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check and be sure the blades are sharp. if the blade gets a rounded edge it wont cut properly and will bog down trying to cut.

Their's a bowl under the carburetor ,remove gas from tank or pinch gas line and remove ***** under bowl and gas will come out,clean bowl and reinstall and start it up,Trash gets in their,need a inline filter to stop it.Lowe's has them,3 dollars.

if you need to keep the choke on then there is a plugged jet inside the carb

did u turn it on its side? change the air filter. change the plug. turning it on its side could cause a fouling in the plug or air filter to fill up with oil and shoot out on the deck. Use Stabil in the gas in the off season.

You may have overserviced the oil.

Try replacing the fuel and spark plug. Gas may be bad. Get some fresh from the station not from the can sitting in the garage.
Drain the fuel system and put the fresh gas in.
HTH
Good Day.

Sounds like a bad diaphragm in the carburetor.

Jim

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The problem is that the gas that sat in the carb all winter glazed it over and gummed it up. Begin by going to any auto parts store, like an aiutozone, and getting a bottle of carb. cleaner. Seafoam is one I use. Add it to your gas, one ounce per gallon of gas. Also, pick up a can of engine starting spray.

Remove the air filter and spray the engine starting spray into the air intake. Pull start the engine and give it additional squirts of engine starting spray until it runs smoothly.