

When I was in high school I was chopping up some leaves with our riding lawn mower, at the request of my parents. The leaves built up in the mowing deck and caught fire due to friction. I jumped off the lawn mower because I was afraid it would blow up, since I just filled up the gas tank. Tires melted, and there was a 20 ft burn mark all around the mower. I was too far away for our water hose to reach, but fortunately our neighbor saw what was happening and put the fire out with an extinguisher. I was not permitted to cut grass again for a while…
I don’t think it was second hand but this was 10+ years ago and we had already had that mower for like 20 years at that point.