Posted on 07/20/2020 3:15:38 PM PDT by AggregateThreat
I agree. New Brigs are not the old Brigs. The small engines do not have the “never say die” spirit of the old 4hp engines.
Fake news. It’s not the epidemic. People are still mowing lawns as often as before. It’s the cheap, Chinese competition. Big, Chinese-made riding mowers are all over the place.
Bliggs aln Slratton?
say it ain’t so
KPS Capital Partners will suck whatever life is still in B&S and leave its desiccated corpse in a dumpster.
Exactly - the suits have fumbled the ball.
Overhead valves were introduced by Buick in 1904. I was surprised that Briggs and Stratton didn’t wait the full 100 years before introducing them in their products just to make sure it wasn’t a fad. They only waited 90 something years.
And thy wonder why Honda is eating their lunch.
What I do know is that they bought up a bunch of other companies and were selling products with those brand names. I know they own Simplicity, and Ferris, And probably some more.
The scrap yards are full of B&S twin cylinder v engines that the valve guides back out of the heads and bend or break the pushrods.
Shoulda got a Harley...
When I worked auto parts a guy came in madder than a hornet with a champion plug with no threads from the factory. He said the fish weren’t biting in the gulf and decided to change plugs and threw the old ones overboard. The last one out of the box was the one without threads and he said it wouldn’t run with one open hole and had to be towed in by the Coast Guard.
I made the mistake of buying a Simplicity snow blower.
Other neighbors got John Deere or Honda.
They had no complaints.
I had a bunch.
Steel workers union.
I hope your Chink built crap blows up.
Don’t blame labor for management mistakes.
Dude, that is lazy. Unless your mailbox is a quarter mile away.
B&S got hit with a big class action suit over their BS horsepower ratings. That doesn’t mean the engines were no good, just that they lied about what they were.
My first thought when I saw the headline was "how long ago were they bought out by a hedge fund?"
That means Harley Davidson will have to find a new engine supplier.
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