I would hve bet that freak was a catcher, not a pitcher...guess he should update his GRINDR profile? LOL
Maybe they should go back to making GOOD motors. Just an idea.
The biggest boom in home improvement and they go bust?
That sucks. Probably crushed under the weight of its own debt.
I have an old lawn tractor with a Briggs and Stratton 18 hp engine. The deck is rusted out and the tires are almost slick but the engine still cranks immediately.
I now use it as a powered wheel chair when I don’t feel like walking to my mailbox.
Dadgummit! I like Briggs. Good solid price-point engines. I’ve abused them and they still start and run. Old school for sure vs aHonda or Kawasaki. But, still . . . .. I like to see Americans employed.
Ping
But hey.... Dr. Fauci, the covid Fascist, is throwing out the first pitch at the Nationals game... The Briggs & Stratton employees should enjoy that while putting in for their unemployment.
Maybe the fact that modern Briggs engines have plastic cam lobes and timing gears that are prone to failing might have something to do with this? For a comparison harbor freight predator engines have metal cams and while the timing gear is still plastic its more solid than the Briggs one.
Briggs Iron Heads, like old Harley engines can be rebuilt, and rebuilt and rebuilt. Ive got a super boneyard of stuff. Elementary school kids can work on them.
Honda aluminum engines are great, and they run long time. But try and rebuild it when something goes wrong.
Pricey parts, when available. Nothing swaps. Japs dont rebuild stuff. They just replace. Toss it and drop another $600 on a mower.
10, 15, 20 yr old Briggs are everywhere. Swap engines onto anything. Cranks swap into everything. Even same year and model Hondas wont do that.
Does have the Chap 11 BKY, but still looks like one of them hedge fund buyout things, sell off good assets, load rest of company with debt and let some other sucker deal with it. As other posters have stated they should be ok now with the COVID forcing lots of DYI stuff.
I hate to see it.
When I was a young kid in the city, I would find Briggs and Straton engines that people had thrown out (e.g. old lawn mowers, etc.), and try to revive them. This was when I was 8-9 years old, and it taught me a lot of useful skills in life - including the value of trying to resurrect things instead of spending more money on something new. Good memories.
I have a 20 year old Mower and a 15 year old generator with Kawasaki engines. All still have great compression. The Mower, though, with the OHC engine, has a higher RPM power curve and if you get into heavy grass it will bog where a Toro or B&S engine (or an electric) will power through it. So while the Kwacker is a good engine it’s not the best design for a mower that needs super low end grunt. That’s the trade off in using higher RPM in a smaller mower to get the “same” power.
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.
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.