One year of use on a newly built home with 2 acres of old ranch land on the border of 8/9 zones. Full disclosure I did not forget to sharpen or replace them just wanted to wait and replace them after getting most of the acreage level enough to mow decently without randomly hitting anything.
by Strykfirst
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How do you sharpen them
Hardware stores, small engine repair shops, etc usually do blade sharpening and balancing
I am curious about the semi-circular sections on the trailing edges of the blades. My JD lawn tractor doesn’t have them. Do they have a specific purpose?
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Mower’s about ten years old now; I guess it’s time.
I put a grinding blade on my angle grinder, it takes maybe ninety seconds to sharpen the mower blade. It’s not going to get it kitchen-knife sharp and it’s a little more wear on the blade than a professional job would be, but it’s worth it for how easy and fast it is.
Before I realized I could use an angle grinder I was sharpening it with the same stone I use on my knives, and it took an absurd amount of time.
Lol. I have the world’s greatest mower….. she’s about 5’3″ brown hair and absolutely knows that whatever she thinks is right! She KNOWS that you don’t have to pick up branches and dog bones. Thank God we don’t have any rocks here. I rarely need to sharpen blades because she destroys them so fast. She also MUST have a battery powered mower. Yeh, they have plastic Cowlngs. So 2x a year I replace the blade and every 2 yr replaced the cowling.
Gets her aggressive tendencies tired out and it’s cheaper than having her work on fixing ME!
Remember, you don’t cut grass, you atomize it.
Did mine today, feels good fam
https://preview.redd.it/8c4zsv7ued4f1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8f060f9abe10b53ef1df5bbbb3d1e0423bcb148
This was my attempt at sharpening with the angry grinder, it’s not great, but the blade was completely blunt beforehand.
It’s amazing how much better my mower went through grass after getting a lot of rain. Usually it would have struggled a little bit but after sharpening it just tore through it