1. Recall Bulletin #15243, issued February 2015, affecting all Model MB S/N 11-113438 thru 14-128728, replacing transmission cooling fans. Compliance with this bulletin is strongly recommended due to possible derailment of the transmission drive belt and unexpected free-wheeling and loss of ground drive and steering.
2. Recall Bulletin #15247, issued May 2015, affecting Model MS14 S/N 14-127922 thru 15-133902, adding belt guide to PTO drive belt. Compliance with this bulletin is strongly recommended to give complete disengagement of the PTO drive belt and to improve braking action of PTO blade drive with the blade clutch disengaged.

All owners of affected units are encouraged to have their machines upgraded free of charge by contacting their local dealer.

Back in 2008, Walker Talk volume 33 ran a story on Ralph Anderson, the owner of Anderson Lawn Care in Wyanet, Illinois. The title of the story was “Age is No Barrier for This Mowing Contractor”, and it still isn’t. Anderson is 83 years old and going strong.

Pull into Country Gardens RV Park in Petersburg, Ontario, Canada, and something dramatic happens. You cross over into a tension-free zone; at least that’s what many guests tell Peter Bingeman who, with his family, owns and operates this “home away from home.” In fact, they own two campgrounds, a long stone’s throw from one another, Landings and Country Gardens.

When Anderson Goldmon started mowing lawns full-time in 2000, he had one goal in mind. The prison job he left was paying $35,000 annually and he was bringing home $28,000 mowing lawns part-time. Within the next year, he wanted to make as much money mowing lawns as he had been making in his job. His goal, then, was a modest $7,000 increase in sales.

 I have always enjoyed true stories more than fiction. You just cannot make up some of the real journeys that people go on in their lives. Now we know that a lawnmower is probably not the highlight of most people’s life, but for some, the Walker Mower has played an interesting part in their story.