Don't Waste Your Money! These Riding Mower Parts Will Break the Bank! AND It's My BIRTHDAY!!

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My name is Bre. I took two years of small engine repair at the local college. When I left school, I fell into a wonderful job at a local small engine shop where I worked the counter for a couple years. In 2010 my husband and I opened up our own small engine shop in central Arkansas where I am able to work alongside my family and best friends. We see over 2,000 pieces of small engine equipment every year, and answer 1,000's of small engine questions. We specialize in brands such as Briggs and Stratton, Kohler, Echo and Shindaiwa, but work everyday on MANY other brands like Stihl, Husqvarna, Honda, Craftsman, Remington, Red Max, Troy Bilt, Scag, Bad Boy, Hustler, World Lawn, Poulan, Mantis, Etc.. Hopefully, my experience I share, will save you Time, Money and Frustration in the future!
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[@Chickanic]

Thanks Ya'll for the Birthday Wishes!!! Ya'll Rock!

[@mikejerrett7354]

Happy Birthday chickanic have a great day

[@jerrycurtis2310]

We were born on the same day!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you

[@rogercamp6071]

Happy Birthday 🎉

[@skelafeti]

happy trip around the sun

[@phillmccracken4219]

Happy Birthday!

[@edgarhernandez4572]

This is exactly the information that an informed consumer needs.

[@gergemall]

Love your wisdom. They are shafting the public if they do that or they’ve done it, omg . Difficult to match on some generators and others

[@mikewarpula911]

U forgot to mention the junk plastic transaxle some cam with.

[@edgarhernandez4572]

This greed is going to catch up with them, for example, a couple of years of bad tools has absolutely destroyed the craftsman brand. Same thing happened with Porter cable

[@lovedadonald.]

Happy belated birthday !!! Now get back to work LOL ! Good video, keep it up.

[@macdelttorres3366]

The only reason I watch your Chanel is because you don’t bs; you repair things and give great advise….. I’ve watched because I like to learn

[@mattsilver8842]

🎉happy Birthday 🎉 Congratulations on the youtube numbets I have found your channel helpful Keep it going ❤🎉

[@firebird77clonefirebird89]

There is nothing so satisfying as seeing a brand price themselves out of business

[@theactualsalvagedrover]

Hey now! Unless it’s something good, like Keebler Pizzarias, or the McD’s Arch Deluxe, or Noxzema shaving cream with Aloe!!! OR the Chaco-Taco. Bastards, the lot of them for taking away my memories! From my stomach!

[@robertsmith-dr5tm]

You get the birthday and we get the present, watching your videos and getting a little smarter every time 🎂

[@davidkraft3690]

Happy Birthday - 19 AGAIN ! So enjoy your practical side of repair. I am 87 years old , live in a retirement home where they mow the grass, Trim the bushes and push all the snow for us (I live in central Illinois). But in years past I had all the power equipment and kept it running myself (when I could), but wish I had your channel then . Would have been a great help. Congratulations on your channel growth and thanks for a great show !

[@littlejoey22]

You shouldn’t be surprised by the amount of subs you get, you make great and informative videos that are genuinely helpful.

[@aaronthomas6155]

Now if she'd just learn how to say HUSKvarna instead of Hooskvarna..... It's pretty simple. They tell you exactly how to pronounce it in their commercials.

[@spoda81]

Happy Birthday Bre hope you live and long as you want and never want as long as you live,

[@downunderdave5417]

Thats deep! But True......

[@MarkPalmer1000]

Happy Birthday!! As Taryl says, MTD = Made To Die.

[@josephschuster1494]

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHICANIC! Thanks for ALL of your help and valuable info! WE LOVE YOU! 🎉❤😊

[@johnme7049]

Wow! 274K in a year! You absolutely deserve it girl. Best to you. ❤

[@buddymcburnett3011]

Thanks Bre for all your hard work, and precious consideration for sharing , your heart is priceless , HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YUUUUUUU, AND WE LOVE YOU TOOOOOO !! 😃❤️😃❤️

[@28bull]

A blessed Birthday to you Bre.. I was a pretty good wrench turner before I ever found KZbin. Now I am a handicapped old man and multiple trial and error attempts are not in my stamina levels. You have made my life easier.

