I've been mowing for a few weeks, & now, the neighbors are joining in. Nobody & I mean nobody else besides me in the culdesac ever has the common sense to go out & pick up the winter debri BEFORE mowing. I hear so much racket, that 2 out of three has to take their mowers in for repair EACH summer. One guy actually push mows the hill behind him & it's a constant crackling all fuggin day when clearing the small patch of woods behind his house. He's the one that takes his back 3 times for repair....lol