PLACEHOLDER: wide shot of the repair bay with three walk-behind mowers and a riding tractor lined up on the concrete, engine parts laid out on a steel bench, pegboard of tools on the back wall

Mowers back on the grass in about a week.

Small engine repair on Maple Street in Lathrop. Walk-behinds, riding tractors, trimmers, blowers, chainsaws, tillers, generators and snow blowers, with the current turnaround written on the door and on this page.

Briggs, Kohler, Kawasaki, Honda and Tecumseh · Pickup and delivery within 20 miles · 31 years on Maple Street

Call about a repair

123 Main St, Lathrop, MO Turnaround right now: 6 to 9 days $45 diagnostic, waived with the repair

What we fix

If it has a pull cord or a carburetor, bring it in.

Two thirds of what comes through the door is fuel. Ethanol sits over the winter, varnishes the carburetor, and the machine will not start in April. That is a cheap fix and we would rather tell you so on the phone than have you buy a new mower.

PLACEHOLDER: walk-behind push mower up on a lift table with the deck tipped, blade off, hands cleaning the underside of the deck with a scraper

Walk-behind mowers

Will not start, will not stay running, pulls hard, cuts uneven. Carburetor rebuilds, recoil springs, blade and spindle work, deck welding on the older steel decks.

tune-up $89

PLACEHOLDER: riding lawn tractor with the hood off and the mower deck dropped, deck belt routing exposed, socket set on the seat

Riding tractors and zero-turns

Belts, spindles, PTO clutches, charging systems, hydro drives that have gone soft, and the deck leveling nobody ever does.

tune-up $165

PLACEHOLDER: string trimmers and a backpack blower standing in a rack, one apart on the bench with the clutch drum and coil laid out

Trimmers and blowers

Two-stroke fuel line rot, primer bulbs, coils, clutch drums and the gearheads on the straight-shaft units. New line and a head rebuild while it is here.

from $55

PLACEHOLDER: chainsaw disassembled on a bench with the bar and chain off, a chain grinder in the background with a fresh chain on the wheel

Chainsaws

Chain grinding on the wheel, bar and sprocket replacement, oiler pumps, carburetor rebuilds, and compression testing before you spend money on a saw that is done.

chain sharpen $9

PLACEHOLDER: rear-tine garden tiller and a log splitter parked side by side in the shop, tines and wedge showing wear, hydraulic hose coiled

Tillers and log splitters

Tine shafts, gearbox seals, hydraulic hoses and pumps, and the recoil assemblies that take the worst of it. Heavy stuff, so use the pickup service.

by the job

PLACEHOLDER: portable generator and a two-stage snow blower on the shop floor in front of a parts shelf, auger housing showing bent paddles

Generators and snow blowers

Off-season is the right time for both. Generators get load tested, snow blowers get augers, paddles, shear pins and the chute crank nobody greases.

load test $60

PLACEHOLDER: close crop of a hand-written work order tag zip-tied to a mower handle, part numbers and a phone number written on it, greasy thumbprint on the corner

Shop rates

Posted, so nobody argues at the counter.

Walk-behind tune-upPlug, air filter, oil, blade sharpen, carb clean, deck scrape$89
Riding tractor tune-upPlugs, filters, oil and hydro check, blades, deck leveled$165
Carburetor rebuildKit and clean, single cylinder$70–$115
Blade sharpen and balancePer blade, off the machine$12
Chain sharpen on the wheelPer chain, while you wait when we can$9
Pickup and deliveryRound trip inside 20 miles of Lathrop$45

Bench rate is $85 an hour after the flat items above. Diagnostic is $45 and it comes off the bill if you have us do the work. We call with a number before we spend your money, and if the repair is going to cost more than the machine is worth we will say that out loud. Prices here are illustrative for this preview.

On the bench

Four machines in the shop this week.

The board by the counter has the real queue on it and the real turnaround. In April and May that number goes to three weeks no matter what anybody wants, so get your mower in during February and skip the line.

PLACEHOLDER: varnished carburetor bowl next to a clean rebuilt one on a shop rag — Four-year-old fuel, one afternoon

PLACEHOLDER: mower deck spindle assembly pressed apart with new bearings beside it — Spindle bearings, 42 inch deck

PLACEHOLDER: chainsaw bar and worn sprocket beside a freshly ground chain — Bar, sprocket and a new chain

PLACEHOLDER: snow blower auger housing with bent paddles and replacement paddles laid out — Auger paddles, done in July

PLACEHOLDER: the owner at the bench in a shop apron with a carburetor in his hands, work orders clipped to a nail above him

The shop

One bench, one man, and a board with your name on it.

Owner name goes here has been on Maple Street since 1995. It is a one-bench shop, which is why the turnaround is honest instead of optimistic and why you talk to the person who is actually going to fix the thing.

There is no showroom and nothing here is for sale except labor and parts. If you need a new mower he will tell you which dealer to go see, and then he will service it for you afterward.

Owner name goes here, Lathrop

Pickup area

Twenty miles out from Maple Street.

Shop

123 Main St
Lathrop, MO 64465

Pull around to the side door and back up to the ramp. Bring the machine with the fuel tank as close to empty as you can get it, and bring the key if it has one.

Hours

Monday to Friday8 to 5:30
Saturday8 to noon
SundayClosed

Closed the first full week of July. Voicemail gets checked twice a day in season and once a day in the winter, so leave the machine, the engine brand and what it is doing.

Get in touch

(816) 555-0157

shop@example.com

Towns we cover: Lathrop, Plattsburg, Trimble, Turney, Holt, Kearney, Smithville, Cameron, Gower, Stewartsville, Osborn, Polo and the farms in between.