[@bobmcdoggish9659]

Happy Birthday, Bre! Thanks for the videos. It is a shame what has happened to the once-reliable Craftsman brand.

[@Matt_spalding82]

Omg, I'm an idiot, all these years of watching your videos and I just noticed I wasn't subscribed! Story of my life! Seriously though congratulations on the success, you have worked hard to get here, and it's much appreciated from all of us! Ohhhhhh and Happy Birthday

[@downunderdave5417]

Happy Birthday BEAUTIFUL

[@MakeitZUPER]

Happy birthday kiddo, lol. I'm very happy for your success. I wouldn't be surprised if it's because of your down to earth personality and blunt honesty as well as your willingness to share your experience filled knowledge. Thanks again for all you do.

[@davebaker489]

Happy Happy Birthday. Imagine viewers appreciating well anything. But taking and accepting good advice game changer. Good work lady.

[@oscarornelas3596]

You are a good teacher 🎉

[@53rdcards]

Happy Birthday, I took a small engine repair class in high school and it has been invaluable to me and my family for fixing things, your videos are also a big help. finding out about the differences in the various brans alone has been a big help. The differences in the mowers you showed today reminds me of the ones on the new john deere s series, the 100-130 have the new "quick change" oil filters that cost $70, for the cost of 2 oil changes you can get the s140 that has a bigger, thicker deck, and a traditional oil filter costing $10.

[@jdgimpa]

Happy Birthday, you are not getting older you are getting better!

[@randallk38]

Hello beautiful, happy birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂

[@mikestarkey9522]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNG lady. You have saved me so much money it's like getting a BIRTHDAY gift from YOU. THANKS 😊❤

[@douglasabbott8235]

I went to school for small engine repair. Graduated class of 80. I still have my first lawn tractor. Dynamark 1036.

[@OpenAirAdventure]

Happy birthday Bre. And thank you for being here for us.

[@ianrobinson9565]

WOW 21 YEARS OLD. 🌼🌼🌼

[@independentthinker8930]

Happy birthday girl!!! Thank you for what you do!

[@pursuit0226]

Congrats on your success! You have great content that is relevant to so many of us. This is great and we appreciate it!

[@gregritter377]

Well, here I am time and time again, happy birthday young lady

[@stevewelch5012]

I think you are great. You and my youngest would get along. She's always helping someone work on any kind of equipment from farm equipment to everyday vehicles.

[@HmongUnitedState]

Thanks to this lovely small engine repair lady for her hard work sharing her experience with small engine repair for those who have no knowledge about their small engine equipment. Keep it up and keep posting more of your great works. Love from Minnesota.

[@kenk3102]

...I will not buy from manufacturers who are determined to rip off the consumer.....and thanks to professionals like you Bre to keep us informed, we know just who they are.......please keep the DIY videos coming.....Happy Birthday!... 🙂

[@wayne1959]

happy birthday lovely lady..I hope you had a fantastic day.

[@jeffbotkin1405]

Love watching your videos. Don’t know how old you are but you really don’t look old. Thanks

[@FeralPreacher]

Happy Birthday, beautiful teacher of the masses. I love humanity, it's people I can't stand. Thanks for sharing.

[@Elapid22]

Happy Birthday and thank you for helping us weekend warriors make better decisions on equipment and repair.

[@lonniehensley661]

excellent show as always , and happy birthday your still going strong !!

[@scottharris1125]

I found you when I had electrical trouble with my Cub Cadet.Your great,I’m hooked.Can’t stop watching! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!🌺

[@stevinveroba52]

Happy birthday Bre! You have a great channel. I'm not the least bit surprised it grew as fast as it did. Keep up the good work young lady!!

