At 21st of November 2009 at approximately 5:00 p.m. I was of mowing my lawn. The grass was about 12 in. tall and was dry. Some of the grass got wedged between the muffler and a muffler shroud housing, the hot muffler gases ignited, and started a fire. I was in an open field and couldn't get to a water supply so the entire lawn mower went down in flames. And was totally destroyed. I burned my fingers a little bit trying to put the flames out. I do believe that it was a manufacturing defect, because the muffler went out the bottom instead... read full review »