Why won't my Yard Machine riding mower start?

I already have a question out there on my yard machine that took off by itself,this is about my back-up it is a sears LT/10e cast iron engine block solid state ignition not the greatest looking machine but seemed to run fine until I was cutting grass and it seemed to lose power at first I thought...

I have a 97 yard machine that keeps killing the battery. I bought it used and had to put a new battery in it and it did fine for about 2 weeks then the battery was dead. What is killing my battery and how do I fix it?

I hit a belt off a steel belted tire while cutting grass near the road. It was hidden beneath the tall grass. The engine almost died, but picked up again and began smoking. When accellerating, it makes a sound that I used to get when I used low octane gasoline in my car which needed high test. The...

OK. Normally, I would continue to tinker if it was one of my cars, but I have temporarily been outmatched. (HA) I have a YardMachine mower that has finally decided to stop and not start or run. It started three days ago and ran for 5 minutes. This was the first start of the year. It seemed to take...