[@stevedimartino683]

Happy birthday and a healthy one, 🎂🎁👏🎊

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

Happy birthday 🎂

[@swamprat69er]

Talk about stuff hiding in longish grass! Last year I found a missing coulter off my plow, with my brand new Country Clipper Z- turn mower. Cost me $300.+ to get that repaired. Kudos to the guy I bought it off, he picked up the mower, took it to his shop and had it back to me within the week.

[@getch1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉🎉🎉 with flowers 💐 too.

[@jwalk7345]

Happy birthday chickanic your videos have helped me out a lot I greatly appreciate the knowledge you share with us viewers it means a lot and saves the pocket book thank you for all that u do

[@thomaswalsh5097]

Happy Birthday young lady. Have a blessed day

[@larrynelson734]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNG LADY..👍❤.

[@dannymccarty6680]

I’m proud of my impressive 1/270,000th contribution to your happiness! Yay you, Bre! 🆒

[@jackpierik3017]

Happy birthday. Thank you for your honest, concern for my best interest, and your willingness to keep teaching us . (So a bigger Thanks to your mom and dad.)

[@fredabdul4311]

I thank you cuz you are an honest person and a good teacher, thank you again

[@vernonsmith9051]

Happy Birthday Bre! I love watching your channel. Keep up the good work.

[@Cavemannspace]

Congratulations on another successful orbit! Love watching the show. I'll probably not work on an engine, but I love watching and learning about them.

[@Jerry-rw9gk]

I can't believe a woman tellinge how to fix stuff and it stays fixed. You are a amazing woman. Thank you.

[@tomhaire4758]

Happy birthday, I hope your day is blessed with great family and friends.

[@gangiolini6201]

Happy Birthday Lady Bre! 💐

[@whiz3528]

You are my go-to source for small engine service and repair. Lucky to have a dad that was very mechanical and able to repair most anything.

[@robertsise7898]

Happy Birthday! There is nothing more satisfying than watching a professional perform their craft.

[@keithienmason4643]

Happy birthday Veronica from Keithien

[@sheldonbailey3]

As a teacher, this is a very instructive channel with high information density, which I frequently share with students. Additionally, it helped me fix my more modern non-flathead Briggs pushmower carburetor with the $15 part. Your knack for explaining small engine equipment more clearly than most channels makes me say, Thanks!

[@erniequentin]

You are by far the best lawnmower mechanic! Happy birthday 🎉😊

[@LaneyFlynn-hh8mq]

thank you for helping us mechanically challenged folks save time and money. love your videos, very informative and helpful. Got my Husqvarna rider going again thanks to you.

[@mountainman6476]

Hooskvarna.....as in HOOTERS! Happy birthday!!

[@ericc1599]

Happy belated Birthday!! Congrats on the channel growth!! I know I’ve learned a thing or 2 from watching!! 👍

[@64ssmalibu]

Happy birthday bree, hope it's a great day and you spend it with friends and family. Keep up the great videos. 🎉

[@davidfurr2480]

Thank you for all you have done with your channel and videos. You have made such a difference in my life. You gave me the courage to start my own small engine repair shop. I only work out of my garage, but it is paying off and will be my business once I retire from being a human resource manager or as I like to call it a adult baby sitter. Happy birthday and hope you have many more.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ksowderful]

You thanked us but I want to thank you! You are extremely helpful!

[@jimparker9686]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!! Thank you for all you show us.

[@haneyoakie14]

Happy Birthday Bre! Keep up the AWESOME content.

[@Randy245850]

You and Dony Boy have saved me lots of time and frustration!!! Happy Birthday!!!!!

[@larrycogar6091]

Happy birthday young lady! Hope you have an absolutely amazing birthday!🎉

[@56grayghost]

Happy Birthday!! You have saved me a lot of money since I discovered your channel. Thanks, you're the best.

[@ED-ti5tc]

I appreciate what you're doing. You've helped me more than anyone else. Ive always owned MTD. But ive got to get a new mower soon and will not get another one! Happy Birthday!

