I had trouble with my mower starting. After trying to troubleshoot the…read more problem without success, I contacted Chris and indicated the problem I was having with the mower. I left the mower with Chris to do a general tuneup service. Chris got on it immediately and I had the mower back in just a few days. Thank you Chris for doing a great job. The mower is running like new. Mark

Chris was great in tuning two mowers in less than 3 days just as the spring season had hit. Both…read moremowers were cleaned and running perfectly. He certainly knew each mower and pointed out their strengths and weaknesses. He was honest and professional and I felt his charges were appropriate. I will recommend him and use him again in the future.

True owner operated, mom n pop business for sharpening cutlery of all kinds, for home use and…read morecommercial use, in the handy format of a mobile sharpening truck. The abbreviated review is to say if you're looking for top notch sharpening at super reasonable rates you'll want to find this business. So to start I will link the page on their site that has their scheduled locations. https://tvmsharpening.com/schedule/ Right now they seem to have the truck parked in parking lots of small community grocers. Works for us! They'll also do house calls, if you have the amount of work to justify it. I'm thinking an annual or bi-annual community event in my neighborhood for the truck to park and neighbors to get their knives sharpened would be a great idea. The sharpening tradesman, Robert Barkley, has a sharpening shop set up in the back of the truck and a very nice woman, maybe the missus, is in the front taking in the items to be sharpened, writing out the invoices, providing time estimates for the items to be completed. (Plan on a couple of hours, plus or minus, depending on how many jobs are ahead of you and how many items you have to drop off. They will text you when job is done.) Both delightful people and I knew this would be so when on our first encounter Robert mentioned getting a pair of shears someone had brought in ahead of us as being a "bearcat" to reassemble for the unusual spring mechanism . That is the phrase used by my dad's relatives from the mid-west in the day and it was music to my ears. And to give you an idea of the fun sense of humor of this owner, when I unwrapped the knives at home I found his business card tucked in with a band aid stapled to the back. Sharp knives...band aid.. Clever! ;-) The first tranche of kitchen knives we brought in left the truck the sharpest they've been in a long time! Perfect edges. As a...umm...well seasoned home cook who has been passionate about local food sourcing and cooking for umpteen decades, cooking keeps me sane, this was a great start on the short list of 5 items I gave my husband of umpteen decades "minus" in preparation for a "Big Zero" birthday I have coming up. At the top was, "Get my knives professionally sharpened." Now he can check that one off and move on to the next item on the list. An equally practical entry, "Get my watch band resized." (Lucky for him have always been a cheap date. ;-))

Exceptional work. I brought in a total of 11 knives to be sharpened and fine tuned and they…read moreproduced amazing results. Beautiful work, excellent customer service and if I do say so myself they both have a "razor sharp" sense of humor :) very fair pricing, so I always tip them as every service requested is completed beautifully. It is hard to find a reliable business at all these days and this one takes the cake! If I could give more stars I would!

Chris and Chloe at Heavy Equipment Parts gave me awesome service. As a walk-in customer, I was…read moretreated like royalty. Chloe helped me find the parts I needed. She was patient and professional. Chris helped me get the parts. He offered me some guidance and great advice to help me get my backhoe back into commission. It's obvious that this business hires great people who want to serve their customers. What an awesome testament to a great work environment!

Was having issues with my cruise control in my motorhome. 45' WANDERLODGE bus with C-13 Diesel…read moreengine. Owned pushers for 20 yrs so very familiar with service centers across the western US and Canada. This bus is new to me and my first experience with the service center. Was able to get an appointment ASAP with no issues. Easy access in and out (important when driving these things!) The shop has the be the cleanest there is and the waiting area looks like Macy's with everything thing a dedicated CAT owner might dream of! The parts counter is clear un cluttered and the guys could not be more friendly and helpful. Not only help you but also the cashier (nice touch). My service tech found me in the waiting room and took me out to the bus. He politely hooked in and stayed on it for about an hour until it was dialed in and all the controls were adjusted to my preferences! Answered all my questions and had me on my way. I was able to get pricing on services such as oil changes and found them to be 30% less then the best prices I had found! I'll be coming back here for a long time!

Great service, excellent communication, fast repairs. Mower runs as good as new! And they are…read moresuper friendly. Drop off and pick up was soooo easy! This is my new spot!

As a knife nerd they speak my language and it was very refreshing. The staff was very knowledgeableread more

Awesome, sharpened an entire knife set that cost us a pretty $$$$. Came back as good as new:)read more

I needed all my knives sharpened. He stayed later at his shop to let me arrive and get the job…read moredone! Most of the local restaurants use his services. Who could be better?!

Great service . Reasonable prices. PLUS my knives are gloriously sharp! I like to cook a lot and I…read morereally appreciate when the fullness of a knife does not slow me down !

He did a fantastic job. My mower is easier to start now than when I first bought it. He lets you…read moreknow what is going on and what parts of any your mower will need. I would definitely recommend him.

Ken was very friendly and helpful. He quickly got my mower running and the price was right!read more

I took my mower in and told him pretty much exactly what was wrong with it and what he could do to…read moretest it to be sure, and then after waiting in line for three weeks he decided to complain that the carburetor was after market and that it wasn't assembled, even though it was specifically disassembled to make it possible to test and see what I had said initially. He ended up charging me $99 to take parts off that where unrelated to the problem, and suggested several times that the problem wasn't the governor. My mower was over revving uncontrolled and the throttle did nothing. This started randomly during my last mow of the year while I was unloading the grass bags. In the spring I took it all apart and tested everything out again. By removing the linkages in the throttle assembly and testing each individually I found that the governor linkage had absolutely no resistance even when the mower was running way to fast. It should be pushing back against the throttle to slow the engine down. Manually manipulating the carburetor could speed up and slow down the mower but still there was no feedback on the governor arm. When I looked online this was a commonly reported problem with the B&S V-twin. I took this in to JP and told him all of the above because I didn't have time to open up the block to debug and fix. When he called back he told me that the carburetor wasn't assembled right, the seals were leaking, and that he would need to reassemble all of it and replace the brand new carburetor with a OEM part in order to test the mower. He clearly had never turned it on or even tried troubleshooting. I refused further service and took the mower home. He insisted that the governor felt like it was working fine at several points in this process. After disassembling the motor I found all the bits and pieces of the governor in the oil sump pan. Just as I had said, the governor had exploded in the case and wasn't even attached to the motor any more. There was also a crack in the crank case directly behind the starter mower that wasn't visible until the motor was opened that likely makes the motor not even worth fixing. In the end had I followed his advice I would have been hundreds of dollars in the hole before he even tried troubleshooting the issue and found the underlying critical problem that he likely wouldn't have been able to repair anyway.

Fair prices for work completed and was completed timely. Would highly recommend themread more