There is a particular sound a small engine makes when it finally catches after a winter in the shed, and in Cochran that sound is the true start of spring. Nelson's Lawn Mower Repair is where the machines come to make it — carburetors cleaned, blades sharpened, belts and cables replaced, decks scraped back down to metal. Middle Georgia asks a lot of a mower: nine or ten months of cutting, sand in the deck, clay caked in the wheels. Getting a tired machine to run right again, and cut clean rather than tear, is its own quiet kind of good work. Push mowers, riders and the trimmers and blowers that ride along with them all come through the shop.