for the rough places in the back yard and "parade" the new one in the front. Now my wife or kids can help and my lawn duty should be more manageable. While I would never compare this mower to a real Honda, I will just say that I bought two of these for the price of one Honda. Bottom line is that I am very satisfied with this mower. Yard-man may have had some problems (based on what I have read in Consumers Reports) with self-propelled models but I bet they were all front drivers. The drive on this model is terrific. I guess that is why they have been making it for so long. By the way, the mower has a two year warranty which I never even had to pull out.
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Yard-Man 12A-978Q701 5.5 HP Deluxe 21-Inch 3N1 Self Propelled Mower