[@jameslovitt994]

Which probably puts you rowing the same boat I am, what do you replace it with?! Everything seems like overpriced junk.

[@ED-ti5tc]

​@@jameslovitt994 I honestly don't know right now.

[@dusty1498]

Buy something older with Low Hours

[@akbychoice]

MTD builds CubCadet, Craftsman and others.

[@martinphilips6091]

Happy Birthday! By the way, I'm mechanically inclined. I've fixed probably more than 95% of problems I've had with equipment. The only time I sent something out was when I didn't have the equipment to do the job or a pit to change 25# of hydraulic fluid. I loved working on stuff and learning how it worked. I do want to say, I continue to learn things from you! Thank you!

[@Ariesphoenix1]

Happiest of birthdays to you!!! Thanks for posting- I wholeheartedly appreciate you!!

[@johnharman7754]

Happy Birthday young lady 🎉. Enjoy

[@mikewerner3797]

Actually on the spindles that have sealed bearings, all you need to do is pry off the bearing cover rings(cap) that face toward the grease zerk. Then the grease will eventually get to the bearings.

[@lyndonwhitfield1151]

myself, carroni mowers are the same way. They will gladly sell you the extension hose to make it easier to grease your shaft ;-)

[@michaelschmitzerle2587]

Happy birthday Bre! God bless you and your family❣️

[@nightrunner14]

Happy Birthday! After watching lots of your videos, I found myself a John Deere 245 built in 1994. I spent a couple weeks resurrecting it & am blown away at how well it was built. It will literally snap your neck I you hit the throttle too quickly! I accidentally forgot to attach one of the 4 points of the mowing deck and it complete unscrewed the new blade I installed. I assumed I the spindle would surely be broken. To my surprise, it was in good working order still. I simply bolted the blade back on (after checking to see it was not bent) and as I manually rotated the deck belt, both spindles rotated properly and the blades were still level to each other. I sincerely doubt the newer models currently available would be so forgiving. Long story short, armed with the knowledge you share, I was able to restore a quality mower to great usable condition again. Thanks & God Bless!!!

[@bekind8246]

Happy Birthday! Thank you for all you do!

[@ronrynearson8737]

Woshing you a happy birthday 🎉🎉🎉🧁🧁🧁🧁 you're still a good looking 42 years young keep up the goxd work

[@user-fq7lh1wd4q]

A very happy birthday to you! I absolutely love your channel. Been a mechanic for 40 years and you have taught me a thing or 2.

[@antoniohuertas8909]

Happy birthday Bri!!!!❤ You've saved my ass more than once so thanks for everything!

[@crayonsvat121]

Happy Birthday and thank you for what you do .

[@billreynolds2221]

You are an amazing young lady. Hope you have a great day.

[@jaredf5828]

Happy Birthday Bre! You have earned all of those subscribers through the quality of your videos. Thank you!

[@KenJohnsonUSA]

Happy Birthday! I love your channel! So, here in Florida (and much of the South), fishing is a way of life. Outboards are crazy expensive and can take months to get repaired. Lately, a lot of guys have been converting to "gator tail" or "swamp motor" designs where they hook a Harbor Freight lawnmower engine to a long tail kit so they have a 100% air cooled outboard. The idea is the engines are so cheap that it is worth replacing the engine out every 4-6 years rather than paying a marine mechanic to fix a 20+ year used outboard. Kits vary. Some high end kits allow you to even spin the motor all the way around for full-powered reverse. Would you consider doing a "project build" where you build a boat engine from one of these kits and tell us all the pitfalls you see from a small engine mechanic's point of view? You could then sell it to recover the money.

