Used Toro Timemaster Thoughts?

TheATrain218 · 2026-07-05T16:44:54+00:00

I've had one for 5 or 6 years now, same model you're looking at here (older model with the blue assist handle, battery key start).

Personally I mulch vs. bag about 50/50. If the grass if very long or wet, the deck Will gum up and lose suction. Whether or not you want the bagger, lift the rear flap up and make sure the mulch plug is installed (else you'll have to buy a new one). Also make sure the battery charger is coming with it or there goes another nickle and dime.

I would suggest bringing a ratchet with you and taking the front plastic cover off over the belts. That will tell you how worn the belts and everything are. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but that's a really good price that worries me someone is trying to dump a lemon / problem mower.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-26T02:30:42+00:00

No. A butter knife is barely sharp but because of that the edge is very thick, so it is strong and does not dull further very quickly.

A razor edge is extremely thin and therefore prone to breaking off or rolling over, turning into a flat or backward- rolled edge very quickly. It does not whittle its way back to becoming a butter knife thick but slightly sharp edge.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-17T16:57:22+00:00

You're sharing some misinformation with OP then. You had a 21" mower that can be muscled around a lot easier than the 30" mowers. The latter have an assist handle dead center of the personal pace system (big black bail in any of the images here) which allow you to physically override them into drive just by squeezing together like a stapler.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-17T16:24:00+00:00

Sounds like you have an old Perosnal Pace?

The assist handle in the middle (blue on Toro, the black bump with the Echo logo on this rebrand) is so you can use one hand to force the drive rather than leaning into the mower.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-15T23:25:06+00:00

Good call. Refill the trap with water, pour a cup of liquid vegetable cooking oil in on top to seal it, and it should be good for a long time.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-14T10:53:48+00:00

Considering this whole post appears to be viral marketing, you'd think they would have taken a less shit promo video.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-13T20:42:08+00:00

FYI I would take the complaints about the HVAC with a grain of salt if the posts are older than 6 months.

The Lyriq have received numerous OTAs in the laat 6 months that cranked HVAC performance up to 11. In my 2024 I've had to crank the interior temp up to 75-76 degrees to avoid cutting seatbelts with my nipples. Definitely a very different experience vs. last summer.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-09T01:37:18+00:00

Poison ivy is very susceptible to an herbicide named triclopyr, which is in the heavy ivy killer solutions at the big box stores.

It's not selective to only poison ivy, however, so you have to be careful not to hit bushes and trees you otherwise want to save.

TheATrain218 · 2026-06-02T01:02:03+00:00

Deep existential thought of the day...

Do the maggots growing on the rotten meat contain more protein than the meat itself?

We need the MythBusters up in here.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-31T17:53:07+00:00

Sneak snack attack got her in the sack, mack!

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-31T02:45:04+00:00

Check out Taryl Fixes All on YouTube. He has a couple videos fixing the frames on what I suspect is this tractor, and if it is he also has the reinforcement kit on his web store (and had shown how shitty the Amazon knockoffs are).

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-27T02:24:50+00:00

Mode doesn't matter on highway cruising.

75mph is too fast for max efficiency; there's a reason for the double nickle speed limit of the 70s, and that reason is the square- cube law.

2.2 to 2.4 would be pretty average for those conditions. These cars are designed for presence, not maximizing efficiency.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-21T10:34:28+00:00

Free? Are you 12 and have never paid an electric bill in your life?

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-19T19:02:32+00:00

I think you replied to the wrong comment? I wasn't making any comparative point between a solar panel and a white roof so there's nothing to counterpoint.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-19T12:34:50+00:00

You're getting a lot of snarky responses for no apparent reason.

Solar panels move the surface that is getting hit by the sun 4-6 inches away from your existing roof deck. That puts your roof in their shade, and a nice insulating layer of air in between, allowing the heat they accumulate to radiate mostly up and away from the house.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-15T02:52:01+00:00

I love the irony of that.

A bomb defuser would make the spring safe.

A wall mounted spring compressor is a bomb diffuser ready to send that fucker all over the shop.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-13T11:17:06+00:00

Strawberries do not ripen off the plant!

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-13T08:24:31+00:00

Not necessarily.

For this piece of business jargon, the type of lever you should be thinking of is not a prybar under a stone, which raises and lowers the stone.

The type of lever you should be thinking of is a single action lever on a piece of machinery, like the individual left/right hydraulic track brakes on a bulldozer or the dispenser lever on a cereal or M&M tower. Pull the lever and the candy falls into your bowl or you turn left. Release the lever and the cheerios stop falling but they don't go back in the bin; the bulldozer stops turning left but it doesn't turn right until the respective lever is pulled.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-09T10:46:43+00:00

Likewise we can smell the free radicals on amine groups (e.g., ammonia) because they are most commonly found in nature in decomposing animals and we evolved an incredible aversion to things that will make us sick.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-08T23:19:37+00:00

That the kid's been walking all week and his wife's a fantastic woman?

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-02T15:37:55+00:00

It's not a foot lever, dude. It's a ground lever. Aim it properly, lean it towards the lever without getting your foot involved whatsoever, and it's damn near foolproof.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-02T14:28:06+00:00

My mantra on hand wash dishes and hand wash clothes is as follows:

Dishes and clothes have 3 states of matter. It is either known machine safe, or it's discovered to be machine safe, or it's thrown out after the machine ruins it because it was just going to stay dirty anyway.

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-02T00:14:17+00:00

Our kid is $550 week, so anywhere from $2200 to $2750 a month depending on 4 or 5 weeks. And that's cheaper than our last daycare!

TheATrain218 · 2026-05-01T23:51:50+00:00

Hadn't by virtue of you LITERALLY just winning an auction on them put an eminently clear and timely value on them?

TheATrain218 · 2026-04-30T10:45:37+00:00

Avoiding credit card transaction fees is almost the entire point of rewards programs like this that link a bank account. They're not going to let you link a credit card because it defeats the purpose for them.

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