I bought a John Deere reel mower for $220

Looking for deals on Facebook marketplace place I found a professional John Deere 11 blade reel mower. It was in unknown condition so seller just wanted it out of their property and we were able to make a deal. After inspecting the unit it was discovered it wasn’t starting due to water in fuel and also contaminated oil.
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[@tylerdowd]

cool vid and crazy deal! You got that thing looking CRISP.
Are there differences between the 220a, 220c, 220SL, etc?

[@vitalyniki]

The difference is the model production years. 220A was produced from 1997-2002 220B 2002-2006 220C 2007-2010 220SL 2011- of course there’s technical updates throughout the years and whatnot but generally it’s the same machine

[@fanar2010]

good job mate really enjoying your videos keep them coming 😊
Also how clean does it cuts grass did you had any better results compared to you regular lawnmower?

[@vitalyniki]

Cut quality is definitely better but it all depends on how short you will keep your lawn. Reel mowers aren’t recommended for anything over an inch so if you don’t intend to mow your lawn atleast 3 times a week to keep it very short there’s absolutely nothing wrong with traditional rotary mowers for people to mow once a week.

[@scooper6257]

Good vid until the abrupt ending. What a steal at that price!

[@vitalyniki]

Dang I thought it was getting too long and boring. I really do appreciate the feedback, I’ll do a follow up video on it. 🤙

[@RaymondKunkle-pk2sd]

Thats a 6 thousand dollar machine

[@MrNoclutch]

Nice find, water in oil and combustion chamber was bad. Need to put an inline fuel filter to the carb, they are cheap and ez to install. I would also use a some SeaFoam in both the gas and oil and run it to temperature and replace it. Fixed many old generators, welders, pumps, hoists, snow throwers, tillers, lawn mowers and such that people gave up on that had very little wrong with them. I wish I had my old reel from back in the 70's I mowed lawns with. 2 inch cut laid out some reel nice stripes. I'm still on a look out locally for used one at a sensible price. Thanks for the video.

[@vitalyniki]

I always do have a gallon of sea foam around for my diesel’s 😎 I’ll definitely add some before the oil flush

[@juanmedinar20]

make it electric