[@mikespain8655]

No

[@marshmower]

Someone already did it. Look up v twin boat motor

[@JasPlun]

I remember my wife getting pissed at me when I purchased a Badboy 8 years ago for $3800 it was a Badboy 48" MZ with the Kawasaki FR engine. 8 years lady mowing in east, TX it has never been in the shop yet for anything knock on wood. Just serviced it yesterday and replaced the blades. It has been a great mower so far, but this Badboy was hard to find with a Kawasaki I had to drive 2 hours to get mine. I will not touch any small engine unless it is a Kawasaki or Honda. I know what runs well and lasts a long time they cannot be beat.

[@rodneygreen9968]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.🎉🎂 Thank you for sharing your repair experience with us viewers. It has been a ton of information for me in doing my own repairs. Congratulations on your Success & Keep On Fixin.

[@jimfoster2568]

Happy Birthday young lady, keep up the good work, thank you for what you are doing.

[@VikingShipExplorer]

Happy Birthday Bre. I hope you're having a great one. Thankyou for all these great videos and I always look forward to see what you're working on next. These videos are super helpful.

[@alanrobison3298]

Happy birthday young lady!

[@rickyn1320]

Happy Birthday! 🎁 Been a subscriber since when you first started out and have seen your channel grow! Lots of great tips and saved money!

[@davidbaird5985]

Happy Birthday!!! Been buying from a local authorized Husqvarna, Toro, and Echo dealer for years. They have been so good to me when it comes to DYI service and fixes with information and guidance. Seeing that I was willing to tackle a problem they gave me advice instead of simply saying bring it in. Price difference between them and the big box stores was so miniscule if any. So thankful the local dealers.

[@aaronthomas6155]

My local Husqvarna, Toro, Echo dealer charges an arm and a leg for everything and won't give out any information..... Cost me $35 for a head gasket for a B&S engine that I used to pay $5 a piece for back in the late 90's..... Asked them how much to fix the B&S engine for me, cuz I was feeling lazy and they quoted me $500 to remove and replace the valves and keepers and re-assemble the engine (I had already disassembled). All of 15 minutes worth of work.....$500. Then when I said no, they told me a new engine would cost upwards of $1500.....lol

[@TruthOverLies]

Happy Birthday Bre! Your videos are awesome!

[@frozenbits48]

At 3.06 you have a quick shot of a Poulan Pro. Same type I bought at Home Depot six years ago. It lasted less than 2 hours before the whole rear end assembly blew apart. Nobody on the 1-800 number that both Poulon and HD gives you will work on it. So we called HD, and the assistant store manager said to bring it back, which we did. As we were unloading it, the employee helping said "hey boss, why are we getting so many of these back?" We ended up paying 200 bucks more and got a Cub Cadet that was a bit bigger. I have two acres of lawn to mow. Other than spark plugs, air and fuel filters being replaced, absolutely nothing has gone wrong. What a great mower and I definitely think it is a real value for the money spent!!

[@danfischer518]

Sorry for the late birthday wish, but hope you had a great day!

[@davemail3]

Are any of these parts interchangeable?

[@mattmcc7930]

The sealed bareings will grease. The pressure from the grease gun WILL push grease passed the seal. You can find a KZbin video on it.

[@uawsux]

dumb

[@dorhocyn3]

The same way a doctor says “the baby will come out, just push!”

[@dave1135]

When I put a new spindle in with the grease zerk, I pull it apart and check the bearings. If they have the sealed caps on the inner part of the bearings, i pop the bearings out and remove one side of the seals, then install with them facing in so they will take grease.

[@dingbop963]

​@@dave1135 I've heard you should leave the inner seals in there.

[@redmondjp]

Sorry Matt, BTDT got the T-shirt! It didn't work. All it did was to press the metal plate on the side of the bearings into the balls, binding up the bearings quite tightly. I relieved the pressure by removing the zerk fitting and all was well after that. Plus, lubrication of bearings is a science and there are people who spend their entire career working on just this. Adding your auto parts store grease to whatever the OEM has chosen, may not work well, as there are different chemical makeups of grease and some are incompatible with each other.

[@stevenwells6251]

Very Beautiful 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻Happy Birthday Sweetheart 😘🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