Last updated: August 2026.
These terms govern your use of Still Worth Starting (stillworthstarting.com). By using the site, you agree to them. If you do not, please stop using the site — that is the only consequence, and there is nothing else to cancel.
The site is published by WoozKa Holdings LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (“we,” “us”). Contact: hello@stillworthstarting.com.
1. What this site is
Still Worth Starting publishes compiled reference information about outdoor power equipment — mowers, snowblowers, string trimmers, chainsaws, pressure washers and blowers. That means repair cost data, parts prices, engine specifications and supplier cross-references, shop fee schedules, symptom guides, and tools that help you weigh a repair against a replacement.
It is general information, not advice about your particular machine. We have not seen it, do not know its engine’s model and code or its history, and cannot diagnose it. Two mowers with the same symptom can need different repairs at very different prices.
The author is not a small-engine mechanic, and this site does not claim trade qualifications. What it claims is that the information here was compiled from named primary sources and dated. How that works is set out in the Editorial Policy.
2. Safety — the part that actually matters
Outdoor power equipment combines gasoline, hot exhaust, stored spring energy, and unguarded rotating steel. Small machines are not low-risk machines; a walk-behind mower carries a blade turning fast enough to sever, and a chainsaw has no guard at all.
Nothing on this site is an instruction to perform a repair yourself. Where a page describes what a repair involves, it is explaining why a quote costs what it does — not teaching you to do it. By deliberate policy this site does not publish step-by-step procedures for chainsaw chain work, blade removal or sharpening, or carburetor and fuel-system disassembly. Those go to your machine’s operator manual and a servicing dealer. The full scope rule is in the Editorial Policy.
The hazards that put those jobs out of scope, stated plainly:
- A chain or blade that moves at idle is a fault, not a quirk. A chainsaw with a mis-set idle can drive the chain while the saw appears to be at rest. Stop using it and take it to a dealer.
- Disconnect the spark plug lead before going near a blade, auger or impeller — and understand that this stops the engine starting, not the part turning. Never clear a snowblower chute or auger by hand. Stored energy in the auger and impeller can release after the engine is off. Use the clearing tool supplied with the machine.
- Recoil starters hold spring tension. Disassembling one without knowing how it unwinds is a well-known way to be injured by a machine that is not even running.
- Gasoline vapor is the hazard, not the liquid. Never drain, store or work on a fuel system near an ignition source, a water heater pilot, or a running engine. Let the engine cool first — mufflers and cylinder fins stay hot long after shutdown.
- Never run a gas engine indoors or in an attached garage, including to “warm it up” or run the tank dry. Carbon monoxide from small engines is a recognized cause of fatal poisoning, and an open door is not ventilation.
- Doing your own work may void a manufacturer warranty, and some warranties are also voided if an hour meter is disconnected or altered. Check before you start, not after.
If you choose to work on your own machine, you do so at your own risk and on your own judgment. If a page here ever reads like an instruction to do something hazardous, tell us and it will be fixed ahead of everything else in the queue — hello@stillworthstarting.com.
3. Accuracy, and its limits
We take accuracy seriously — sources named at the point of claim, verification dates on every page carrying prices or specifications, two separate re-check schedules depending on how fast a figure moves, and a correction address that is read. But:
- Catalog and retailer prices change fast. Two engine prices cited on this site disappeared from the supplier’s page within three days of being read. The figures here describe published ranges at a stated date, not what you will be quoted.
- Manufacturers revise their documentation and reorganize their websites, and links rot.
- Specifications follow the engine, not the machine badge. A figure correct for one engine series is not correct for another fitted to the same model of mower. Always check the documentation for your own engine’s model, type and code.
- Some of what we publish is arithmetic performed on published figures rather than figures anyone published. Where that is so, the page says so.
We do not warrant that content on this site is complete, current, or error-free. Before spending money, verify anything decisive against the manufacturer’s documentation for your engine and machine, or against a dealer who has seen it.
Found an error? hello@stillworthstarting.com. We fix things and note the change.
4. Tools and calculators
This site offers interactive tools, including a repair-or-replace calculator.
They are arithmetic aids, not verdicts. They take the figures you supply and show the working. Their output is only as good as your inputs, they rest on published averages and manufacturer-declared figures that may not describe your machine, and they cannot account for its actual condition. Where no figure could be sourced for a machine class, the tool leaves the field empty and says so rather than supplying a plausible-looking default — and where the arithmetic would not change the answer, it says that too. Use them to structure a decision, not to make it for you.
5. Trademarks and affiliation — please read this one
This site discusses equipment and engines made by Briggs & Stratton, Kohler, Honda, Kawasaki, Toro, Cub Cadet, John Deere, Husqvarna, Ariens, Echo, Stihl, Troy-Bilt, Hydro-Gear, Simpson, DeWalt, Generac, Greenworks, and others.
We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or authorized by any equipment manufacturer, engine manufacturer, dealer, retailer, repair shop, or extended warranty provider. No manufacturer or shop has reviewed, approved, or paid for anything on this site. Where a repair shop’s published price list is quoted, that shop is named and located, and has no relationship with us.
All product names, brand names, model numbers, part numbers and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. They are used here for identification and reference only — to say which engine a specification belongs to, or whose parts catalog a price came from. Such use does not imply any relationship between us and the trademark owner.
Where we quote a manufacturer’s documentation, it is quoted briefly, attributed, and linked to the original.
6. Our content
Original text, tables, compilations, calculators and other material created for this site are owned by us and protected by copyright.
What you may do freely: read it, print it, use it to make your own decisions, and quote a short passage with attribution and a link back. Compiling information so people can use it is the point of the site; using it is not a problem.
What you may not do: republish pages or substantial portions of them, scrape the site systematically, or use its content to train or populate another publication or dataset, without written permission. The compiled tables took real work, and that is what this clause protects.
Facts themselves are not owned by anyone — including us.
7. Things you send us
If you send a correction, question, or suggestion, you grant us permission to use it to improve the site, including publishing a corrected figure and noting that a page changed.
We will not publish your name or contact details without asking you first. Please do not send us confidential information; email is not a secure channel, and a correction address is not the place for it.
8. Third-party links and advertising
This site links out heavily and deliberately — to manufacturer service documentation and parts catalogs, federal regulations, climate datasets, and published shop price lists — because showing where a figure came from is the point.
We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, or practices. A link is a citation, not an endorsement.
The site also carries third-party advertising. We do not select individual advertisers, and an ad appearing here is not a recommendation — including ads for repair services, dealers or equipment. What advertising partners collect is described in the Privacy Policy. Transactions you enter into with an advertiser are between you and them.
9. Availability
We try to keep the site up and current, but it is provided “as is” and “as available.” We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of it, and may update or remove content, without notice.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law:
- The site and everything on it is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
- We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of this site or reliance on its content — including repair or replacement costs, damage to equipment or property, lost time, or consequential losses.
- Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us to access this site (which is zero) or US $100.
Nothing here excludes liability for anything that cannot legally be excluded — including fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and if you are a consumer you keep your statutory rights.
11. Indemnity
If your misuse of this site — breaching these terms, infringing someone’s rights, or unlawful use — causes a claim against us, you agree to cover the reasonable costs of dealing with it.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be brought in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, and you and we consent to that jurisdiction.
If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection laws in your own country or state.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The “last updated” date at the top will change, and continued use of the site after that means the revised terms apply. Material changes will be described rather than made silently.
14. Severability
If any provision here is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is applied as narrowly as necessary.
15. Contact
hello@stillworthstarting.com WoozKa Holdings LLC, New Jersey, United States